To say the SNP have a disastrous record on transport would be putting it lightly. The ferries don’t run on time (if at all), the mystery of the motorhome remains unsolved and the nationalists still haven’t dualled Scotland’s most dangerous road. Perhaps then it’s no surprise to hear that former first minister Nicola Sturgeon and her husband (and former party chief executive) Peter Murrell have been caught driving an untaxed car around town.
It took an awkward phone call from the Sun newspaper for the couple to rectify the late tax, overdue by eight days. Sturgeon and Murrell may now receive a ‘late licensing penalty’ letter and an £80 fine. Mr S appreciates the pair have a lot on their mind just now, but more dealings with the police will hardly remedy their situation.
If Mr S was being generous to the nationalist power couple, he might point out that they are not the first senior SNP figures to have committed driving offences. The party’s deputy leader and former justice secretary Keith Brown had neglected to renew his car tax after it ran out last week. It was an ‘embarrassing blunder’, admitted Brown. Though still not up there in the SNP’s top ten…
And even First Minister Humza Yousaf has slipped up. Yousaf was fined £300 for driving without insurance while he was none other than the party’s minister for transport. The jokes really do write themselves…
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