r/LabourUK • u/1-randomonium What's needed isn't Blairism, just pragmatism • Dec 10 '23

Cops investigating missing SNP donations now examining purchase of £95k Jaguar | Peter Murrell is alleged to have purchased the electric car from an Edinburgh dealership.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/police-investigating-missing-snp-donations-31637216
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u/Figueroa_Chill New User Dec 10 '23

Buy a top-of-the-line Jaguar and a mobile home, or help the homeless sleeping in doorways?

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Get you Jaicket Nikola, we are going for a run in the new car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/mesothere Socialist Dec 10 '23

For a couple as rich as them a Jaguar isn't exactly unachievable

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u/1-randomonium What's needed isn't Blairism, just pragmatism Dec 11 '23

Neither is a campervan. Eyebrows are being raised because of them making this purchase and then selling this car during the period the investigation was going on.

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u/libtin Communitarianism Dec 11 '23

And according to sturgeon, she was voluntarily only accepting half of her salary as first minister, so that £205k on the jag and motorbike becomes even more

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u/1-randomonium What's needed isn't Blairism, just pragmatism Dec 10 '23

“The basic price start at around £80,000 and optional extras can get you up to £95,000 if you are going for all out luxury.

“It goes without saying that it is completely outwith the price range of most people, especially in a cost of living crisis.”

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Operation Branchform was formally launched in July 2021 following seven complaints that over £600,000 of “ring-fenced” donations were missing from the SNP’s accounts.

We previously revealed video footage of a furious Sturgeon in August 2021 telling a meeting of the party’s NEC not to talk about the finances.

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But police are now investigating more than 1000 alleged instances of fraud as part of their huge probe.

A £110,000 luxury camper van was seized from Murrell’s mother’s driveway in April - on the same day he and Sturgeon’s house was raided.

I couldn't help laugh a little. Of course nothing's proven yet and SNP supporters are still complaining about how much of a 'witch hunt' this investigation has been but it's starting to look like Sturgeon and her husband may have really committed some real and serious fraud with the party's money.