Nicola Sturgeon caught out by QC on why Kate Forbes wasn't at Gold Command meetings
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2024
- Nicola Sturgeon said that her “only motivation” during the Covid-19 pandemic was to do the “best we could” to keep people as safe as possible.
Ms Sturgeon was asked by Jamie Dawson KC why former finance secretary Kate Forbes did not attend Gold command meetings until 2021.
Mr Dawson showed notes from Liz Lloyd, Ms Sturgeon's Chief of Staff, from one Gold Meeting where finances had been discussed yet the SNP's Minister for Finance was not present.
The former first minister said that her office had been copied into emails about meetings and that Ms Forbes would have been able to attend had she wanted to. Mr Dawson said: “She wasn’t one of the right people to have at the table?”
Ms Sturgeon had previously argued that Ms Forbes wouldn't have been present at Gold Command meetings as financial issues may not have been discussed.
Ms Sturgeon said: “All I was interested in was having around the able the people that we needed to inform the decisions that we were taking.”
She insisted Ms Forbes was not excluded from any discussions she should have been party to and that she was an extremely valued member of cabinet as well as “competent and professional”.
Ms Sturgeon added: “I did not operate on any issue that sought to exclude people from decision making. I tried to lead from the front, I tried to shoulder my fair share of the decision making, sometimes deliberately more than my fair share, given the severity and the difficulty of decisions that were being made. I also had a responsibility to see the whole picture.”
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Her only motivation was to get one across on Boris. Despicable woman.
Don't see the problem with that.
@@begachka
She was supposed to be protecting the Scottish people in a time of national crisis - that should have been her number one priority.
One trick pony independence no matter what the cost to families.
@@begachkatypical response from a Krankie supporter 😂
@@begachka🤡
She is incapable of telling the truth.
She thinks we are all mugs.
The ones who voted for this creature are.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
She thinks the Scottish publics' heads button up the back!!
@@WeeShoeyDugless just the cults 😂😂
and she's is right, the SNP have been in power for 17 years put there by... err...mugs...
You Scots are YOU voted her in office
She is not a convincing liar...🤔
I’m convinced she’s a liar!
But a liar none the less😂😂
Big difference to her performances in front of the Scottish Parliament, where she knows no-one can stand up to her, or prove her wrong - because she has all the important figures in her pocket, and she knows most if not all the evidence has been taken care of or redacted or is deemed not in the public interest. She must have felt rather isolated here and is not used to being questioned by someone who is not in the slightest impressed by her 'power'. She looked like a cowed dog on occasion. I hope there is worse to come for her.
She is a filthy and malignant little lier who is not good at convincing people she is telling the truth.
She really doesn't come across as a convincing witness telling the truth.
Not heard a worse interview since Prince Andrew both thought they so clever pulling the wool over the people's eyes they kidded nobody with an IQ larger than a boiled egg
Relies on SNP folks voting her out of trouble.
That thing has NEVER told the truth.
She can’t spell truth, alarm bells went off in my head when she boasted in a tv interview that she vehemently despised Christianity.
So the question is what moral code does she live by? her actions that followed has shown she had no moral compass nor was she interested in the best for Scotland. Her and her Cabal systematically knowingly robbed the Scottish people’s revenue all the while slating Westminster for not handing over even more money for her to steal from the people to use on an ego venture like embassies totally unacceptable actions of a jumped up little power seeker who’s greed got the better of her even worse was her pursuit of power. Wouldn’t we all liked to have been a fly on the wall when the Shipman sisters took the decision to kill off our elderly In contaminated Care Homes how powerful did she feel then? That she had committed genocide of the people of Scotland did she sleep well because she had cut the pension bill with her actions? Strutting around with her vile army of blue faces that she was also taking for fools. This Branchform enquiry is becoming a joke something that’s costing the tax payers yet again why are the police dragging their heels? Perhaps finding it all too difficult to rub the mud off themselves and the judiciary who have looked the other way at the crimes being committed by a bunch of amateurs playing party politics fooling the people who supported them. What have we learned? Scotland paid a vey high price for Tony Blair’s experiment DISSOLVE THE DEVOLVED.
