Under Sturgeon, Scotland was in thrall of an incredible degree of rampant corruption that included government, civil service, police, prosecutors and judiciary.
Listen to this simply stunning speech in Parliament yesterday by David Davis MP and you will understand precisely why I spent four months in jail, almost all in solitary confinement.
It is time for a public inquiry, led by judges from outside Scotland.
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The Murrells would not have got away with it – so far – without the active complicity or silence of fake opponents (i.e. Britnat media and politicians). Why the unionists chose, without exception, to aid the Murrells’ plot rather than headline it – and thereby destroy the figurehead of Scottish nationalism – must be included in any final assessment of who Nicola Sturgeon really was.
Craig – Is there any possibility of taking the phuckers to court for their part in your dodgy jailing?
Davis ends up by saying ‘let justice be done’ after citing a catalogue of injustices committed by the Scottish government. But what will be done if anything? The debate was on the adequacy of the Scotland Act 1998 which more or less emptied the Commons. Scotland Act 1998 is clearly not fit for purpose, but I doubt if there is any political will to reform or scrap it. Davis mentioned that Alex Salmond is suing the Scottish government so hopefully that case might open the can of worms that Davis describes and he will at least get the redress that he deserves.
Well, it could take the non-SNP parties, a media campaign demanding transparency and accountability and public opinion which will be horrified when it is properly informed. Why is that not the case, what is wrong with these people?
Evidently the first step towards doing nothing about a problem is to take care not to know about it.
The line in “The Winslow Boy” was “Let right be done”, wasn’t it? I guess either is an adequate translation of ” Fiat justitia”. But does not “Let right be done” have more of a ring to it?
As Rattigan saw.
Wow, just wow. I don’t know what sparked David Davis’ interest in the Salmond fiasco, but you have to respect his willingness to stand up for justice and the rule of law in Scotland when it comes to the rampant corruption and conspiracies to pervert justice that he comprehensively and forensically details here. It is particularly significant that he fingers Lloyd and Evans’ central role in the perversion of justice, with the connivance of senior figures in the SNP and other civil servants.
It beggars belief that it takes an English MP to raise these incredibly serious issues while the Scottish media is united in their silence and apparent indifference. Why is no-one apparently interested in having Holyrood held to account, with urgent reforms instituted, in order to assure Scottish citizens that they have a parliament which has robust rules about corruption and entirely inappropriate collusion between civil servants, the judiciary and the press? To the extent that innocent people are jailed, reputations tarnished, and the impression that no-one in the Scottish parliament will be accountable for the most egregious criminal acts.
Davis is one hundred percent correct, that answers must be given and people held to account. Yet, there is a vast wall of silence, even by those who oppose the SNP and Holyrood. Where is the commitment to any kind of justice and public accountability of people who have enriched themselves over a long period at the expense of the integrity of the Scottish parliament? It seems incredible that no-one is interested – which only reinforces the impression that if you don’t care about obvious corruption how can you claim to care about Scotland at all?
Re: ‘I don’t know what sparked David Davis’ interest in the Salmond fiasco’
He’s mates with him, Ian. Despite representing different parties, they have a fair bit in common – being smarter than 95% of the identikit parliamentary Oxford PPE drones for a kick-off.
Two men with integrity, but with different points of view. Who can disagree, but still get on as friends. Men of substance and intellect.
If only David Davis had become Conservative leader when he was up against David Cameron, we might live in a completely different county now.
Yes indeed. It seemed odd at the time the way that Dimwit Dave emerged from nowhere to snatch the crown. In fact, it was that incident that led me to start thinking why these flawed leaders get pushed forward in coordinated campaigns. By my reckoning, it’s if they are going to be easily controlled, whether by flattery, bribery, blackmail (check out Charles Lynton), or just being too stupid to hold any original thoughts. I suspect the last in the case of the current PM.
“Why is no-one apparently interested in having Holyrood held to account…?”
As far as the Scottish media are concerned, I would first ask who owns them. That might well be the only question required.
To someone of my age, it is increasingly amazing that the world has ever seen impartial and objective media. Why would they behave that way, when there is such a substance as money?
Because we have seen outstanding examples of courageous and campaigning journalism before and hope that we shall witness some more of it, especially in outrageously blatant examples of corruption and cronyism such as this. You can’t buy everyone off, as Craig and others have demonstrated. Giving up with cheap cynicism is exactly what they want.
Hope is not a strategy. Certainly Messrs Assange and Murray set a fine example; and were both locked up for it. How many people did they influence?
I was talking about the big media businesses, not courageous samizdat.
What a defeatist response, but typical. No-one ever said hope was a ‘strategy’, which is a patronising and empty statement.
There is no Scottish media.
It is a British media.
