SNP minister struggles to explain where £33 million ringfenced money went
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2023
- The convener of Holyrood’s Rural Affairs Committee has clashed with the minister in charge of Scotland’s agriculture over funding for the sector.
Conservative MSP Finlay Carson questioned Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon on Wednesday during her appearance before the committee to discuss her remit in the role.
During testy exchanges, the pair initially clashed over a £33 million saving that had been taken from the rural affairs allocation to balance last year’s budget, with promises from the then deputy first minister that the cash would be returned.
Asked by Tory MSP Rachael Hamilton when the money will be returned, Ms Gougeon said she could not give a “definitive timetable” but said the funding is “ring fenced” - meaning it will have to come back to the rural affairs allocation and she will continue discussions with current Deputy First Minister Shona Robison.
Mr Carson claimed the money was “taken out of the budget to be spent on something else” - an assertion rejected by the Scottish Government’s director of agriculture and rural economy, George Burgess.
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The SNP have the audacity to call for separatism when they cannot demonstrate even a speck of responsible government. What a joke
And have children spy on their parents too.
Is this the NEW Scotland you all want?
BTW it's not independence in any shape or form, when unelected Brussels bureacrats will rule you.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Only if you believe propaganda, we Scot’s see through propaganda and still keep voting the SNP into power fools
Separation….I think you mean Independence.
Seems like they can't even demonstrate a speck of honesty!
If that money was ringfenced and the SNP spent it elsewhere, it's called misappropriation. When we're talking £33m it's called jail-time. They spent that money or put it somewhere it was not meant to be. Swinney needs to get a really good lawyer and Scotland needs to get rid of the SNP.
No lawyer required. Prima facie fraud and I'm guessing not even the tip of the spear.
I'm actually happy for the Scots to continue to get an SNP government, if that's what they vote for. It really is a case of you get the government you deserve, and if they ignore this mess, or overlook it, they deserve it.
So who can initiate a fraud probe against the SNP. Where does it need to come from
Why did no-one ask, "when it - eventually - comes back, will it be inflation adjusted?" If it isn't then agriculture will suffer the inflationary loss - which is probably 15%+ already.
@@Loosehead only about 30% of Scot’s voted for the SNP.
In other words they misappropriated ring fenced money using it to cover other debts
Bit like the SNP membership donating for the Indyref 2. All gone! Think that may be the case here!
Yes exactly but they will never admit to it.
@@oldfordconsul !00% they've had Scottish Police in their pockets since it's formation - that is why they created it in the first place, and the ONLY reason the UK National Crime Agency are now involved.
There's a motorhome somewhere on someone's 90 odd year old mum's drive that can account for a small part of it
@@briandelamere8468 £100,000 doesn’t count as an appreciable part of £33,000,000.
The SNP treats Holyrood with utter contempt.
The mob who tried to tell us a Scottish pound was more valuable than a BoE at currency exchange 😂
@@cnoc500it is
They treat Holyrood with contempt and bleat on about the comtempt from Westminster .
And the citizens of Scotland
And Sturgeon and Murrell are in hiding instead of answering for what they have done. Shameful.
Who is covering this up ?
See "Police Scotland" for further information.
Why are the main media in Scotland not reporting this, and we say Russia has issues
@@johnbarclay5964 :- Cover up of the truth by politicians that we the public have to put up with. Then as taxpayers, we pay for it. Vote REFORM in protest and for a start to political change. Only way.
@@johnbarclay5964
Because it’s fake news from a rag only the uneducated read.
You must find this money person who nows where it is must be arrested bought to justice for stealing this money
They all need fraud charges against them .
It makes me so angry when politicians spent months arguing about whether the OAPs should get their pittance rise, and and these b******s are "misplacing" £33 million.
Beggars belief time for change drain the swamp
Let's keep this simple. It isn't incompetece - it's just pure fraud.
DEFINITELY.
Well said
I've worked 56 years never had a tax rebate pay full rent full council tax and sit down and watch All the MP 's getting £94.000 a year and still buy food phone's I pads Evan claim for toilet rolls I bet most of them Never touch there wages most of them have never had a hard day's job in there life . Scotland & England .R.I.P.
That Rachel Hamilton bint is far, far too passive in her questioning…almost apologetic, why are these SNP crooks being treated with kid gloves when they’ve obviously stolen millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money? There had better be some serious jail sentences handed down at the end of this shameful debacle!
alright there Loon, settle down Franco
@@oyl80 But he's is absolutely correct sheeple!!
