SNP - Rackets, Fiddles and Baloney Rules
The SNP's Michael Matheson is the latest government figure to benefit from baloney rules on severance payments when ministers resign from their posts - even in disgrace like Morocco Mike.
While this saga has dragged on for the past year Matheson has continued to draw his ministerial salary of £120,000 and he's now entitled to another £12,000 tax free - by way of a throughly undeserved 'golden goodbye'.
Truth is these rules were designed by MSPs for MSPs without any independent scrutiny - and the rotten system has not changed during the past 17 years of SNP government.
Fiddles, Rackets and SNP Rules (January 21, 2022)
A reminder from the archive that SNP's golden goodbye payments for MSPs and Scottish Ministers are a disgraceful racket - rather than a 'fiddle'.
The Scottish Parliament's baloney rules (designed by Ministers and MSPs) have never been independently reviewed during the SNP's 14 years uninterrupted in power.
SNP Rules - A Racket Not A Fiddle (October 08, 2021)
The Herald reports that the former SNP finance minister and MSP charged another £10,000 in expenses despite being absent from the Scottish Parliament for the past year.
The reality is the SNP let this chancer get away with murder, financially speaking, because Derek also walked away with a a £54,000 'golden goodbye' payment just because he ceased to be an MSP.
The problem is that the current system is a racket - governed by ludicrous rules made by MSPs which have never been independently reviewed during the past 14 years of SNP government.
