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These Islands is a forum for debate standing unabashedly for the view that more unites the people of the United Kingdom than divides them.

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Sam Taylor
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Shame a bit more critical thought wasn’t applied in some places - or by some Chiefs of Staff
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Dear god. The SNP’s Patricia Gibson uses her maiden speech to repeat the fake statistic that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s offshore wind resource.
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Sturgeon wants us to believe that she was incapable of reading a balance sheet - the published SNP accounts showed indisputably that the money had gone missing. Now maybe Sturgeon really couldn’t read a balance sheet - but what about Swinney? He cannot credibly use that excuse.
Hannah Brown@HannahMargBrown

Nicola Sturgeon says she was “deceived” and “let down” by her “former husband” Peter Murrell which has caused her “acute pain”, in a statement. She reiterates in her statement she had “no knowledge or suspicion” that he was using SNP funds for personal purposes.

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“Anyone who asked questions was vilified as a traitor to the party, marginalised, bullied and intimidated.” Replace “party” with “Scotland” here, and anyone who has criticised (or even just questioned) the SNP will immediately recognise the behaviour Joanna Cherry is describing.
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Nicola Sturgeon claims to have been unaware of the existence of the motorhome. But it appeared on the balance sheet in the SNP accounts for 2021, published on 16th August 2022, when she was still leader of the party, and known to be paying very close attention to the accounts.
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Chris McCall@Dennynews

Nicola Sturgeon has released a further statement through her solicitor, Aamer Anwar. "In respect of any items I was aware of Peter having purchased, I had no reason to doubt that he had used his own money"

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The SNP is marinated in the idea that you can have lovely things without knowing, or even caring, who is paying for them. Peter Murrell is not really an aberration, but an example of taking that philosophy a step too far.
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Nicola Sturgeon’s bookcases were a familiar backdrop to her media appearances during Covid. Looks like they might have been paid for with stolen money (in part, at least).
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So… the SNP top brass cannot read financial statements, cannot evaluate evidence, and cannot tell the truth. The party must be mightily relieved that none of these frailties have infected its thinking on Scottish independence.
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When your political philosophy casts Scottish nationalists as good people and everyone else as traitors, this is what happens. John Swinney says he simply cannot get his head around the idea that someone involved with the SNP could be a wrong ’un.
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2/ John Swinney knows how to read a balance sheet. But nearly 3 years after those accounts were published, he was feigning bafflement that any money could possibly be missing. He may not have known where it had gone, but to pretend he didn’t know it had gone missing is untenable.
Sam Taylor@staylorish

Well… this is awkward. John Swinney speaking here on the Sunday Show on 30th May 2021. By this stage the SNP accounts proved that the money had gone missing and Swinney had clearly looked at those accounts. John Swinney was part of the cover up operation.

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1/ The infamous SNP crowdfunder raised £482k in 2017, to be ringfenced for a future referendum campaign. Yet by 31st December 2017, the SNP had just £8k of cash in the bank. This was fully public information, clearly displayed in the 2017 accounts, published on 21st August 2018.
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Well… this is awkward. John Swinney speaking here on the Sunday Show on 30th May 2021. By this stage the SNP accounts proved that the money had gone missing and Swinney had clearly looked at those accounts. John Swinney was part of the cover up operation.
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Gillian Mackay backs a price cap on food essentials despite tiny supermarket profit margins which have not risen over the last 20 years. “But they’ve not gone down either.” Actually, they have. Every major UK supermarket has a lower profit margin today than it did 20 years ago.
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Never forget: Nicola Sturgeon may not have been directly involved in the crime, but she went on TV and told blatant lies to cover up the fact that a crime had been committed. By this stage the published accounts had proved beyond any doubt that the money had indeed gone missing.
STV News@STVNews

Nicola Sturgeon has rejected allegations that £600,000 of SNP funds raised by activists has ‘gone missing’. bit.ly/3g17gJ2

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Pat Kane is a genius. The bond market has a “bias towards repayment”. An independent Scotland could get around this by forcing public sector workers to buy Scot Gov bonds with their pension savings. If that doesn’t persuade voters to support independence, I don’t know what will.
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Pat Kane@thoughtland

The sword of Damocles hanging over all democracies are the bond markets—unelected judges of a nation’s debt management. How would Scots Indy handle them? Might local council pension funds be better sources for investment? My @ScotNational column thenational.scot/politics/26135…

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Three cheers for that audience member. And deft moderation by @StephenJardine. “So wait a minute… we pay the supermarkets to lower their prices… is that what you’re suggesting?” An unusually entertaining and illuminating 90 seconds from last week’s #bbcdn
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With a fiscal deficit of ~£26 billion, an independent Scotland relying on “vast renewables wealth” to fund that deficit would need to build assets worth £1.3 trillion. That’s >6x Scotland’s GDP. ScotWind + INTOG, if all projects are built (v. unlikely), will cost ~£100 billion.
Sam Taylor@staylorish

Whenever someone cites Scotland’s “vast energy wealth”, remember this: a renewable resource is just an opportunity to borrow money at 5% to build an asset that yields 7% (provided nothing goes wrong). An okay business, but not a route to vast wealth, for shareholders or nations.

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Whenever someone cites Scotland’s “vast energy wealth”, remember this: a renewable resource is just an opportunity to borrow money at 5% to build an asset that yields 7% (provided nothing goes wrong). An okay business, but not a route to vast wealth, for shareholders or nations.
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1/ Dieter Helm on why renewables are not cheap, & the role of system costs. In Scotland, system costs are *enormous*, but socialised across all GB bill payers. With independence, Scottish bill payers would have to fully fund Scottish system costs - that’s what independence *is*.
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