🐑🐑🐑🤡🤡🤡
I think she is just “feeding out the rope”.
@@edwardoleyba3075exactly. She’s calmly sneaky and allowing themselves to self-harm and opening the door for others to pile in.
The ring fenced money , Never existed LOL thick Unionist dobs
it's really time Westminster desolved these administrations
@@nighthawk3673 Yes, that was my first idea. Sell that hideous, ostentatious building to National Car Parks for £1 and let them figure it out. If this bunch of crooks need to have meetings let them rent a church. Out of their own pocket, of course.
It is, it's time Scotland had full fiscal powers and an independent Parliament.
@@peterscott2395ah, didn't you watch the video mate?
No! It's long past time! B Liar has so much for which to answer!
They have short changed their farmers and then they blame Brexit for any and all difficulties that are being experienced by the agricultural sector. What a class act the SNP really are.
Not forgetting their go to Westminster for being blamed for everything. They just refuse to take responsibility for any of their many failings.
Agreed, but it mustn't be forgotten who put them in power. A vote is a dangerous thing in the hands of a moron.
The money isn't there because it never was 😂 how do you not understand that?? 😂
@@conkadonk4976 What do you mean that the money was never there? How can it have been supposedly "ringfenced " if it wasn't there?
@@patricklee6206 it was hypothetical, If they ring fenced the sum , they could under cut their budgets and use the (not missing sum ) in another department , If Westminster seen us suing extra budgets , they may be inclined to cut scotlands budget to that sum
These people should be in front of a judge, no wonder they are having difficulties with Audits
I can't remember, it was Westminster, and Brexits fault 😂😂😂😂
A big Tory dun it.....
Wow, is that you Nicola, under another name? Asking because you have the same symptoms as a certain ex-first minister who also has selective amnesia.
😆😆😆
That is actually true it is all Westminsters fault,also a big boy done it and ran away and the dog ate my homework.
@@mrdunns3338 I think he is just being funny.
So it’s ringfenced, but it’s not. So what the guy says, is that the money has been spent elsewhere, and they will struggle to make it up. So being ringfenced means absolutely nothing to the SNP, and is another example of how they cannot manage their finances. So where are they going to get the money to make up for the money they spent on something else ? And Humza says the party is solvent ! It’s skint.
You have confused the SNP (a political party) with the Scottish Government. Here they are talking about the Scottish Government budget and spending.
@@johngordon1576 What's the confusion. The SNP and the ruling political party are one and the same thing.
@@johngordon1576 and who represents the Scottish Gov ?
Who spends and decides where the money goes ?
Answers on a postcard sent to yourself 👍
@@johngordon1576 🤡
@@johngordon1576 Since you are not confused and understand what ‘they’ are talking about, John, could you please explain it to them? While you’re at it, could you please explain to me-and everyone else-WHERE IS THE MONEY?
An accountant would describe that answer as Fraud
I’ll spend my council tax payment up the pub, and when they ask for it, i’ll tell them to chill out because it’s been “ring fenced”. 😂
SUCH A GOOD EXAMPLE SEE YOU DOWN THE PUB OH & BY THE WAY IT'S YOUR ROUND.
Brilliant!!
Now I’m not a financial guru, but even I know that if money is given to another budget and no longer exists to be returned, then it has been “spent”. Which means that the “ring fence “ was totally ignored. Promising to return the money at a later (unknown) date does NOT retain the “ring fence”!
In fact I’d say that the person who authorised the movement of this money from the fund deserves to be prosecuted for embezzlement!
The ring fence is still perfectly intact. Unfortunately they managed to dig a tunnel underneath it and spirit the money away in a campervan.
@@daveturnbull7221 👍
@@daveturnbull7221the Sturgeons may know of its whereabouts worth an ask ,are they still in the UK? Did you see the gear in those tunnels ,sorry just went off in a tangent ,are the police still investigating lost funds?.
@@daveturnbull7221 l love it.😂
@@daveturnbull7221 Dave don't be silly they didn't dig below the fence. They climbed on to the Snatz mythical unicorn and flew over it. 🤣🤣🤣
I've watched a few of these videos now and I've come to the conclusion that the SNP & Greens are of the opinion that they are playing some sort of computer game where actions have no consequences and all bad things are not only not their fault but can be undone simply by placing the blame squarely on the shoulders of Westminster. As a Scot I'm not only severely embarrased but am now starting to feel ashamed.
