Sturgeonland

[Mason89]

If you’ve got evidence of any wrongdoing, you should inform the police. It looks like they could use a hand.

[Red Zone]

New auditors appointed no doubt with a risk-based fee uplift.

A Manchester based firm with no presence in Scotland. Presumably no Scottish firm had ahem staff free to do the audit

[Basingstokered]

Only 1 person could get those books to balance Diane Abbott.

[Donanddusted]

Only 1 person could get those books to balance Diane Abbott.

Or they could ask Liz Truss.
With her financial nous she could go far in some party.

[InversneckieDob]

I acknowledge that. However, I take issue with the fact that a select few on here seem to be of the view that a certain Scottish Political Party can do whatever it wants, with impunity. In addition, when things evidently do go wrong, they invariably then seek to do a comparative assessment of these shortcomings with the perceived failings of other Parties, as if to mitigate these shortcomings.

I really have littke skin in the game.
Yes, I vote SNP(now) but that's driven by a desire to get Scotland out from under Westminster.
Why I hear you shout?
Well, I see Westminster, no matter where I put my cross, no matter what my constituency does, no matter what my country does, for the rest of my days on this earth electing populist, reactionary, ideology free (beyond a basic "free market good, state bad" ladybird for right wingers ethos) shysters.

How has the SNP performed in government?

Curates egg for me, by necessity in terms of a theoretically ethical interventionist party chasing their original single objective.

I cling to a hope that an independent nation of five million could evolve into a grown up, compassionate democracy.
With grown up compassionate politicians.

A pipe dream?
Maybe.
But it beats seven shades of sh1t out of the alternative/status quo.

[Basingstokered]

Or they could ask Liz Truss.
With her financial nous she could go far in some party.

She’d be able to do their books given that prior to getting into politics she was a chartered accountant.

[Mason89]

She’d be able to do their books given that prior to getting into politics she was a chartered accountant.

Did you miss her time in charge?

[Donanddusted]

She’d be able to do their books given that prior to getting into politics she was a chartered accountant.

Yes. She'd be a dab hand.
I don't think she can even count the number of fingers on her hands.

She was also a Lib Dem before a Tory as well. Does that help her?

Some conversion that.

It's like Jar Jar Binks telling you, "Yousa don't know the power of the Dark Side!

[Mason89]

She was also a Lib Dem before a Tory as well. Does that help her?

Some conversion that.

A path well travelled that one


‘Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others’

[57vintage]

If media reports are true, fair play to the FM for making what looks like an honest re-appraisal of policy and making more appealing noises about personal tax, and the fundamentally-flawed National Care Service (who the fûck would have put a mouth-breather like Kevin Stewart in charge of that?????), among other schemes he’s inherited. Words, though. Let’s see the beef/tofu.