The had such promise in 2014, those two, but these days all they do is snipe, living for SNP scandals they can persuade mugs to read about and earn them a living. I suspect their business model is based on Russel Brand.

There are times I wonder about our business model at TuS as we batter-out researched reports to counter Unionist lies for well-under the minimum wage and they just feed lazily on tabloid………….shite.

McAlpine’s latest in an exemplar of projection, projection of your own doubts, with eg:

Sturgeon would still be Narcissus, the Greek tragic hero who so needed to be loved and liked and respected that she couldn’t see that it was dark, murky water and not a mirror. Give her that power again and she would abuse it again. She’d organise the same rockstar launch gigs, create the same culture of total control, tell the same lies when the truth made her look bad, force out the same internal critics, bully the same people.

Petter Murrell is and always was a squirming little Iago, one of life’s inadequates, a deeply unimpressive man manipulating and lying and cheating his way to power and wealth, an odious, crawling little horror.

This is a man once thought special who felt the SNP should listen to his every word and then when they didn’t, sank into a pit of snakes with only the above kind tragedy to offer the people of Scotland.

Stu has only this today:

Peter Murrell wasn’t even locked up in his cell at Saughton (we hope it’s the same one as Craig Murray’s) when the chump-suckering resumed. And as the Nicola Sturgeon Loyal, led by her most faithful of lieutenants, set out to try to take control of the post-conviction narrative, let’s take a look at just what a boatload of bare-faced bullshit the above is.

Everyone in Scotland, not just the SNP’s members or independence supporters, was a victim of Peter Murrell’s crimes. For a start because Operation Branchform cost close to £3 million of public money, dwarfing the £400,000 Murrell pinched to spend on a houseful of frou-frou knick-knacks.

Talk about a bitter wee man and a stupid one too – I am a victim of the Operation Branchform £3m waste of public funds but don’t blame Murrell for that. Any knowledge of the history of the English Empire’s breakup and the security service’s role in trying to stop that, tells us that this was massively inflated and extended, on orders from London, in a desperate attempt to harm the whole SNP and the wider movement. If it was only about Murrell, they could have shut it down in weeks.