I’m furious that they are getting away with fraud.
@@susanmills4843 as we all should be 👍
It’s not your fault mate - unless you voted for them
@@mogznwaz That could only happen in my very worst nightmares and I have some bad ones.
@@susanmills4843
ME TOO,it's damn well DISGUSTING.
Liar liar pants on fire!!!
When a polition says "I want to be perfectly clear" they're lying
They lie when they say anything
If it’s ring fenced and can’t be spent elsewhere
What’s the problem with giving a date to return it
It’s totally unbelievable what 💩this pair waffle, then again it’s the SNP so no it’s not
I've come to the conclusion a long time ago, the people needing most held to account are the folk who continually vote this party in. Kudos to the nationalist movement for succeeding in brainwashing a generation to the extent they're unable to grasp the incompetence and cumulative failings of the SNP in front of their own eyes. Key words in this clip...'black hole'. Watch that hole get a lot bigger, their moment of realisation will undoubtedly come to fruition.
well said
1:50 he promised they'd make up any deficit in funds.
Has anyone seen "Dumb and Dumber", when the briefcase is opened and it's full of IOU's? That is this, except Harry and Larry weren't government ministers.
Two other euphemisms - the Cabinet Secretary; “let me be clear about this”. Her mate; “ringfenced”. Absolute shiseters🤮
Canny Scots, I don’t think so.
The SNP REALLY need to look up the definition of "ringfenced". They seem to think it means "can be spent on anything else they feel like and disappear into thin air".
Were they taught the definition by Natalie Mcgarry? How many campervans can 33 million buy?
Here's an idea, when Sturgeon / Useless turn up in front of a microphone to piddle away millions of Scottish taxpayer money on absolute nonsense like "climate reparations" etc, just to look good for 5 minutes in a news story - there's some of your 33 million right there. And their pretendy embassies, there's millions more. And the £100+ million a year to fund teenagers using endless free bus journeys as mobile gang huts as they go into town centres for no particular reason other than they are bored. Well there's at least 3x33 milllion right there, every single year. There is a long list of undeeded spending by the SNP, all just to look good in news stories, it's always about the optics and the spin. During covid experts were pointing out the SNP were spending temporary covid money on longer term budgets and this would come crashing down, and now it IS crashing down. Anyone with basic maths skills could see this coming. Which rules out the SNP I suppose.
All this crap adds up - then they seem surprised when they are forecast to run a large deficit!
What a pair of numpties - what they are really trying to say is it's ring fenced in someone's pocket and they don't know whose or where it is now.
And Mosques!
Absolutely embarrassing, this standard of individual is allowed to participate in the governance of Scotland's finances. No wonder we're in a mess.
The SNP really have a problem understanding what ringfenced means. First it was £600,000 now they're talking about £33 Million.
Actually, if you look carefully, there is over £2 billion missing.
@@dlondon1144
I WONDER WHERE ALL THE MONEY'S GONE.?
Absolutely unbelievable. No wonder they are in such a mess.
Agreed . If they are scrambling about for a relatively paltry sum of £33 million in an overall expenditure of billions . They are indeed in a mess .
When I ring fence money for my holiday I don’t use it for a car. Simples, no?
What are you trying to infer,that the snp may possibly be crooked,never 🤔
@@johngreenhorn8853 I would never infer such a thing, how dare you Sir! Pistols or swords at a place of your choosing.
@@yesterdaysman8123 . Gentlemen, please! Save your pistols and swords for those that deserve it 😉
If you did this in a publicly traded company, you would probably lose your job, and could be open to being sued. It is just robbing Peter to pay Paul . At best, fiduciary negligence
Prison sentence
That's why the Bank of England is privately owned..
Any other work place.
Would be shut down and charged with fraud and. Theft🥷🥷👮♂️
@@isobelwalker
ABSOLUTELY.
😂😂😂 there never was any money 😂😂😂
There needs to be a serious investigation into the finances of the Scottish government by the fraud squad. I bet there are millions of pounds missing or misappropriated. Maybe they all have new campervans and I would not be surprised.
SNP black hole,I think it’s probably full up by now or it’s a bloody great hole.Perhaps the £33 million has gone on a fleet of motor homes.Whatever happens nobody’s accountable for it,these people should wear masks and carry guns just like bank robbers.
Embassies aren't cheap
The more I read about the SNP the more i despise them ,they are just common criminals.The police should be arresting them all ,we all know what needs to happen but I’ve got my doubts that they will face any criminal charges.
so if the money was not spent then just give it straight back,no wait they cant because i bet they HAVE spent it.
