Peter Murrell bought 108 loo rolls using money stolen from SNP as panic-buy alert loomed
Peter Murrell snapped up more than 100 toilet rolls using money he had stolen from the SNP - just as Nicola Sturgeon prepared to urge the Scottish public not to panic-buy at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Court documents from his embezzlement trial reveal that on March 7, 2020, with lockdown looming as infection cases soared and supermarkets battled chronic shortages of essential items, the then First Minister's husband spent £55.98 on 108 luxury Andrex toilet rolls.
Just 48 hours later, Ms Sturgeon appeared at a press conference instructing the public to 'apply common sense' by not bulk-buying in shops and to 'behave as rationally as possible'.
If they were to do that, then politics as we know it would fade away to be replaced by something which isn't easy to envisage because we've never had it.
AI perhaps.
5 comments:
If you re-imagine politics as an example of Social Intelligence which endeavours to strike a balance between competing requirements then the failure of a few of the SI agents is hardly surprising.
But we are always surprised...
DJ - a few decades ago I listened to a radio interview where it was claimed that all intelligence is essentially social even though we vary from person to person.
This seems to be the basis of the damage caused by political rhetoric, it is inevitably tribal but a rational outlook does not fit well with a tribal one.
Perhaps he had used the SNP logic machine which told him that if he bought 108 rolls of bog paper before his darling wife spoke to the morons who voted for her then, by not having to panic buy, he was actually complying with the reassurance given by Jimmy Krankie's evil twin? Have read that back to myself, and my brain hurts!
Off topic slightly, during the dreaded plandemic, my thoughts returned to the three sheets of toilet paper (that shiny, non absorbent, stuff issued by the MoD) available for each visit to the thunderbox. One sheet to wipe, one to polish, and one to buff. Those were the days (not).
Penseivat
He also bought 144 bottles of Evian water - not even Patriotic Scots water.
Off wi' his heid!
Penseivat - put that way, SNP logic machine sounds much like the Starmer logic machine, the words are the script and only the script.
Three sheets sounds grim and three shiny sheets sounds worse.
dearieme - and Evian isn't even the green, planet friendly choice.
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