Wouldn’t know the truth if it bit her on the ass
Sturgeon knew everything that was going on and who was there. What a liar!
She is a micro manager and would NEED to know everything that was going on...
Correct, she is a revolting lying tyrant, full of hate and malice.
Even stevie Wonder could see why kate forbes was not there,she wouldn't lie for Sturgeon.
So nice to see Krankie squirming and waffling, seems she can easily remember things to her advantage but forgets anything of importance or relevance, what toady...
A lot like the post office managers who can't remember what was going on, she's a liar
She suffers from being a liar. 😢. The polite version is selective memory loss. A despicable excuse for a FM
Kate Forbes wasnt in the gang
Sounds like sturgeon couldn't trust Forbes to keep her secrets
That is very clear.
she is the only HONEST SNP member
Forbes had too much integrity to lie about what was going on and sturgeon knew that.
Cause Forbes would have challenged her.
Not one of the gang apparently, talks finance and the finance minister wasn’t involved
A lie detector should be mandatory. Swearing on oath obviously doesn’t work with some people.
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She'd beat any lie detector that bitch!
She would break it, as it would go off the scale 🤣😂🤣😂
l think she should get a gold medal for telling lies
I’d award her a framed pair of platinum knee-pads for selling over one million lies.
he is a brilliant kc
If there was only four of them there how hard can it be to remember. She is a pathological liar .
Her tactic is to talk so much that people start leaving the room.
She really does believe that she can waffle herself out of absolutely everything, it's excruciating to watch.
You've got to have a good memory to be a good liar - she can't remember anything
Bet she wishes she'd taken private notes at the meetings now. . .
She is a shameless liar
Great to see her squirming
Nicola taking oath ...Hand on a bible.....No.
Kate taking oath......Hand on bible ....Yes .
That tells you why, Kate was not at the meetings.
Forbes wasn’t part of Krankies clique
Kate has a brain and could be trusted
@@TheLauders11 No she wasn’t she was part of Goves clique, hence Freeport Kate and less said about sleekit sturgeon the better.
Keep digging your hole, you do not know when to stop.
The force is dark with this one !
She is darkness ....
The Force or the Farce?
Those black,soulless eyes...something of the Aleister Crowley about her
Her only motivation was to score points over Boris and England at every opportunity.❤
utter trout unbelievable liar unbearable to listen to
Continuing to lie so she could hide missing funds
never heard so much drivvle in my whole life
Good man, Jamie Dawson KC
I had a boss like this women - could not stop talking once started and said nothing meaningful, talk talk for the sake of it. She loves her own voice. She has let the people of Scotland down, not to be trusted.
God help you delusional Scott's help yourself get rid please
That sounds like every woman I've ever worked with.
@@apollomemories7399😂😂😂
@@apollomemories7399😂😂😂
SQUIRM SQUIRM SQUIRM SQUIRM SQUIRM - WHAT A LIAR !!!
She just cant help lying,you have to be a special person to keep spouting lie after lie
WHY KATE FORBES WASNT THEIR, Easy she not corrupt and honest maybe nicola 57 nos & dont nos last inquiry
Shame on Scottish Sun you supported this SNP liar for 8 years.
SPOT ON!!!
Her recollection on some things is so convincing and then absolutely no idea I smell something
The body language is a giveaway and boy does she waffle.
"Finance was becoming more of an issue" yet they did not have Kate Forbes - the Finance minister , present in the meetings ? And Kate Forbes does not know why.
Her "Office " was notified, but Forbes was NOT invited to attend the meetings. Anyone who knows anything about setting up meetings, Agendas and invitations to attendees can see right through this. There was an "inner circle" that Forbes was not part of. Minutes were not taken and decisions were just notified without any record.
Management training was clearly lacking but is essential for politicians and / or their secretaries and civil servants. Devolution is a failed experiment costing the country Billions.
Forbes was just asked to attend when they were desperate to get UK funding to lock us down again.
The biggest Gay Club in Edinburgh is the Scottish Parliament, and Forbes ain't welcome
Forbes was almost certainly excluded for being both honest and heterosexual.
Rubbish..
