Nicola Sturgeon's time is up

[Sue]

Sure I must've mentioned this at some point before, but my fucking mental anti-vax housemate is a Fabian, he gets the Fabian Review delivered and everything. I have no idea why, since I can't see how Fabianism fits with the rest of his worldview (pro-Putin, thinks January 6th was a false flag to make Trump look bad, the lost city of Atlantis had super advanced technology, etc etc), I suppose it's just another one of those things that aren't super logically consistent.

So sounds like I've not missed out by not knowing any...

 

[hitmouse]

So sounds like I've not missed out by not knowing any...

I mean, I would say that I don't think my housemate is a representative sample, but then on the other hand if no-one else has ever met any Fabians then maybe he is?

 

[Dom Traynor]

I mean, I would say that I don't think my housemate is a representative sample, but then on the other hand if no-one else has ever met any Fabians then maybe he is?

I have met a few Fabians in the UK and used to know the Deputy Gen Sec quite well. They are mostly fairly dull Brownites (as in Gordon). So I suspect your housemate is indeed an outlier.

 

[danny la rouge]

I have met a few Fabians in the UK and used to know the Deputy Gen Sec quite well. They are mostly fairly dull Brownites (as in Gordon). So I suspect your housemate is indeed an outlier.

Although back in the beginning, they did indeed attract spiritualists and eugenicists and crystal-wielding seance attendees.

 

[gosub]

Not that fussed about the RV, after all, if SNP supporters wanted to subsidise what NS and her husband did in their recreational time that's down to them...Ferries though that's a different matter that's tax payers money spent first on iffy contracts and now on the MoD

 

[Pickman's model]

Although back in the beginning, they did indeed attract spiritualists and eugenicists and crystal-wielding seance attendees.

Think about the poor spiritualists etc who found fabians among their ranks

 

[Sue]

Although back in the beginning, they did indeed attract spiritualists and eugenicists and crystal-wielding seance attendees.

Think about the poor spiritualists etc who found fabians among their ranks

Yes, for all their flaws*, they sound more interesting than the well-meaning liberal Labour Fabian types.

* Okay, admittedly pretty big flaws...

 

[equationgirl]

Although back in the beginning, they did indeed attract spiritualists and eugenicists and crystal-wielding seance attendees.

And middle class do-gooders who would lecture those in poverty, don't forget them.

 

[equationgirl]

Not that fussed about the RV, after all, if SNP supporters wanted to subsidise what NS and her husband did in their recreational time that's down to them...Ferries though that's a different matter that's tax payers money spent first on iffy contracts and now on the MoD

It wasn't used for roaming the Highlands as a comfortable place to eat teacakes and sleep by the edge of loch Ness as best I can tell, it was bought by someone in the SNP as a mobile constituency office/safe meeting place during the pandemic so that SNP politicians (possibly more than just the FM, but again unclear) could campaign around Scotland.

 

[gosub]

It wasn't used for roaming the Highlands as a comfortable place to eat teacakes and sleep by the edge of loch Ness as best I can tell, it was bought by someone in the SNP as a mobile constituency office/safe meeting place during the pandemic so that SNP politicians (possibly more than just the FM, but again unclear) could campaign around Scotland.

According to people who raged that the finances were fine whilst their auditors were quietly distancing themselves from them.

That is the trouble with smaller / cheaper recreational vehicles ...barely room to put down a paper shredder

 

[equationgirl]

According to people who raged that the finances were fine whilst their auditors were quietly distancing themselves from them.

That is the trouble with smaller / cheaper recreational vehicles ...barely room to put down a paper shredder

If it was being used recreationally I doubt it would have been parked halfway across the country from where Nicola Sturgeon lives.

 

[danny la rouge]

Bill Ramsay threatens to quit the NEC unless forensic auditors appointed. SNP facing possible Westminster bye election if Margaret Ferrier forced out of Commons.

SNP ruling body orders governance and transparency review

Party leader Humza Yousaf says it will involve external input and may feature "forensic auditors".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[equationgirl]

Oh dear it's all gone a bit sideways really.

 

[pogofish]

Christ. They’d make Stalin blush.

