The End of the Road for SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon, after an attempt to suppress Alex Salmond's evidence by the Crown Office provokes outrage, the Crown Office is ordered to release evidence of the Alex Salmond 'conspiracy' by Holyrood using their powers to compel, as matters develop, are we seeing possible suspension of the Scottish Government, and an official UK Government investigation, Sturgeon appeared to think she was answerable to no one, is she in for a rude wake-up call in the very near future, Holyrood election 2021 must be postponed

Dear All 

First up, the last two months have been a bit hectic for me. In a previous blog post, I expressed the need to take some time off away from activism, mainly because I had other things which I wanted to crack on with. One of them was updating my skills, to get my cgi projects back on the go, the second was a personal matter, well personal to me at least. Just as I was just about to step back, I was head hunted to the campaign of former Labour MP Paul Sweeney. As some people know, I did both his Westminster campaigns of 2017 and 2019, one was successful and in the other he was squeezed out by the national swing of the SNP. The 2019 campaign was a physical nightmare for me, in fact, it was the hardest campaign I ever fought due to health problems, that one nearly wrecked me. I started the campaign late because I was recovering from an operation, I left the campaign early because I had to get another operation. And the bit in the middle was just agony, even something as simple as getting in and out of a vehicle was awful. 

The second item that popped up was my involvement in an admin task running a process which slightly overlapped the campaign to get Paul Sweeney a high place on the Glasgow list. This was a real learning curve for me because when you have no experience and no training, and the handbook doesn't tell you what to do and when, you feel rather adrift. Add to that your liaison goes on unexpectedly holiday, you have very much that floating in the Atlantic ocean, no land in sight. Adrift with other survivors who expect you to build a new ship that floats and get everyone to safe harbour. I can't tell you about the specific admin task I was involved with because it is still ongoing, however, my part came to a successful conclusion based on the rules and principles of due process. 

Now, let's back to scandal, and as scandals go, the Alex Salmond scandal probably is the most toxic and nasty that has ever been seen both side of the Scottish border in the last 20 years. I struggle to think of something nastier. We have had the Natalie McGarry criminal trial, a close pal of Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf. We have had the Mark McDonald scandal which is now possibly seen as an injustice by some. We have had the John Swinney scandal of the SNP sexualisation of children, teaching kids with a big banana and Nutella, the correct way to shag someone up the arse. We have had the Derek MacKay scandal, Mackay, the Lgbt heir to Sturgeon, who sent 270 text messages to a 16 year old boy who he thought was cute and had nice hair. People called out Derek Mackay for allegedly grooming this young boy, and people speculated on what Mackay's endgame was for the boy. Did the homosexual SNP Finance Minister Derek Mackay, in his 40's want to ride a 16 year old boy's ass? We know that Derek Mackay is still living even although he doesn't turn up for work as am MSP because he still puts in expenses claims. Whether he claims for bananas and Nutella is anyone's guess! 

That said, these scandal, all pale into insignificance when you read and understand the Alex Salmond scandal. Alex Salmond has stated that he was a victim of an operation to damage him and imprison him, and he is not talking in a general sense of 'the bastards are out to get me'. 

This next part is from Alex Salmond's submission: 

"My position that the evidence supports a deliberate, prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish Government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned. That includes, for the avoidance of doubt, Peter Murrell (Chief Executive), Ian McCann (Compliance officer) and Sue Ruddick (Chief Operating Officer) of the SNP
together with Liz Lloyd, the First Minister’s Chief of Staff. There are others who, for legal reasons, I am not allowed to name."

These people aren't minor players in the SNP, they control everything along with Nicola Sturgeon. Here is Alex Salmond, not only naming these bastards, and that is what they are, they are bastards but also saying they were actively in attempting to imprison him. Alex Salmond was found to be innocent by a jury made up of mainly of women. And let's be straight women can see through shite quite easily and they aren't slow to speak up. In any conspiracy, they are weak links, and that includes this bunch named by Salmond. To me, the weak links of the group named to allegedly imprison him are Ian McCann, he is the SNP Compliance officer, who also ignore members' complaints and Sue Ruddick. I can see Murrell and Lloyd going down with the sinking sink, but if the ante was raised to possible prison time, well who knows about Liz Lloyd. As a Geordie, she may not find time in a Scottish women's prison to her taste. One thing about the conspiracy to jail Alex Salmond is that finally Westminster is starting to realise that there is a major problem in Scotland. 

