This has been two years in the making. And what a shame the news didn’t come a couple of months sooner, like, before the recent local elections that brought the Scottish National Party (SNP) surging back into prominence.
The seats lost to Labour in the previous 2024 round, which had happened to the ever-dominant SNP, had been a response to the tenure of one Nicola Sturgeon, the so-dubbed’ Tiny Tyrant,’ who’d been Scotland’s First Minister, aggravated by her disastrous follow-on First Minister, one flaming authoritarian racist by the name of Humza Yousef.
That one-two punch knocked SNP out of their perpetual driver’s seat at Holyrood into a coalition arrangement. The Labour Party was gloating over the 36 seats they’d won away from the SNP. But, thanks to the buffoonish and malevolent performance of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the vast majority of Labour seats were just as swiftly lost this month, and now, even worse, their second-place standing will be shared with knuckle-dragging usurpers from Reform UK.
But back to Sturgeon.
She was the head of the SNP and served as Scottish First Minister for eight years. Besides championing an ill-fated referendum on Scottish independence, in that time she tried mightily to impose her Davos and World Economic Forum vision on the Scottish people. Nothing was off the table.
Everything from windmills to transgender rights to imposing walkable cities to phasing out fossil fuels completely was legislated and slammed through on Sturgeon’s watch.
She earned her tyrant moniker honestly before she suddenly stepped down in February of 2023.
There were some rumors that it might have to do with something as unsavory as a crime, as the police were spotted visiting her home and reportedly looking into her husband’s affairs.
It really was kind of embarrassing – they even dug through the garden at the couple’s home.
There had been quite a large SNP fund, it was said, that was earmarked specifically for the independence measure, and quite a bit of the money had no explanation for where it had gone to. Sturgeon’s hubby, Peter Murrell, had been the SNP’s chief executive at the time, and he was subsequently arrested as the investigation slowly crept on.
Och, said the wee nippy. It’s nothing.
Sturgeon: “Money hasn’t gone missing”.
SNP finances as solid as their financial case for independence 🤣 pic.twitter.com/Jd6Ye2QFyr
— Russell Findlay (@RussellFindlay1) May 25, 2026
Welp.
Turns out the dogged fiscal bloodhounds had their man, even if it took a while.
Mr. Murrell was, indeed, the fellow who lifted the booty and by the wheelbarrow full apparently.
This is quite a headline.
The SNP isn’t a political party, it’s a cult. Sturgeon’s thieving husband proves it
The embezzlement scandal says a great deal about the sense of entitlement the nationalists feel towards their grip on power
If the aim of the SNP was to make Scotland feel like a foreign country, where things are done differently, then they can consider their mission to have been well and truly accomplished. The party’s former chief executive, Peter Murrell, pleaded guilty yesterday to embezzling more than £400,000 of SNP funds.
We now know he spent it on a shopping spree involving hundreds of items, including jewellery, cosmetics, a £125,000 camper van which he parked on his mother’s driveway in Dunfermline, Fife, and a top-of-the-range Jaguar i-Pace car.
This would be eyebrow-raising enough even without Murrell’s estranged wife, Nicola Sturgeon, (the former first minister of Scotland and his boss as leader of the SNP) claiming that she knew nothing whatever about her husband’s activities.
Observers, especially married ones, will find such claims stretching credibility. How often is the purchase of Lalique salt-and-pepper grinders worth £2,600 and Fortnum & Mason advent calendars costing £200 each not challenged or even noticed by the buyer’s spouse? That some of the items on Murrell’s wish-list were ordered to be sent to the homes of Sturgeon’s parents and sister in Ayrshire presents another question mark over her claim to have been unaware.
Ms Sturgeon, for her part, is wrapped in Sgt Schulz’s blanket of blankness – she knows nuzzink.
…It is one thing to claim to have been unaware that your husband was spending way beyond his means on items of jewellery, motor vehicles and cosmetics; it is quite another to do so amid media reports about funds missing from the party of which your husband happens to be chief executive.
