Peter Murrell is a strangely shiny man. He has the air of an undertaker who’s been siphoning off the corpse lacquer to use on his own face. The erstwhile self-proclaimed ‘money man’ for the SNP arrived at court yesterday carrying a burglar’s hold-all, which for someone who was arriving to plead guilty to being on the rob was a fun touch.  

There’s an almost laughable brazenness to the SNP – partly because they seem to keep getting away with it

There’s an almost laughable brazenness to the SNP – partly because they seem to keep getting away with it

After years of presenting themselves as the great moral alternative to all the wickedness and corruption in Westminster it is finally becoming clear that the senior echelons of the SNP were on the make in the grubbiest way possible. Murrell, who was also First Gentleman to the Grand McKrankie herself, Nicola Sturgeon, will be sentenced in June after an almost inconceivably OTT buying binge using party funds. 

Among his purchases was £2,618 on salt and pepper shakers. Where was he buying this stuff, that basic household goods could have such a high price? A sort of special hyper-inflation John Lewis? A........

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