THE SNP - Once again a focus for scandal - the Peter Murrell episode.

 THE SNP - Once again a focus for scandal : - the Peter Murrell episode.

How Many Times Do We Have To Say It?

Many times British Movement Scotland has put out articles on the BM Scotland blog slagging off the SNP as a political party, denouncing the SNP as the leading party of Scotland's devolved government at Holyrood, listing time and again the SNP failings, the failures of SNP ministers, First Ministers and MSP's.

Now finally the former chief executive Peter Murrell has answered to the courts for his part in internal SNP corruption. But why has it taken so long?

Why was this put back until conveniently the May elections had taken place, because the headlines below would have seriously damaged the SNP and cost it even more votes?

News headlines May 25th 2026.

"Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell in custody after admitting £400,000 embezzlement."

And in the days since;

"Swinney rejects calls for independent inquiry into Murrell SNP embezzlement"

Nicola Sturgeon issued a statement via her lawyers - Why?

Did Nicola Sturgeon not train as a lawyer herself?  So why can't she appear before the cameras and give a personal account of how this situation arose and what she knew, if indeed she 'knew nothing'.

The Daily Record newspapers front cover mocking Nicola Sturgeon as saying "I know nothing" in the style of Manuel from Fawlty Towers was priceless. Long gone are the days when the Scottish news media would fawn all over Nicola Sturgeon and make excuses for her blunders and failures.

First Minister of Scotland, SNP leader John Swinney offers a tired list of excuses and dodges the obvious questions and has rejected calls for an independent inquiry into the scandal.

"First Minister John Swinney has denied trying to sweep a scandal surrounding former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell's "under the carpet".

Also....

"Swinney faced criticism from opposition MSPs after Murrell admitted embezzling more than £400,000 of party funds."

John Swinney says ;

"

We know what the problem was – the problem was criminal behaviour and the police have identified that and the individual involved has been prosecuted."

“You cannot get any inquiry more detailed than a police inquiry, and I think we should all respect the fact there has been a detailed inquiry into all the issues.”

In other words the SNP leadership wants to end the discussion and move on before anything else is brought into the light. But other SNP MSP''s are not happy and want further investigations. Perhaps the SNP might see some internal splits as a result.

Meanwhile one former SNP First Minister, a certain Humza Yusaf has given a highly critical interview to the Scotsman newspaper saying:

"The former first minister said Murrell had ‘hideously betrayed the trust of so many people’ Humza Yousaf has said he hopes Peter Murrell is given a “hefty” sentence after he admitting embezzling £400,000 from the SNP."

Obviously Humza Yousaf has no sense of standing by a former colleague and SNP executive, no doubt a sense of betrayal shared by many others inside the SNP. Perhaps this will be the beginning of a fracturing within the SNP and perhaps Police Scotland will be forced to reveal more details from 'Operation Branchform' that implicates other SNP big-wigs in an even bigger scandal.

THE TIME HAS COME TO BUILD AND DEVELOP RADICAL CHANGE IN SCOTTISH POLITICS.