A real parliamentarian’s speech. It was the UK Parliament that set up the Scottish Parliament under the 1998 Act and it is for the U.K. to rectify their deficient legislation in the way David Davis recommends. If they don’t and neglect their responsibilities it further empowers those like Craig calling for UDI so Scots can sort these matters out themselves.
It’s certainly come to something that those who want a Scottish parliament which is representative and accountable are reduced to hoping that Westminster will fix it. It is of course in their interests to let it rot and implode. Very sad when you think of the optimism that surrounded it formerly. (Cue the ‘told you so’ types, I know, yawn)
Apparently, Joanna Cherry KC will have a lot to say about this matter when she is able to speak freely. So why wasn’t she able to speak freely, thanks to parliamentary privilege, when she was an MP?
https://x.com/joannaccherry/status/1814027456182882776
So let’s get this straight: fear of people like Beth (formerly Jack) Douglas, and her big pointy knife & axe collection, didn’t stop her speaking out for women’s rights / against trans people’s rights (delete according to preference), but fear of the SNP top brass stopped her speaking out against them? What’s Sturgeon packing?
Recent history is littered with men and women who talked sense until they became MPs or, as MPs, became part of the government and then practised duckspeak until they retired, at which point they started talking sense again. I suspect that very few people reach these sort of positions without having something to hide in their past lives and this is used to control them while they are within spitting distance of the levers of power.
What an excellent speech. One can only hope that the evidence is still accessible and that those who took part in this scandalous contempt of their own rules will be held responsible for the immense costs, and the subsequent jailing of Craig under some dubious ‘jigsaw identification’ that led to his contempt of court sentence.
Justice for Scotland and Craig – a public inquiry must do the right thing and recommend stringent changes to the sorry state the SNP has become accustomed to.
Truly an excellent speech. The fact that it emptied the House – and Mr Davis expected that – says all we need to know about British “democracy”.
They hear the words “corruption” and “justice”, turn tail, and flee. “We might get caught up in that”. And there is almost certainly no profit to be had.
I am put in mind of Oliver Cromwell’s speech dissolving (at sword point) the Rump Parliament in April 1653.
“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
“Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
“Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
“Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
“Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?”
The legislature was castrated decades go, the first time temporarily by Lloyd George during the Great War and then permanently in the 40s.
What just before he invaded Scotland, massacred the populace and turned the country into an English colony?
That has nothing whatever to do with what I posted. If you make it a principle never to think about or mention anyone who has ever done anything wrong, you will have very little to talk about.
And so in the name of good government, Cromwell by force betrayed the ideals of parliamentary democracy which he had previously sworn to protect. Starmer also is a keen supporter of good government, but in his acts so far, like Cromwell, confuses good government with effective power. I’m sure Corbyn knows the difference.
Damning evidence of the corrupt actions of some in the Scottish government, and the actions to cover them up.
I hope the changes he mentions are implemented.
It is remarkable the speed, velocity and breakneck haste that was deployed by the COPFS in sending Craig to jail for the heinous crime of telling the truth in comparison to the sloth like crawl in delivering justice to Evans, the Murrells, Lloyd, Ruddick, Clegg, Swinney, Wolfe and all the others for the multiple crimes inflicted on Salmond and the supporters of Scottish Independence.
What a shite country we live in.
Nothing new about any of this. Hamlet referred to ‘the insolence of office’ and ‘the law’s delay.’
The sloth like crawl seems to have more to do with preventing the progress of Salmond’s legal action against the SG.
Maybe that’s the only aim of the investigations and everything will get dropped eventually.
Very interesting things said under parliamentary privilege about Liz Lloyd- I always thought that Sturgeon was being ‘handled’ by someone.
I thought it was strange that most MPs walked out when Davis was speaking. Why have they so little interest in their own country’s government?
Reassuring to hear a decent and dogged MP like Sir David Davis.
Why was it left to David Davis to speak out about this when we had the likes of Neale Hanvey, Kenny McAskill and Joanna Cherry in the HoC? Why did they not speak out when they had the chance to do so?
Well if Craig had been elected as an MP, we might have found out.
I wish we would have had such moderation in Blackburn on some of the incoming social media.
I’m curious as to why it is a member for Goole and somewhere who takes an interest in Scotland.
If Scotland’s parliament, i.e. its committees, doesn’t have the power to investigate things properly
(i.e. without COPFS telling them what they may or may not see), then that task should fall to the Westminster parliament and its committees (just the same as if there was a cause to investigate and English county council)
David Davis is one of the few people with integrity on the Tory benches.
He’s also one of the very few MPs (and the only Tory, IIRC – correct me if I’m wrong) who ever spoke out in Parliament in support of Julian Assange during the long extradition proceedings.
I am impressed. I was expecting the kind of nonsense he spouted as Brexit Secretary, when he never got to the point of a sentence, sounded like he might be about to commit to something and veered away fluently, and dodged every question with no comeback on any of it.
