We have an update, folks.
Because they don’t even care about keeping their bullshit straight.
So the full sequence now runs:
(1) “The money isn’t missing, it’s all still there and ringfenced for a second indyref. Anyone who says otherwise is a loony conspiracy theorist.”
(2) “Okay, it’s not ringfenced, it’s woven in with everything else but it’s there and we will only spend it on a second indyref.”
(3) “We’ve still got all the money, even though it’s not in our bank account, and we’ve set up a special unit that’s going to spend it right now ‘on independence’, even though there’s no second indyref.”
(4) “Okay, the guy who was going to be in charge of spending it has quit in mysterious circumstances and the ‘independence unit’ doesn’t exist any more, and we’re not letting the treasurer look at the books to see where the money is so he’s resigned, but it’s all still there waiting for the imminent second indyref, honest.”
(5) “Okay, we’ve spent SOME of it but the rest is all still there, it’s just invisible and we can’t show it to you, though we could if we wanted to. The important thing is that there’s definitely none of it missing.”
(6) “Okay, we’ve spent about quarter of a million pounds of it now, despite there being no second indyref, although we can’t tell you what it was spent on, and there’s still absolutely loads left.”
(7) “There’s no missing money, we’ve still got it all. Sure, it’s not in the bank, but we’ve given ourselves an IOU or something and it’ll all magically appear when there’s a second indyref.”
(8) “Okay, we spent the lot, despite the continuing absence of a second indyref, but we can’t be any more specific about what we spent it on. Just, you know, general SNP stuff. The exact thing we said we WOULDN’T spend it on.”
And now,
(9) “We couldn’t spend it because our chief executive stole it, but if we get it back from him then we definitely will spend it – not on a second indyref, because there isn’t going to be one, but on SOMETHING, we just can’t say what, and frankly it’s pretty tasteless of you to even ask because we’re victims of a crime, actually.”
Even when they think they’ve gotten clean away with it, lying about it is now so ingrained that they just can’t stop.
Maybe we should ask John Swinney to tell the story backwards. Because at worst, he couldn’t make very much more of a mess of it than he is now.
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