No Minister, You Can't Have It Both Ways!
Time and again.. the cover up is worse than the crime.
— Chris Musson (@ChrisMusson) November 15, 2024
Why not ..
1 Be totally honest about what happened
2 Set out justification
3 Make any apology needed
They've done 2 & 3 but not 1
Instead - yet again - it's drip, drip, drip from Scot Gov.. trying to obfuscate
SNP health minister Neil Gray insists he was on official Scotgov business when he accepted freebies at football matches involving Aberdeen and Scotland's national team:
"I want to make one thing very clear: the role of Ministers in attending events is clearly long established. It is undertaken by Ministers here and in every other administration in the UK. Indeed, I expect there are Ministers across the UK this week attending events, including sporting events, as official engagements."Yet Neil Gray was accompanied on these 'official visits' by a family member or one of his friends which doesn't make sense, of course.
Because how can an SNP minister be on official business and family business as the same time?