…which strains credulity when one considers previous Sturgeon statements in light of this revelation.
ZIPPERED LIPS DON’T SINK SHIPS
LEAK: old footage shows Nicola Sturgeon told her party to “be very careful about suggestions that there are problems with the party’s finances”
She goes on to say there has been “good, quality, detailed financial information” about their finances.@Daily_Record pic.twitter.com/78p9Aj7L5P
— Alex Armstrong (@Alexarmstrong) May 26, 2026
I guess we’re just hateful for wondering how she didn’t notice what anyone else’s wife would have noticed.
Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law’s drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he’s got himself a part time job I’m too busy to ask about.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 25, 2026
Perhaps Sturgeon believes in the wish fairy. It is Scotland, after all.
Does anyone really believe Nicola Sturgeon had no idea what her thieving husband was up to? pic.twitter.com/Whd7fcdkD9
— Scottish Conservatives (@ScotTories) May 26, 2026
There are other questions arising from this awkward moment in SNP ignominy, causing some trouble for party leader John Swinney. The same Swinney was just recently seen gloating about his return to prominence thanks to those local election results.
Ah, yes – those.
It turns out that the light-fingered Mr. Murrell was scheduled to plead to the theft back in FEBRUARY.
But the date was conveniently rescheduled for almost three weeks after the local elections on May 7.
John Swinney was left raging at claims that Peter Murrell’s court date delay from February until after the Holyrood election gave the SNP a “political advantage.” He was originally due to enter a plea on February 20 but this was moved to May 25, with the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service (SCTS) refusing to say why.
A statement at the time said: “The court, having granted an application, has discharged the preliminary hearing scheduled for February 20 under Section 75A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.”
In the run-up to the original date, extensive details from the indictment were published by the Scottish Sun and then repeated by other outlets, including the SNP. At the rescheduled court hearing, which took place three weeks after Scots went to the polls, the former SNP chief executive pled guilty to embezzling £400k from his party and was remanded in custody.
Some critics believe that if the case had gone ahead on the original date, it would have damaged Mr Swinney in the polls. Calls have been made for SCTS to come clean about the reasons for the postponement – and for the Crown Office to explain why Nicola Sturgeon was not also charged in connection with Operation Branchform.
Well…huh.
I’m sure it’s just all a coincidence.
Mr. Swinney, the election victor, in true progressive fashion, is the ‘victim’ in this shuffle-the-deck backroom deal.
…He refused to back calls for the Crown Office and SCTS to publish details about the case while again insisting the SNP were “victims” and that only Murrell was to blame for what happened, and not the figures within the party who ignored concerns raised about finances, such Kirsten Oswald and Alex Kerr. The former is now the victims minister and the latter is a backbench SNP MSP.
Pretty sure it’s just a coincidence?
Mr. Swinney said HOW DARE YOU question the judges!
DO NOT DABBLE WITH IT
…And Scottish Tory MSP Stephen Kerr grilled Mr Swinney on why the Murrell case was delayed. He said: “One of the most damning aspects of all this is that Nicola Sturgeon claimed to be co-operating with a police investigation, but her reply to every question was no comment.
…”Does the First Minister have any self-awareness about how all of this looks to the people of Scotland? And one of the things that sticks in the throats of a lot of people is that the trial was supposed to take place before the election, but was mysteriously postponed to a date after the election.
“There is undoubtedly a political advantage to the SNP because of that postponement, so why was the hearing postponed, and who authorised the date change of the proceedings?’
Mr Swinney didn’t answer the question and instead accused Mr Kerr of “pointing the finger at judges exercising their judicial independence” and of not “respecting” them. He claimed he would “defend this to his last breath” and warned his rival not to “dabble with it.”
Okay.
Ain’t no way it was.
Might have even been…what’s that word?
Oh, yeah – ‘rigged.’
Rig-adoon sounds so Scottish. It works.
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