Stuart Campbell, Wings Over Scotland (Sept 07, 2020)
We’ve had another letter from the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service. And slowly, painfully, we’re starting to get at least some answers. The reply maintains the snippy, condescending tone of the previous one, and you can read it in full here.
[...] The above makes for a horrifying and frightening case in any supposed democracy. It speaks of an arrogant organisation that has the power to ruin people’s lives but is literally beyond the law and doesn’t care that you know it. It speaks of public servants who don’t consider the confessedly malicious wasting of tens of millions of pounds of public money to be a resigning matter, because they know that there’s nobody who can MAKE them resign unless they can also take down the entire government to do it.
That, of course, is also the reason Leslie Evans is still in a job, having also wasted a fortune of public money on a biased and illegal persecution of Mr Salmond. And the common thread linking the continued employment of Ms Evans and Mr Wolffe is that their highly-paid positions are at least notionally in the gift of the First Minister. We can only invite readers to speculate as to why, at such astronomical cost to both the public purse and to the reputation of some of Scotland’s most distinguished and important institutions, Nicola Sturgeon is so desperate to keep them both in place.
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