Wings Over Scotland

Ain’t it funny how things change? Then, and now. (Click pic to enlarge.) Scottish politics: where repeated catastrophic failure is just another way to succeed. Tags: and firstly Category comment, scottish politics Trackback: trackback from your own site.

Yesterday’s edition of the Sunday National ran this guff: And as we often are, we were put in mind of the greatest politics book ever written. We’d really need to quote a much longer section to fully convey the point – ideally just read all of the piece linked above – but this passage will suffice for general purposes: “What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself.

It’s now more than three years since this site drew attention to the curious case of Progress Scotland, the zombie “polling company” run by the SNP’s Angus Robertson that had no employees and hadn’t published any polls since October 2020, but was apparently still accepting, and soliciting, donations from subscribers, and appeared to have disposed of a rather large amount of money (well into six figures) without producing anything to show for it.

It’s been another fabulous day in the headlines for Nicola Sturgeon. The stories were triggered by a from Tory MP Sir David Davis, which you can watch below. (It was meant to be a much longer speech, but Davis had to truncate it on the hoof from 10 minutes to four after his speaking time was cut.) Sturgeon’s response – issued through her yappy little Scrappy-Doo lapdog Aamer Anwar but written in the first person – was to lash out in blind fury.

A Matter Of Declinature Our solicitor has this afternoon written to the Deputy Chief Constable. We’ll await his response with interest. Category corruption, investigation, scottish politics Trackback: trackback from your own site.

The Invisible Rabbit Further to Monday’s letter from the Deputy Chief Constable, we’ve submitted the following Freedom Of Information request to Police Scotland. ———————————————————————- This week I received a letter from DCC Stuart Houston. It notes in part: “During this time, Police Scotland utilised financial investigators, financial analysts and a forensic accountant to fully investigate the circumstances surrounding reported irregularities.

Blue In The Face Before we start, let’s note that this took 37 days. As you’re about to read, it says almost nothing other than “Please go away now”. It takes quite a long time to say it, but nevertheless those four words are pretty much the sum total of the actual content. It does not in any way whatsoever address the contents of our letter of 6 June, of which the below is an extract. DCC Houston does say one intriguing thing, though.

Six weeks ago, Nicola Sturgeon said this: Today, on her behalf, her perpetually furious lawyer said this: So she was lying. Imagine literally nobody’s surprise. “I have nothing to hide, but I’m going to hide it anyway” is flawlessly in character.

Step One Today’s Sunday Mail leads for the second week in a row on questions about the finances of Yes Scotland. But there’s a paragraph in the online version of the story that doesn’t make the print edition, and it’s a shame, because it’s a very telling one.

It just takes a beat Looks like we turned that round pretty fast, gang. Six weeks ago: And today: Amazing what a draft document and a KC opinion can do, eh? A casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that the SNP was absolutely cold-sweat desperate to avoid a civil case that would set a powerful precedent for a legal prosecution. On that subject, incidentally, things are getting interesting.