No, no, you've got it wrong daffytree, they haven't spent it. It IS ring fenced - in their own backyards!
Time to act , vote them out. They are treating the Scottish people like fools , fair enough if you voted for them then thats on you , but unfair on the prople who didnt .😱
Ring fenced? Have we not heard this before from the SNP?
“Absolutely clear” is Sturgeonese for “muddy and obtuse as all hell”.
The SNP never know where any money goes just always pleading for more.Profligate to the extreme
Looks like they all got a campervan.
Arrests are inevitable...tip of the iceberg
There should be no surprise that the SNP is having some difficulty in accounting for expenditure. It seems to be in their DNA.
For many years now, I've been wondering what DNA means, and now I have it. It's the National Dyslexia Association, aka the snp.
@@mrdunns3338
VERY GOOD,WELL SAID.
To me it seems to be in thier pockets.
Is this something else the police need to look into
Waste of time. They still haven't got to the bottom of campervangate or the missing 600k. Nor are they likely to.
If they cant use it,,put it back...or has it 'rested' in a bank account somewhere!?
They must have gone to the Amber Heard School of Economics. She pledged 7 millions dollars to charity - never actually paid them, but claimed in court that pledging and paying are synonymous with each other.
😂exactly what I was thinking,it played out very similar to that court scene.
The SNP trying to explain “ring fenced” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Let's be honest the snp can't explain anthing to do with politics,just whoffle and deflection and it wasn't me its westministers fault. When a political party like the snp blame every thing on their shortcomings to anyone else that really shows the incompetence of the snp.
No wonder no Auditors could be found
Imagine trying to get answers from these people
Same as EU finances, they'll do it themselves and everything will be spot and well within normally accepted accountancy discrepancies.
its all so clear , its ring fenced but not there and will be returned in future years when the UK gives us some more money LOL
@@duncansteward4331 Ring fenced but Nicola and Peter didn’t close the gate
When did "ringfence" become "spent on something else, so we'll have to cut expenditure elsewhere to law that money back"?
When will we get rid of this bunch of amateurs????
Ring fenced nonsense. It’s probably been interest bearing throughout and creamed off for personal use. Why these people are not being held to account for this obvious lack of financial accountability and transparency is beyond comprehension. They should be pressed much harder on this issue.
It all smells like an open cesspit. It's time control came back to Westminster, or if it remains at Holyrood then the taxing powers need to be withdrawn.
Overspending in one area being offset by underspend in another is common practice in budgeting and in local authorities. I appreciate this shouldn't have happened with a ring fenced budget, nor should it have been underspent unless planned expenditure didn't happen e.g. a capital project that didn't start before the end of the financial year. However, if anyone thinks Westminster could do better at managing they might want to consider that there is £265 Billion of taxpayer's money unaccounted for every year (at least between 2016 and 2020). Money given to central Gvt quangos that haven't reported on it's usage or whereabouts and who haven't been reviewed or questioned by the Treasury. I'd trust the UK gvt even less than the Scottish Gvt.
It’s truly frightening, they have spent the money because they got their sums wrong. They just can’t tell the truth
Unbelievable, who is going to be prosecuted for this. If they have the money it should be turned over straight away. No excuses
Was it just temporarily removed from the agricultural budget so the SNP could claim poverty to Westminster and demand more financial help? No matter the reason it stinks and jailtime is due for fraud IMO
So it was stolen but they cannot admit it or don't want to say who stole it
god help us, if this is an answer, i dont suppose we will ever find the money!
SNP idea of ring fencing is different to everyone else's definition!!!!
After just two minutes listening to this, it is quite obvious no-one knows where the money has gone or where it is!
"It was ring fenced and can ONLY be spent for agricultural spending"........ except it wasn't.
Do they think we are all idiots ? It was robbing Peter to pay Paul, and the money might never be replaced.
Yes, they do think we are all idiots.
Based on the people who vote them in, yes!
its not robbing peter to pay paul, its just robbing peter and paul!!
and then the money just disappears to switzerland!!¬
These "Independence " seekers will simply ask " Bank of Mum and Dad", Namely Westminster for yet more handouts over and above the rest of the UK at the same time blaming them for their own incompetence mixture of possible fraud, misuse of money and general inability or expertise to manage even the simplest operation. Keep in mind that the Population of Scotland is similar to the Single county or Yorkshire and yet they do not even have the Gumption of the Worst of the UK's Parish Councils.
