We want our campervan back, demand Nats

The SNP finance saga continues to drag on – but today it’s taken a rather strange turn. Last year, a £110,000 motorhome was seized by police from outside Nicola Sturgeon’s mother-in-law’s house as part of Operation Branchform into the party’s finances. On the same day, Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell was arrested, while Sturgeon and the SNP’s treasurer were taken in for questioning at later dates. All three were released, though the campervan purchase is currently being investigated alongside other transactions, including gardening equipment and, er, women’s razors.

The unused vehicle, said to have been purchased for campaigning, caused a stir last year when SNP treasurer Colin Beattie admitted that he had not been aware of the buy, while Westminster leader Stephen Flynn told Mr S that he only became aware ‘when it was on the front of a newspaper’. 

The three-year police investigation is making slow progress. As the campervan is approaching a rather sad year spent impounded in a police station, senior SNP figures have had enough.