What the purpose of Brexit was, and who was really driving it, remains to come to light. I agree, we would be living in a very different country if he had become Conservative Leader instead of the Arms Dealer, Cameron, and the Arms producer, May’s trillionaire husband. But we are where we are and perhaps truth and justice will get a look in now.
The Breshit Bulldog DD, worked for the benefit of his Sugar Daddy – Tate and Lyle – they were to benefit from the New Free Trade. He wasn’t a Kipper and was used as a meat puppet as we were moved to the Hard No Deal BrexShit that was always the Plan A. It was purely to stage the supposed meetings with Barnier – they’d turn up with reams full to discuss whereas BBDD would stroll in with nothing – not even a note pad and pen.
He was a stooge – maybe he realises it too late – maybe he could have stepped into the AS bs against JC. I can’t recall anything. He’s there the other hardcore Eurosceptics are out – he could make amends and drop bucket loads on the whole poxy charade.
It’s a good start. It needs to end with heads rolling, trial and prison and MASSIVE compensation for CM and Salmond.
He also deliberately misled Parliament, repeatedly, when he denied the existence of Brexit impact assessments.
If only he had displayed then the level of integrity he does when discussing Salmond…
Naming names, namely that of Liz Lloyd, formerly Nicola Sturgeon’s chief of staff” as the source of the illegal leak to the Daily Record
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ex-tory-minister-calls-more-180021385.html
Great speech – many thanks for posting it. To the point, logical, all the main points stated (and stated very well). Question: is there any chance of anything happening? What he said was not only well known and in the public domain, but much of it had also been stated by David Davis himself in previous parliamentary speeches. Why are none of the Scottish MPs interested in this?
Hearing Sir David Davis under parliamentary privilege call out how rotten the rule of law is in Scotland is absolutely chilling.
Scotland is a state where a rotten, corrupt and criminal government act in in concert with an equally rotten and criminal Police Scotland, Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Office and senior civil servant to harry, intimidate and incarcerate political opposition. It is no rule of law just the law of the jungle and no one, absolutely no one can have trust in the arms of the state.
Stalin, Hitler, in the 30s were all states where the law of the jungle, the law of the rotten and corrupt state prevailed. Jailing innocent men and women through the corrupt behaviours of the state is a well understood concept and the little people would be well advised to take notice – because once this genie is out of the bottle it does not stop.
Demonstrators, protestors, citizens raising concerns are all at risk from a chap at the door. Where does it stop when a state goes bad and turns against the people.
That is a big big question. What do you do when democracy is subverted, when state oppression becomes the way, when people are exposed to the criminal thuggery of the state. There has to be a way to fight back. But thus far, and as Sir David Davis exposes the dark deeds of a brutalising government and state remain in place.
The USA no doubt considered this when they introduced the 2nd amendment with the right of citizens to bear arms. Back then they recognised the need for citizens to have a counterfoil to use against a state that turned against them. Indeed, some commentators say it was to provide arms lest the British tried to come back. Sadly the proliferation of guns in the USA has caused untold misery with gun deaths. But the intention back all these years ago to allow people to resist oppression was a sound one.
But back to Scotland, the question is: where do we go from here? Police Scotland and Crown Prosecution political bias will not go away. The abuses will continue. This was only the start. So where now from here?
Maybe in a rotten and corrupt country where the processes of democracy and rule of law are corrupt there has to be another way of restoring democracy and fairness. You wouldn’t spit in the face of a Glasgow gangster or give his children a kicking because you are the big beast. But that is what happens when there is no democracy, where there is rotten and corrupt oppression. You only need to look around the world to see examples of where the people turn against the rulers. Indeed, maybe if people had done that in the early 30s in Germany the rotten Nazi regime would never have blossomed in the way that it did.
So think of Craig Murray and his jailing in that light. Or Alex Salmond, or Mark Hirst or Marion Millar or Manny Singh or any of the others and you get the idea of where we are and where we go. And who next?
But to quote an old Glasgow saying when someone was wronged, but at that time when they were outgunned to do anything, the words uttered were often … “I’ll remember your face”, and they did!
And that I’m afraid is an unregulated outcome that societies would do well to avoid.
Thinking about how the Scottish government and how its rotten and corrupt police, prosecution service and senior civil servants criminally conspire to intimidate, jail and or destroy political freedom one would do well to remember the old motto of Scotland which is –
“Nemo me impune lacessit” (which is Latin for ‘No one provokes me with impunity’) and was the national motto of Scotland under the Stuarts….
Printed on the reverse of the James the 6th Merk coin, the motto speaks for itself and it is a clarion call against those who would do Scotland down. And it is as true today as it was all those years ago.