Yes, they do. And yes, they did😉
Just lock them up till they remember.
Brilliant, Where is the British tax payers money, we're all ears.
So... the Scottish government overspent on its budget and used ring fenced money, money specifically meant for another purpose, to show they had not overspent. This is fraud! Simple! That money was for a agricultural purposes only, and it was used to fraudulently show the budget was balanced when, clearly, it was not. What's all the fudging for? If as a sales assistent you were short on the till and you used next days float to balance the till you would have been sacked for fraud. Where do we get these people from?
Politicians; councillors , corrupt, our farmers need more help, woke is absolute disgraceful.
How would this lot hope to survive independently?
That’s a proper Scottish comedy script there.
Another example of a what a failure devolution has been. The SNP constantly expect English taxpayers to bail them out. Nothing has changed since 1701
Ha,Ha,Ha! 1701!
CORRUPT TO THE CORE. GET THEM OUT NOW THEY ARE DESTROYING SCOTLAND.ITS CALLED ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL.
Let me simplify this and see if i've got it right:
They took the £33m out of the agricultural budget and spent it on something else, but they're promising to repay that amount in the future?
In that case it's simply an "I Owe You" and not "ringfenced" and sounds quite illegal.
And they haven't got the brass balls to tell us where they spent it.
But they haven't spent it, were you not paying attention, it's just waiting to pop back in from where it isn't at the moment if that makes sense to you, come back Monty Python and finish this sketch.
Typical SNP, they have no care for farmers, except themselves.
…..and some unknown budget in the future will suffer a drop of £33 million when and IF it is replaced .
What they seem to be saying is they took 33 million out of the ringfenced budget but didn't spend it and it's not sitting in an account somewhere.
So where the hell is it then?
Ah yes a Scottish version of Monty Python.Ring fenced,for agriculture,but not ring fenced and not for agriculture???
Blatant crookery, jail sentences must surely be on their way.
It's part of an ongoing police investigation (another one) so I can't comment on where this £33m has gone.
As always..Great morals and principles on display in the court of the Krankie Queen. When will true Scots rise up against these con artists stealing from them? Or are they all too drunk too care?
Lying through their teeth
The £33,000,000 is hiding down the back of the SNP’s sofa, along with the missing £600,000.
I’m just setting up a house clearance company. I’ll put in an offer to do Nichola’s house clearance for her and, “let me be clear about this”, if I find it, I will “ring fence” it into an offshore tax haven. 😉
They have no idea where the money has gone but and it is a pure coincidence that all the in-laws of the SNP ministers have new camper vans parked on their driveways
These guys have told lie after lie so why can't they say where it was spent, Jesus this is the most corrupted government ever.?????
Arrest the lot of them.
Yet again more comes to light the SNP are completely out of their depth and it shows
If it has been ringfenced then it should be there and can be returned. If it has been spent on something else then it wasn't ringfenced. Seems as though 'ringfenced' means spend it on something else and if we can rob some more we may give it back.
They can’t even lie convincingly. 😡
Clarity, clear and transparency all words used by these politicians with absolutely no meaning..
All enquiries and bluster, never any punishment, they all need removing from power
If the money has been used to make a saving, then it has been used. Are these people living in the real world. If money is ring fenced then why hasn't it been used. I wonder if they did the same with the Education budget as well.
I agree, if it was offered up as a saving that would mean the money wasn't needed (now this might be legitimate e.g. where a project is shelved or rescoped). However in this case it had to be 'paid back' in full so it obviously is needed or earmarked for specific things, it cannot be argued it was a saving. It was moving money around to balance the books and cover a shortfall or overspend elsewhere. It is not a saving nor is it ringfencing - it is however 'pauchling'.
First they say they haven't put it in another account. Then they say they've shifted it to another account to make their shortfall look like less of a shortfall. More Nicoliar smoke and mirrors.
AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GOVERN SCOTLAND !
Yes it does boggle the mind,
Where are the records of its expenditure. It sounds as dodgy as You Know What.
You could not make this rubbish up
They just did...
So, the money is no longer ring-fenced in an account but has been used elsewhere and consequently now has to be recuperated from elsewhere in order to be returned to the Agricultural budget, something which will certainly not happen soon in this present fiscal climate. Lies, obfuscation and incompetence.
