WhatsApp, Doc?
The Scottish government has auto-deleted its integrity. My Times column on the WhatsApp scandal https://t.co/0QDf2CUWvG
— Iain Macwhirter (@iainmacwhirter) October 30, 2023
Iain Macwhirter on the missing messages mystery which is beginning to look like an organised cover-up, but where indeed was Scotland's 'independent' civil service when SNP politicians were behaving with such a terrible lack of integrity?
"It should’ve been self-evident to ministers that deleting electronic messages is as reckless as deleting emails and paper documents. Indeed, it beggars belief that civil servants didn’t raise this matter with ministers at the time they were apparently deleting WhatsApp conversations en masse. They must have known that this would look like the crudest of cover-ups."