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Way I see it if you 100% believe the FM then you somehow are buying her incredulous story about forgetting the meeting with Aberdein (Ecks staffer) and buying the laughable accounts of both her and her husband about the meetings at her home. I mean c'mon they just are not credible to anyone with the slightest bit of awareness.

Sturgeon can just deny and front this out because her government have obstructed and deceived the committee set up to investigate this at every point, and are STILL doing so. There are huge questions over who set up the March 29th meeting and what was discussed and by whom. That information is required, Aberdein's statement and the November legal advice to be able to form an accurate picture of what happened.

In short I'm not best pleased with the way she and the SG have behaved in all this and its proven highly embarrassing for Scotland. I'm not sure whether she got caught out trying to cover up for eck and had to row back, or that her and hubby saw a way to remove him from the independence debate and it spiralled out of control....Either way not an earthly do I believe her story.

Committee is a farce, there shouldn't even be a Committee for something so minor, you look at Westminster and the lies/cover ups/unlawful contracts and there is zero accountability too any of it.

On the Committee, the evidence is lacking there and the Committee members are seen in not great light in Scotland, we have Baillie who has already made her mind up spouting off on TV stations against Committee rules and we have clear smearing and false statements from certain Unionists on that Committee during it. Nicola handled it well.

'He said, she said' just doesn't cut it. 5000 members signed up to the SNP in a day and independence polls went up again after Nicola spoke so she's done something right, she acted in good faith and that's what the public like.

I'm repeating myself as I said this a long time - Nicola Sturgeon is highly regarded at home and abroad for a lotta reasons but one of the main ones in Scotland is that many people still regard her as "the girl next door who made it to the top in government"! It is obviously not the only reason but it is one of the main ones at grassroots level. I've personally met her a couple of times in Leith community circles and she comes over as a really genuine person, contrary to some of the scurrilous stuff that is bandied about in SM circles. Lets move to a hypothetical worst case scenario where by some chance the FM was removed from office by these conspiring Unionist c#### due to a breach of whatever Ministerial Code one wants to pick out from a "minefield" of poss breaches that a senior govt official could possibly incur while a whole group of sneering toxic Tories mocked Scotland and the Scottish population in their lofty Brit govt position where far worse unlawful practises and breaches are being committed by them with impunity and they remain place no matter what!!! That situation would be unforgiveable and that negative book title, "The Tragedy of Scotland", would be so fitting and deserving! However, I doubt that will happen - only a hypothesis but the impact on the country, plus the repercussions, would be horrendous and that is why these Tory bastards, the RW media and complicit Unionist allies like Baillie (who should've been forcibly removed from that committee for code of conduct breaches together with the partial Murdo Fraser!!!) wanna bring her down.