A key comment by Sturgeon refers to cash flow accounting, an acknowledgement surely that the SNP did not routinely prepare a balance sheet or conventional income and expenditure accounts, let alone accue for liabilities. My guess is that there hasn't been a fraud per se in the sense of someone having trousered £600k. Rather this points to gross ineptitude and mismanagement, of a breakdown in financial management and control of costs and likely confusion of 'cash in bank' equating to an 'operational surplus'. I'd argue that the charge is an damning as that of fraud, revealing as it does the incompetence and financial naivety of the SNP. Put in the context of say the ferries debacle in is maybe not surprising.
Reading the chronology of events like this makes this situation even more dire than it appears and her resignation even more compelling
A key comment by Sturgeon refers to cash flow accounting, an acknowledgement surely that the SNP did not routinely prepare a balance sheet or conventional income and expenditure accounts, let alone accue for liabilities. My guess is that there hasn't been a fraud per se in the sense of someone having trousered £600k. Rather this points to gross ineptitude and mismanagement, of a breakdown in financial management and control of costs and likely confusion of 'cash in bank' equating to an 'operational surplus'. I'd argue that the charge is an damning as that of fraud, revealing as it does the incompetence and financial naivety of the SNP. Put in the context of say the ferries debacle in is maybe not surprising.
Time to get Kate Forbes back as leader? She came over as the only candidate worth voting for. Assuming one would ever want to vote for the SNP.
Salmond?