The problem is, the SNP Government is corrupt, the Scottish Crown Office is corrupt and the Scottish parliament has been compromised. For some reason which I can only assume is linked to either, madness, arrogance or contempt, Team Sturgeon has wrong thought that they are answerable to no one. I think they convinced themselves that they could pull off whatever diseased shit they fancied and there wouldn't be consequences. If you happened to have sailed past twitter today, you might have caught an intervention by Conservative MP,  Liam Fox.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIXC6a2O0bg  

That is quite interesting as things go, do you how an explosion works? Firstly, there is a thing called pre-detonation. The small explosion just prior to the big bang, has Liam Fox just delivered a pro-detonation before Westminster drops the nuclear bomb in Scotland? Many people have been contacting Ministers of the UK Government to express concern and asking for official investigation into the Scottish Government, the SNP and the Crown Office. Couple of other interest people also caught my eye, Jim Sillars who gave an interview telling people not to vote SNP because of what he described as 'highly dubious' people in the higher echelons of the SNP. But, the guy who really peaked my interest and yours too is Paul Lever. Your first thought was who is Paul Lever?  Paul Lever is a Former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. Former British Ambassador to Germany. Author of Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way. 

He said: 

"Most of us in England don't follow Scottish politics closely. But the stories in today's press about Salmond/Sturgeon and the trolling of Charles Kennedy suggest that the Scottish National Party is a pretty nasty outfit; and that the governance of Scotland is a mess." 

Nicola Sturgeon and her little band thought that there was no such thing as 'oversight' on them. I am now beginning to suspect that Sturgeon is now going to find out different. Personally, I favour suspension of the Scottish Government, removal of the Lord Advocate, anyone under investigation has their government and parliamentary security passes revoked with immediate effect. Control of Scottish Government transferred to the Scottish Secretary, and the SNP HQ and the homes of all persons of interest searched under warrant, all phones, and electronic devices confiscated for forensic examinations. The SNP under Sturgeon have been living a delusion that they can do what they like, and get away with it. I further suspect that this particular belief has no foundation on which to risk your career and liberty. 

After a feeble SNP coordinated attempt to have Salmond's submission removed by what seemed to be female SNP press officers who work for SNP MSPs. We had the Crown Office step into pull that Alex Salmond submission from the Holyrood website. The bogus claim used was that the submission could identify complainers. There you have two instances one, a shabby deception trick, which Wings over Scotland called out the SNP women as "liars". And the utterly corrupt Crown Office acting out with their remit to suppress the truth in order to protect Nicola Sturgeon. A Court of Law, Lady Dorrian has already made plain that evidence can from Alex Salmond can be produced as long as it conforms to the Court order protecting the 'alphabet women'. You should take the time to read the Wing's post on the SNP Press officers trying to bury the truth, 8 of the 'spontaneous' tweets all with more or less the same identical wording appeared within a 6 minute window around 3 pm on 22 February. 

https://wingsoverscotland.com/a-litany-of-liars/   

To add a little humour, 3 in a bed, SNP MP Angus MacNeil took to twitter to call out, and say that the Scottish Prosecution service “looks crooked” following their censoring of Alex Salmond’s evidence which accuses Nicola Sturgeon of breaking the ministerial code. It isn't a case of looking crooked, they are crooked. We factually know this when the Crown Office ran a malicious prosecution of people connected to Rangers FC. You may also remember that I blogged on the Cadder Case which was removal of human rights by the Crown Office and people's rights replaced by 'gifts'. I wrote this blog post circa 10 years ago. 

http://glasgowunihumanrights.blogspot.com/2010/10/peoples-champion-peter-cadder-no-law.html  

Apparently since his own experience of being 'stitched up', it has led Alex Salmond to the conclusion that he should have spent more time keeping his eye on the ball as First Minister. What happened to the Crown Office after the UK Supreme Court ruled on the 'Cadder Case', well basically nothing, the same human rights deniers just kept working. Imagine, the very people who we place absolute trust, and it has to be absolute, couldn't work out they were acting illegally. Think about that for a moment, and think about what type of culture and ethos must be floating around that organisation back in 2010. So corruption wasn't just a new thing which sprang to life under the Salmond scandal. It raises the issue of why wasn't the then SNP Justice Sec on top of this breach, and ensuring it was fixed? What was going on was patently wrong, you cannot replace human rights with the Crown Office regulations, even a first year law student could drive a coach and horses through that weak argument. 

