The IllumiSNPati Exposed: How Nicola Sturgeon Blames the Dead Man While John Swinney Cleans Up

Oh, what a fine mess...

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May 30, 2026

Sturgeon:

“Here’s where I will take responsibility…

He (husband, Peter Murrell) was chief executive under Alex Salmond for a long time.

Incidentally, what he pleaded guilty to, eh this week, started when Alex Salmond was leader - Not when I was leader.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9pdr4jw30o

Sturgeon:

“I, I - I didn’t do that!”

Salmond:

“I said it to both Nicola and Peter,” he says. “Neither took it well. I got a kind of rebuff from Nicola and I thought, ‘Oh well, why not say it to Peter, because he might take my advice and believe it to be in the best interests of his wife’.

And the point I made to them both was that you might get by when times are good – as they were then – but when times were tough, it would become a source of great weakness. “Nicola said she didn’t think it was a problem. And Peter looked at me with a look of sort of hurt astonishment, resentment, more than anything else. But it was advice well meant. It seemed to me a patently obvious point. I think my estrangement from Nicola and Peter can be traced to that moment.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/04/28/alex-salmond-interview-alba-scotland-nicola-sturgeon/

“Murrell replaced Michael Russell as chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2001, under the leadership of John Swinney.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murrell

“…he owed his most important political job to his boyhood friend John Swinney. The two are said to have been members of the Boys Brigade in Edinburgh and grew up together”

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/peter-murrell-snp-success-new-labour-zs03rm0h0

“Dorothy Ruth Bain KC is a Scottish advocate who has served as Lord Advocate since 2021… First Minister Nicola Sturgeon nominated Bain for Lord Advocate and on 22 June 2021”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Bain

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/15936068/john-swinney-briefed-nicola-sturgeon-peter-murrell-snp-swindle/

“It came hours before First Minister Humza Yousaf set out his government’s priorities for the next three years”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65327953

“The former SNP leader is Scotland’s longest-serving deputy first minister, as well as being one of Ms Sturgeon’s most trusted allies…

Got a problem? Send for John Swinney.

That appeared to be Nicola Sturgeon’s approach, anyway.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-62051702

“Mr Chapman resigned as party treasurer in May 2021, claiming he was not given enough information to do his job.

At the time, then deputy first minister John Swinney denied claims that police were investigating the whereabouts of £600,000 raised by SNP activists.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-66022659

Swinney:

"Humza is best placed to lead our party because he will strengthen the SNP as a force for progressive change in Scottish politics.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64926319

“Mr Yousaf's intervention will do little to quell speculation that he is Ms Sturgeon's pick as first minister. A close ally would mean the current leader could still exert a degree of power over policy.”

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/humza-yousaf-backs-peter-murrell-29307820