They have no intentions of returning anything, it’s been used for something they don’t want you to know about. What a load of waffle once again their trying to shift the blame to Westminster. Health & education has been neglected for+years. Waving his hands does not make it any more believable. Their all seasoned liars it’s a den of iniquity and needs shutting down completely.
Is this confident clown actually saying that this ringfenced money HAS been spent on other things but because it’s ‘ringfenced’ it will be returned on an un specified date in the future? That’s akin to a thief promising to repay the money after being caught.
that's exactly what it is
More chance of meeting the man in the moon.
Westminster should jail these people who have stolen the money to help the Scottish people starting with Nicola
fraud
It was ring fenced which means SNP should not have legally used it in any other area other than agriculture. The cabinet secretary obviously has no idea what the hell happened to it and her left hand man does know but dare not say and is so careful not to. Against any Accounting Regulations I am aware of to move ring fenced finance out of its designated area of spend. Absolute lies from the SNP twosome. Just to be clear……..we don’t know where £33M is right now - eh? This is false accounting and the investigating committee members should have called these two out. Am off into the garden to scream……..!
Keep coming back to this. There are clues in Georges’ wafflings. The money helped to reduce Govt. spending and balance the budget. It will be returned in the future sometime. Central finance will have the difficult job of finding where it is in the overall budget. It is not lying in any bank account. Oh yes it is ring fenced, but it is like a loan to other departments Committee member says - so it’s not ring fenced and George replies - yes it is ring fenced.
Rachel Hamilton is a Tory MSP but seemed not to understand the finance side and so timid.
Some senior politician (could this be an ex first minister) authorised this money to be moved but no committee member raised this line of questioning.
They know where it went but just don’t want to say. If it was used to shore up some other area, presumably the other area overspent.
Everyone knows that the SNP has laundered this money elsewhere but at the end of the day what results is this hearing going to achieve? I've watched a few of these things and there's obviously been dodgy things going on with how the SNP has done/doing things but nothing seems to get sorted or anyone gets held to account.
They can’t answer a question. If it’s ringfenced they should not have been taken out of the budget to cover their debts.
No one asked why the £33 million nad not been spent on agriculture in the first place. Someone had identified the requirement for £33 million within the agricultural sector in order for it to have been ring fenced (sic), so why was it not allocated?
F the farmers we need embassies
Ask Sturgeon and her Buddy Humza or Ian Blackford, and Swinney,
It was not allocated because those responsible are not competent... simples
@@oscarslater 👍👍👍
They need farmers squeezed to the point they have to sell to Bill Gates…..
Corruption at its finest.
Get the police in put these people in jail
so corrupt disgusting snp should all be removed she"s so defensivethey know where thatmoney is
Has no one ever asked for a proper explanation of why, if the money was ring fenced, it was ever taken out & used on something else. Politicians do waffle, saying it wasn’t spent elsewhere, if that were true they would be able to put that money back right now. Let’s face it, it’s not the only money that went missing is it? Why are there no prosecutions?
The horses have bolted but the stable doors are still there if the horses can be found so all is well and the stable is secure. I have a feeling those horses would have ended up in the knacker's yard by now but hope springs eternal.
They stole it!!
So how come there was a financial hole in the Scottish governments budgets that needed to be filled by using ‘ring fenced’ money from the agricultural budget? Why was this financial hole allowed to develop in the first place? Who allowed this to happen? It’s financial mismanagement whichever way you look at it and these questions need to be answered. It is not good enough to simply blame the British government - SNP needs to stand up and take responsibility for their financial neglect.
It’s clear that the civil servants work hand in hand with the SNP ….when all the time they are required to be objective and neutral .
"That money was just resting in my account..." I think I've tuned into a missing Father Ted episode.
In this skit, I don't think Mr Blobby could have played it any better than George Burgess.
They absolutely 'borrow' money from a ring fenced budget. They know they will be out of power after next election. IMO they will wait until a new government and then will blame them for not paying it back to the portfolio. Even local governments are NOT permitted to spend 1p of a ring fenced budget. I notice she said it could be years before it's repaid. Heads need to roll and if he's telling the truth then finance officers need to be sacked because it is illegal. Ring fenced means it cannot be touched even in an emergency. They should have a contingency fund for emergencies.
The cash got let out through a hole in the ring fence, into the next field, where it was admired from a safe distance by someone else, who needed to be impressed.
It's just having a wee rest for a year or two, before someone tries to chase it back through the hole!
If it's still there to be chased!
I think thats what the big lad was trying to say.😂
If its not where it is supposed to be then surely its a legal matter?