Sturgeon Arrested

The clear out continues. Boris Johnson was first to be forced out of the conservative party over ‘Partygate’ and now Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested (as a suspect) for claims of misspent SNP donations. Of course, Johnson has been, and will be if he stays quiet, spared the ignominy of being arrested. This would be too embarrassing for the Conservatives and could set an unwanted precedent of disciplining corrupt Prime Ministers.

Sturgeon and her husband, Peter Murrell, have both been arrested over allegations of misappropriating £600,000 in party donations for the independence campaign. Sturgeon had already left her post as First Minister in March this year. This ending her incumbency of 8 years begs the question was this a matter of jump before pushed?
She has said on record that this is not a reaction to “Short term pressures.” Could you really call an investigation that has been ongoing since 2021 short term? Her reaction proves once again her disdain to any challenge against her once heralded liberal fiefdom. Remember her flaunting her own covid regulations while berating Boris Johnson?
The party has released a statement professing that “all sums raised for independence campaigning will be spent on independence campaigning.” If you have been following Craig Murray’s Twitter feed, you would have seen his accusations were more than just corruption, but calls that Sturgeon was actively attempting to thwart Scottish independence. This we believe is a bit conspiratorial and not fully understanding the situation.
The truth is that, even with all their bluster, the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon fully understood that the ruling class would not let go of Scotland, who have been an important partner in British capitalism. The limitations of the SNP and its support base would never have offered the revolutionary strength it would take to remove Scotland from the British ruling class.
Her threat to British capitalism was non-existent. Her battles were for concessions that would help paper over the cracks of the SNP’s failures in devolved Scotland. She presided over severe degradation in NHS services and education. In a time when welfare reforms are being clawed back, being at the bottom of the pile, as Scotland is, is not a good place to be.
The heavily controlled British media has always allowed her plenty of opportunity to vent her spleen over whatever gripe she had at the time.

The left has idolised Sturgeon for these pantomime battles with the ruling party and her castigating of Boris Johnson, particularly during covid. Her implantation of draconian regulations during the pandemic had her applauded by the liberal left, but in fact her decisions created a covid border that was patrolled by Scottish nationalists in face masks screaming at any Englishman who dared to cross.

Appropriating party funds for personal gain in whatever form is not new and very rarely penalised, so to see this investigation bear fruit with such a well-known figure as Sturgeon is proof that, like Johnson, she has served her time and her usefulness to the ruling class is finished.
If she is sent to prison perhaps then she could tell us what a woman is?