@@Bobby-xr4bo Bobby didn't watch the Covid enquiry !
She is the prime example of why people don't trust any politcal party,no matter who your alliance are to.. I'm 62 and year's ago a MP was held in high regard.. today, most people think there just as corrupt as a thief,embesling tax payers money for fun..
I think you'll find that she was trusted during the pandemic, and that her ratings were fine at that point. The damage was done over party finances, mostly academic now because she was already gone by the time that broke. Most of this is fuelled by animosity - she has never an easy person to deal with and her reputation has also gone down with the rest of her party - jaded and in power too long. But for perspective, the SNP have never been as corrupt as their predecessors of 46 years, which is why they are still in power.
@@begachka idiot.m
@@begachka Too bad we’re living in the now, not in the past - the record of their performance, probity and competence during their term of (self) service is plain for all to see. How much are the Scottish public on the hook for the Lochaber smelter deal, one wonders - or the cost of upgrading harbours for not fit for purpose ferries that still have not been completed?
A litany of failure, corruption and ineptitude is the legacy of the Natsis under her tenure and that of her anointed protege.
We seen some woeful schemite type corruption with Labour but, I'm also 62yrs, Schools ,Health Policing, Employment, civic Amenities all down the plug hole anybody not seeing this as an all time record is playing the fool and its the kids who will pay.
Most people, just like yourself, are absolutely correct about that.
4.44. She (Kate Forbes) was NOT one of the Right People to have around the table? Then waffle, waffle BUT no answer.
Kate's anti-LGBT...It's a club,and she ain't in it!
"I don't have the thing in front of me that would force me to tell the truth..."
How does Turdgeon remember, there were no minutes?
That is WHY she can Remember, NO Paper Trail to PROVE her Lies.
The Salmond Enquiry there WAS a paper trail so Sturgeon couldn't Remember, Recall or Recount ANYTHING that showed her LIES!
Why is this woman still walking the streets? If she walks free it will be the greatest travesty of justice!
A despicable human being imo.
No matter what country, politicians are bent as a nine bob note
Forbes wasn't there because I didn't tell her about the meeting. If I had told her about the meeting she would have been there. Only slightly true thing she said!
KC not QC, that said, if you read a transcript of Sturgeon's mumbles it confirms the struggles she has trying to weave through her own web of lies. Amazing for someone who constantly
tells investigators ' she can't recall'
When she’s caught out she talks like someone falling downstairs and trying to save her ass before hitting the bottom.
Even now she still wants to blame Westminster for her errors.
Why would she change the habits of a lifetime?
If she were being interviewed by the police, all her answers would be NO COMMENT!
Great comment
I don’t have the information in front of me at the moment it’s on my burner phone
Other words she used. The pandemic to further her push for independence at the cost of poeples lives 😢😢😢disgusting
KC not QC. Sturgeon, so so many words but nothing said. What a slaver 🤯
Making it up on the hoof again..😂 where is the list.....it's an inquiry after all...😂
Never was so much said about so little with so many words.
Oh dear selective amnesia again , she really must book a GP appointment to get that checked out, no wait theres a massive waiting list.
Despicable. The ferry fiasco, Watts app deletion , missing 600k , the health secretary bill for Internet on holiday. We have the worst drugs record in Europe, highest taxes on record and an NHS on its knees. What have they done for Scotland.
Makes you wonder who the heck kept voting for them year after year?
But, but, but.....the baby box!!!!!!
She doesn’t seem to remember anything apparently. Appertaining to being FM . What a lying Grifter .
Fairy tales after fairy tales , telling the truth? You must be joking. Nicky would need a stay in hospital to recover if she ever told the truth
Squirming in her seat , panic talking .
She was only wanting those she could manipulate at those meetings Forbes office might have been informed but not invited
Let’s be clear nothing happened in Sturgeons administration without her agreeing it first. NOTHING.
There's a missing £600k juggernaut coming her way!
Why use one word when a 1000 will do?
You silly people; don't you realize I am great leader? Let me explain to you again how well we ran fantastic meetings and took amazing decisions about really important things.
