The first thing to say is that Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in an investigation into the SNP’s funding and finances, with no case to answer, scot-free. That may seem a statement of the bleedin’ obvious, but there are many in and out of the independence movement who do not and never will believe that she is wholly innocent.
No smoke without fire. Who was it that set up the £600,000 fund in 2017 for a referendum campaign that never happened? Are you trying to tell me that this micromanaging, control-freak politician was ignorant of what has been alleged to have gone on in her party under her very nose?
Salmond and Sturgeon were, in different ways, casualties of the times in which we live
Yes, people will inevitably cling to their suspicions. But to repeat, Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared of any wrongdoing – perhaps not in court, but by the police and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, after over two full years of investigation.
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