After the Crown Office attempt to suppress evidence which frighten the parliament, it seems that Scotland's prosecution service is being ordered to release material Alex Salmond claims will show he was the victim of a high-level plot to destroy him. The Holyrood inquiry into the Salmond scandal is relying on its use of the parliament’s power to compel the production of documents held by the Crown Office. I personally don't think that Nicola Sturgeon has grasped the fact that it's too late to continue this cover up. I will be blunt, Sturgeon is fucked, fucked all roads, no going back, no escape possible, no one to chuck under the bus to save herself. What is incredible about all the twists and turns of refusing Salmond a candidacy was instead of a complicated scheme with too many working parts, involving too many people, costing too much time and money, all she needed to do would be to rig a selection panel. Is it that simple you may ask, well, yes, because the panel can use subjective opinion. Of course, it would be a tad embarrassing to sideline Salmond, but in retrospect, all the blame could have been foster onto a small group of people who would have been arm's length from the leadership.  

Now, we have MSPs wanting to see all the correspondence it holds between three senior SNP officials, including Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, and the First Minister’s top Government aide, Liz Lloyd. Already the inquiry has used its powers to obtain text and WhatsApp messages obtained by Mr Salmond’s defence team for his criminal trial. Messages that don't look good for Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell. His explanation to the Inquiry reading what he wrote, I found less than convincing.  

What we do know is Alex Salmond has claimed the Crown Office has been holding back evidence which he says supports his claim of a high-level plot by SNP figures to ruin and even jail him. He further claims the Crown Office has acted in this way to shield "some of the most powerful people in the country". The interesting part, well everything is interesting and there is so much of it but Salmond singled out Ms Sturgeon’s husband, the SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, the party’s chief operating officer Susan Ruddick, its compliance officer Ian McCann, and Ms Sturgeon’s chief of staff Liz Lloyd as important to what happened against him. It has been alleged that the SNP staffers were sent out to 'find' people, and we are talking women to testify against Alex Salmond. This sounds rather odd, and it sounds rather sinister, why would SNP staffers be sent out like this? 

Well, I would suggest it was to do with credibility, you see the 'alphabet women' all come from a very close group around Nicola Sturgeon. 

If additional women could have been found with no connection to Team Sturgeon, then it would have bolstered their efforts in the criminal trial to imprison Salmond. I have met Salmond, many times while campaigning, he treated people who turned at events well. He was what you would expect a leader to be, open, approachable and friendly. If he had ever done anything even remotely odd, it would have been noticed, and importantly commented on. Salmond loved campaigning, he loved being among the rank and file, he loved being on the doorstep. I am not a fan of Alex Salmond, I think that is widely known as my indy posts show, however, I would never see him denied his rights, or remain silent if he was railroaded by an unfair process or attempt to have him falsely imprisoned. It takes a real sick and depraved character to do that. I am convinced from what I have read that that Alex Salmond was the victim of a conspiracy, I am convinced the Scottish Government is corrupted beyond the elected politicians, I am convinced the Crown Office is corrupt and needs new leadership. 

Finally, watch the Lord Advocate refuse to answer questions at Holyrood when he appeared to make a statement. Listen to his replies, look at his demeanour, listen to his tone. I would fire his arse, he isn't a stupid man and as a former Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, he must be aware what he is doing. I think his appearance should also form part of the basis why there has to be formal investigation by the UK Government. This needs to come quickly, the Holyrood election of 2021 should also be suspended until September by the UK Government. There is a saying, if so many people say you are drunk, you need to sit your arse down. In this case, so many people are saying the Scottish Government is corrupt, this government needs to be suspended. 

Yours sincerely 

George Laird                                                                                                                                The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University