This is the biggest liar I have ever witnessed
The worm is on the hook. 👍🇬🇧
I don't know why your questioning her she's just going to lie
The wee laugh and head nodding tells you everything 🤥
The whole of the UK should have been under the same rules. This is a small island and the pandemic was nothing but a political pantomime.
They read the
dregs in the booze glasses and made policy decisions
I thought there was no decisions made in "gold command" ?
Only the chosen few could attend 😊
The person in charge of public spending should have been involved at every meeting
Liar is written all over her face, it’s always a political issue with krankie
The coven at work
Beanflicker covern!
I had an old car that stuttered and stalled less than Sturgeon does Jamie Dawson is very skilled at playing to Sturgeons vanity and allowing her to trip herself up, I bet she needed a stiff drink after this bashing. Very good. I suspect Kate was not in any of the meetings because Sturgeon feared another ambitious strong woman who could see through all of Sturgeons waffle. Sturgeons inner circle was made up of compliant sycophants who S could mould to her way of thinking.
The lies and deceit goes on what a despicable person
Kate Forbes tells the truth so you wouldn’t have wanted her there!!
As we say in Scotland 'she jist wisnae therr'!
She's out her depth when scrutinised. 😂 Nicoliar
Pants on fire.
I wonder if the Gold Command meetings were when they came up with the cut a few inches off the bottom of classroom doors nonsense. Gold indeed.
Aye, Comedy Gold
That was a belter
A lot of fkn waffle.
More Blethers.
Listen to this used car saleswoman, if she wasn’t there on the first meeting surly she’d ask where Kate Forbes was, it was obvious she wasn’t wanted
This dispicable woman if I remember right on every news interview criticized Boris at every opportunity when the political partys should have been seen to be coming together knowing the hardship and mental state of what the pandemic was doing to people but all she was obsessed about was getting one up on the UK government..
Wriggling like a worm on a hook
Liar.
Something Something darkside.
According to body analyst experts they say rapid eye lid movement is a sign the person is lying, and glancing away from the person asking the questions when describing a situation is also a give away sign that the person is lying.
No wonder Sturgeon is a practicing lawyer no more, she is crap! She would have an innocent client sent down.
Which body analyst experts
@@Bobby-xr4bo Research!
@@D0csavage1 that’s convinced me .. can’t argue with it…
@@Bobby-xr4bo There are plenty of body analysis experts here on CZcams that offer their opinion on the famous prince Andrew interview.
She's smart. Running the Covid timeline out for as long as is possible. Then, in 3 -4(6) months time there will be very little interest in ' Where is all the money? '. Is the ferry ferrying? How is the SNP account audit coming along? No Further Interest.
- She hopes -
Sturgeon looks like she hasn’t slept for weeks……good! A liars memory has to be perfect and it’s hard to remember a lie.
Kate Forbes for FM
Forbes is just like any other politician, she's using this opportunity to further her own career and trying to come across as little miss innocent
Nope, no more SNP
Not while she's an SNP member.
No finance minister at any of the gold meetings...... Very strange
I would like to know what the messages were between the welsh government labour leader and the snp and her because the welsh leader deliberately deleted his messages and even denied having the messages but he later admitted to deleting the messages ⚠️
Every question raised by the KC crushes Sturgeon's house of cards defence.
Wee Jimmy’s excuses from least to most popular:
“Ah dinnae Ken.”
“It wisnae me.”
“Ah cannae remember as ah suffer fae selective memory loss.”
“It’s no ma fault.”
“A big laddie done it and ran away.”
“It’s all the fault of the English and can we have some more money because I am so incompetent.”
Truly useless and corrupt. An embarrassment to Scotland 🏴.
Now if only she had kept the messages she could have referred to them to find out why.
He’s one smart cookie…got krankie tied in knots,priceless 😂😂😂😂😂🇬🇧
Why use one word , when a complete dictionary, and a thesaurus will do. …
A fool
12:50 Demonstrably false: she was a controller who conferred with only a small cabal.
Got found out again Nich 😡😡😡😡🏴
If only we had the minutes of these meetings, how convenient they changed policy before covid, plenty to hide then
She led from the front 😳 in her motor home
Was there an answer to any of the questions there ??