Nah - as the head of Rabkrin, Stalin WAS the party auditor.

Now that's how to do it properly..!

 

[Wilf]

Even at £110,000, It's quite an Alan Partridge thing to fall apart over a campervan.

 

[equationgirl]

Even at £110,000, It's quite an Alan Partridge thing to fall apart over a campervan.

That's the brand new price. If it's in the accounts, and the only item in the motor vehicles item, it's value is just under £81k.

But yes, very Alan partridge.

 

[equationgirl]

This just up on the BBC website:

SNP ruling body orders governance and transparency review

Party leader Humza Yousaf says it will involve external input and may feature "forensic auditors".

www.bbc.co.uk

They need to get a wriggle on and hire not just auditor's but forensic auditors as a matter of urgency. They ideally should look to one of the Big 6 firms to avoid ( or at least minimise) credibility issues.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i'm thinking about putting a team and bid together

 

[danny la rouge]

This just up on the BBC website:

SNP ruling body orders governance and transparency review

Party leader Humza Yousaf says it will involve external input and may feature "forensic auditors".

www.bbc.co.uk

They need to get a wriggle on and hire not just auditor's but forensic auditors as a matter of urgency. They ideally should look to one of the Big 6 firms to avoid ( or at least minimise) credibility issues.

I think the credibility issues are well fucked.

Cops probing Nicola Sturgeon over claims she blocked scrutiny of SNP finances

Emails claim the former first minister blocked the appointment of a fundraising manager who would have looked at the donations coming in.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

It’s a shit show and the SNP seems paralysed.

 

[gosub]

If it was being used recreationally I doubt it would have been parked halfway across the country from where Nicola Sturgeon lives.

Surely f NS' elderly mother in law was safe guarding the SNP's RV in a professional capacity there will be an invoice?

 

[danny la rouge]

Surely f NS' elderly mother in law was safe guarding the SNP's RV in a professional capacity there will be an invoice?

 

[equationgirl]

Surely f NS' elderly mother in law was safe guarding the SNP's RV in a professional capacity there will be an invoice?

I never said she was safeguarding it, professionally or otherwise.i pointed out how far away from the Sturgeon/Murrell residence it was being kept and thus unlikely used recreationally.

I don't know why it was parked up in Dunfermline.

 

[gosub]

That's the brand new price. If it's in the accounts, and the only item in the motor vehicles item, it's value is just under £81k.

But yes, very Alan partridge.

Have you seen the size of the thing? It's more Walter White than Alan Partridge.

 

[danny la rouge]

Things are not going well…

Leaked video shows Nicola Sturgeon knocking back concerns about SNP finances

The former First Minister warns her officials to be “very careful” about suggesting there was “any problems” with the accounts.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

 

[danny la rouge]

The interesting thing is that somebody made this video two years ago. I know this was in the wake of the Salmond thing, but it would seem the wheels have been coming off for a long time.

 

[gosub]

The interesting thing is that somebody made this video two years ago. I know this was in the wake of the Salmond thing, but it would seem the wheels have been coming off for a long time.

Maybe the elderly mother in law was doing maintenance

 

[equationgirl]

Have you seen the size of the thing? It's more Walter White than Alan Partridge.

Probably difficult to find reasonably priced parking for something that big close to SNP HQ. The Old Town isn't exactly designed for large vehicles.

 

[danny la rouge]

Probably difficult to find reasonably priced parking for something that big close to SNP HQ. The Old Town isn't exactly designed for large vehicles.

Dunfermline isn’t far from Edinburgh, across the Forth Bridge. It’s a perfectly plausible place to keep a campaign van. Closer than Uddingston.

I don’t know what part the van plays in whatever case the cops are trying to build.

 

[A380]

…

Ditto with solicitors, no one needs them, when a basic understanding of the magna carta and maritime law will ensure you'll always get off in court.

Only if the copper wasn’t wearing his hat…

 

[gosub]

Probably difficult to find reasonably priced parking for something that big close to SNP HQ. The Old Town isn't exactly designed for large vehicles.

Suppose they couldn't park it on their own driveway cos of the large tent the police had put up there.

What is it with the Scots and camping? Have none of these people heard of bothies?