By Liz S

According to the not so ‘Scottish’ Daily Mail “The Peter Murrell scandal is set to be investigated by peers in the House of Lords, the Mail can reveal”.

That’s an investigation by Peers who are not members of the SNP party, who are all mostly non Scottish Peers or House Jocks and so are, by a majority , pro UK Peers and so then they all are (except the 2 Green Peers) anti Scottish independence unelected bureaucrats within the HOL’s.

So what or rather who prompted this ?

Well Jack McConnell had initially called for a joint inquiry between a Scottish Parliament committee and its counterpart in Westminster.

So I suspect that he is (heavily) involved in driving this ‘investigation’ within the HOL’s , mainly because his previous suggestion (above) was (rightly) rejected by the SNP.

Peter Murrrell was investigated , tried in a court of Law , convicted and jailed for five years , post a very expensive and intensive Police Scotland investigation , so what is the real purpose behind the HOL’s extending this matter via their so called and supposed ‘investigation’?

Who is it that they , the HOL’s and indeed Jack McConnell, really wants to see being punished and damaged both politically as a party and also personally as individuals within the SNP ?

So the HOL’s are now supposed virtue warriors, yet I read that:

“The House of Lords standards watchdog has not announced a single, overarching parliamentary committee investigation into all VIP lane contracts”.

According to Labour MP Angela Rayner “The VIP lane scandal saw billions of taxpayers’ money handed to Conservative cronies“.

Also in 2025 the Byline Times wrote that there were indeed Peers involved in this PPE VIP fast Lane scandal , i.e. members of the HOL’s.

Lord Chadlington: was “investigated multiple times by the Lords standards watchdog over referrals he made for pandemic contracts, leading to findings that he breached the code of conduct”. (he has now ‘retired’ from the HOL’s).

Lord Agnew: Former Treasury and Cabinet Office minister who referred multiple suppliers onto the high-priority channel. ( he is still a member of the HOL’s)

Lord Deighton: Former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury, who also referred a significant number of suppliers. (he is still a member of the HOL’s).

Lord Feldman: Conservative peer and former party chairman linked to multiple high-priority referrals. (he is noted as “currently -being – on leave of absence from the House of Lords in his entry in the UK parliament site)

Baroness (Michelle) Mone: Connected to the referral of PPE Medpro, a firm that secured £200 million in government contracts for surgical gowns shortly after being established. (she is also noted as currently- being – on leave of absence from the House of Lords”).

The Good Law project wrote this below , in November 2021, in an online article:

“A leaked document has revealed which Conservative MPs and Peers funnelled companies through a ‘VIP lane’ for lucrative PPE contracts, without competition. A staggering £1.6 billion worth of contracts were awarded as a result of referrals from just ten politicians at the heart of the Conservative party”.

“Michael Gove MP, Matt Hancock MP, Esther McVey MP, and Steve Brine MP are among the Conservative politicians who referred companies to the VIP lane”.

The “House of Lords had been noted as having had heavy representation in the referrals of these alleged dodgy (PPE) contracts, yet somehow the HOL’s has not sought to ‘put it’s own house in order’ nor seek to investigate the Tory party , in them, the HOL’s, seeking to hold an inquiry post this scandal into the awarding of the (alleged) very dodgy Tory VIP Fast lane contracts.

That is they , the HOL’s, seem to be not so keen to have a further investigation , in the same way that they have been (too) quick to want to hold an inquiry into the Murrell scandal – or rather one that they prefer to file under ‘SNP SCANDAL’.

Unelected bureaucrats who think that they can further ‘muddy the waters’ while historically they themselves are not so ‘clean’.

Cash for Honours (2006-2007) – “A political controversy over whether life peerages were promised or awarded in exchange for large financial loans and political donations to major parties”.

Parliamentary expenses scandal (2009) – “multiple peers faced suspension or criminal prosecution (such as Lord Taylor of Warwick) for falsely claiming thousands of pounds in allowances”.

Labour Lord Sewell’s resignation (2015) – “The Chairman of Committees resigned after tabloid footage showed him using illegal drugs and consorting with sex workers”

Note the above is not an exhaustive list of scandals linked to Peers in the HOL’s.

So really they, the HOL’s, can stick their ‘investigation’ aka pro UK SNP witch hunt where the sun does not shine,.

As it is blatantly obvious that the real purpose behind this so called HOL’s ‘inquiry’ into the Murrell scandal is that it is not an inquiry that has been prompted by best intentions, but instead it is obviously one that is prompted by politically partisan bad intentions full of political malicious intent.

That is for them it is an another excuse to declare #SNPBAD.

Liz S