I have worked within several Independence groups, organisations and parties and I have always wondered why the worst of people end up in the powerful positions within the party and within government. I used to think these people were just unpleasant and egotistical, but I now believe it is all orchestrated. British state operatives infiltrate and work from within, in all walks of Scottish life, to destroy and divide and corrupt. This way, we, the Scottish people, are conditioned into believing that Scotland and the people of Scotland are inherently useless and can’t do anything well, when in actual fact it is most likely all orchestrated. I believe Sturgeon and many others in the SNP are working for the british state, who position their people years if not decades in advance and bring them to power through publicity. We all need to wise up to their tactics, infiltrate and destroy from within.
extremely well conditioned. they will be asking the English until the end of time for permission to have another vote for their own independence; congratulating themselves, and being congratulated by the English, on going about it in a responsible and grown up way.
There is a theory that those people get to where they are because of a strain of psychopathy or sociopathy which they posses – which enables their manipulative and abusive rise to power. A ruthless streak, devoid of empathy, which then consolidates their power by surrounding themselves with people dependent on them for their status and salaries, who they rule by fear of exclusion and banishment. Outright enemies are disgraced, expelled, smeared, jailed. See also Johnson, Trump etc etc. I couldn’t possibly comment on its accuracy.
I think the influence of the State operates through a variety of tactics. The company men/women you describe, ones with a psychopathic strain, are essentially self selecting and a feature of any organisation. Eichmann was a classic example. Then there are cuckoos placed in the nest such as I suspect Blair, John Reid and Starmer were into the Labour Party. Their swift rise through the organisation, accompanied by gushing media articles, should act as a warning.
However I think the most commonly used tactic is simply to ‘turn’ people already within the organisation through a combination of bribery and flattery. Fact finding trips to 5 Eyes countries, usually when ‘selected’ whilst at university, are the first stage in this approach. As they rise through the organisation the gifts increase in value as do the awards from the State/academia/media. Gordon Brown would be a recent example of this in my opinion, as would Swinney and Sturgeon.
Bribery, flattery and kompromat.
Certain secret services tailor their recruitment adverts for a neurodivergent audience. With tools like Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, “AI” and campaigns uncovered by the investigative journalism of people like Lee Fang, why not use them to groom socio- and psychopaths for positions of power…?
Yes, interesting. I remember when I was in primary school doing a very long and detailed test, and feeling curious, I asked the teacher after a few weeks when we would get the results and she said she didn’t know. Well, we never got the results which makes me wonder. I know that Mi5 does courses and tests with school kids now, so I think perhaps they are searching around for the right kind of people even at a young age. It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Spot on. But it’s worse than that. We can be confident that the tentacles of the British State are embedded in virtually every major organisation, protest group, union, political party. And, the British State is part of the US led ‘five eyes’, so CIA, Mossad, et al will also be involved. Keep looking over your shoulder.
Wasn’t Davis saying the same kind of thing about the EU not so long ago? Maybe it’s a bit of projection by a long-standing member of the British establishment. They were quite happy for Sturgeon to be in power while they imposed their covid fascism on the UK nations. Now it suits them for Scotland to be Labour again, probably because the Americans have finally realised that Brexit has backfired and risks the vassal UK being a powerless bystander in Europe.
Interesting lack of coverage from the press.
Times – Northern Scot – The National – and that’s it. Nothing in the Graun
Is there a transcript of David Davis’ speech anywhere? I’m sure more (including the deaf) would read it than watch/listen to a video.
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[ Mod: Here’s a link to the official Hansard transcript:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-07-18/debates/4DC08467-BEE4-414B-B9F5-D99EB190B0AA/AdequacyOfTheScotlandAct1998
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Thanks to the mods for the text transcript from Hansard. The reply to Sir David is kind of blunt, buried in the waffle is this: “Scrutiny of the Scottish Government is a matter for the Scottish Parliament, and it could be raised there by the right honourable Member’s colleagues.” *
So nothing about the injustice at all, just some stuff about attempting to hold truth to power. The most striking thing about the clip is the sudden exodus of elected members when Sir David rose to speak. These people are paid to represent all the people, but apparently they did not want to hear about the abuses privilege affords.
* My word processor does not like the hon in the transcript, so I have corrected it to honourable.
Well said DD.
Prepare for a slew of early retirements and amnesia diagnoses..
Despite being a Tory, David Davis is a principled and decent bloke, by and large, and one of the few inhabitants of that nest of vipers by the Thames that deserves the epithet “Honorable”.He isn’t scared to take on unpopular causes (like questioning the guilt of Lucy Letby).
However he’s not all good, being one of the main protagonists in the “Brexit” camp, his nefarious efforts having deprived me of my European citizenship, I am now a mere subject of Old Wingnuts.
Strange. In the EU investigation “Quality of Government and Corruption from a European Perspective” from 2013, Scotland was one of the least corrupt countries/regions, alongside with Scandinavia and the Basque country. How was it possible that this could change just within a few years?