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| 41. Author: jake89 Date: Mon 13th Nov 2023. 14:19 And regardless of who you vote for, this doesn`t appear possible to be changed. If this is truly the case, surely it`s one for an international court? Reply |
| 42. Author: Parboiled Date: Mon 13th Nov 2023. 16:15 Cheer up chaps, Hamza Half Wit’s Minister for (snort) Independence is about to launch a paper on Indy Scotland rejoining the EU! Reply |
| 43. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Mon 13th Nov 2023. 19:42 Tenruh, Mon 13 Nov 06:31 So if Alba dont have the answer to Indy, why should someone change vote for them? Their only real policy is illegal… Reply |
| 44. Author: Parboiled Date: Wed 15th Nov 2023. 20:26 Matheson making statement tomorrow. No doubt to explain why the highest usage on his IPad was 2 January, not a busy day for constituency business - was there any footie on? Reply |
| 45. Author: red-star-par Date: Wed 15th Nov 2023. 20:59 Parboiled, Wed 15 Nov 20:26 This is obviously a pressing matter for you Parsboiled. I`m more concerned about the 170million down the drain with this Rwanda nonsense, but yeah, let`s concentrate on an 11k bill. Reply |
| 46. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Wed 15th Nov 2023. 22:12 red-star-par, Wed 15 Nov 20:59 That will be £170m well spent when they remove us from the ECHR…..mind you the billions that will then be required on a new war in Ireland may not be worth it… Reply |
| 47. Author: jake89 Date: Wed 15th Nov 2023. 22:53 Hate to break it to the foaming at the mouth Daily Mail readers on here, but that data use is almost certainly from Teams or Zoom video calls. Amazing how much detail we`re able to get on an MSPs tablet usage but are still waiting for more detail on a Tory Peer defrauding the taxpayer of hundreds of millions of pounds. Reply |
| 48. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 07:18 Parboiled, Wed 15 Nov 20:26 Keeping well Parbo ? £7000 of data used that day the day Celtic played Newgers. The Scottish Parliament will lead the way in honesty and transparency, pass the redacter pen John Post Edited (Thu 16 Nov 07:19) Reply |
| 49. Author: Parboiled Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 08:20 “Teams or Zoom video calls” ...on a day when nobody is working? Only a total Zoomer could come up with that! Anyway he must be resigning. Unless it’s Westminster’s fault... Reply |
| 50. Author: jake89 Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 08:43 Parboiled, Thu 16 Nov 08:20 Again, at risk of blowing your mind, people DO make business calls at the weekend and on holidays. I`ve already had a call with one of my team and neither of us are officially on the clock yet. 🤯 Labour anti-Semitism, Tory fraud and Parboiled`s obsessed with an £11k phone bill the minister has offered to pay himself 🤦♂️ Reply |
| 51. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 08:52 jake89, Thu 16 Nov 08:43 Jake, you'll no catch the auld yin with comments so obvious. 🎣 🎣 🎣 🎣 🎣 Post Edited (Thu 16 Nov 08:56) Reply |
| 52. Author: The One Who Knocks Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 09:42 From an article in The Herald; "The EE statement suggests that the minister`s £10,935.74 bill was for using roughly 7GB of data between December 28 and January 3. The bill does not reveal the websites visited or the apps used. The breakdown shows Mr Matheson incurred the highest charges on December 28, where 1.26 GB of data cost £2,249.17, and January 2, where 3.89GB of data cost £8666.39. Mr Matheson has always insisted the costs related “solely to parliamentary and constituency-related work” that he carried out during the trip. However, there are questions over what amount of work he was doing to use so much of data. According to EE, sending 175 emails every day for a month would use 2GB. Using twice that in a day, as he did on January 2, would be more in line with streaming films or TV shows or football matches. One Tory MSP pointed out that Celtic were playing on the two days with the most data used. "The 28th Dec and the 2nd Jan, are both notable for significant football matches: Hibs v Celtic and Celtic v Rangers. A coincidence? We need the full truth," Stephen Kerr wrote on X, the site formerly known as Twitter." As is so often the case it`s not the original misdemeanor that`s the problem it`s the attempt to cover it up. If he just said from the start `I messed up and didn`t realise I was running up such a high bill while using the parliamentary tablet for personal use during my down time. I will of course reimburse the full amount due.`, that would have been that and it while it would have raised a snigger it wouldn`t have raised an eyebrow. But no, he had to go with the line that it was constituency work and only constituency work that racked up such a bill. As that saying goes, `you don`t need a good memory if you always tell the truth` And although my eyes were open They just might as well be closed Reply |
| 53. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 11:29 If he had come clean in January and paid the bill he would certainly have been applauded for his honesty , but to have us pay the bill then wait till the publics reaction 10 months later then try backtracking was stupidity. Just tell the truth at the the earliest opportunity. Reply |
| 54. Author: wee eck Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 11:58 It will be interesting to hear what he has to say. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Why has it taken so long to come to public attention? Why didn`t the Scottish Parliament IT expert insist on seeing the browser history? Couldn`t the SP have taken more forceful action to switch the SIM card? There is also a curious statement included in the BBC report when the story first broke :- `The £11,000 bill is more than the total of all MSPs` mobile phone, business line, tablet and staff phone bill expenses claimed in 2022/23 combined. The total for all phone-related expenses last year was £9,507.` Isn`t that figure incredibly low? Reply |
| 55. Author: LochgellyAlbert Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 12:01 Must have been a rotten holiday sitting in a room watching films and the ugly sisters! Has he not heard about a VPN? Post Edited (Thu 16 Nov 12:02) Reply |
| 56. Author: parsfan Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 13:15 Sounds like he`s about to blame his family. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The universe is ruled by chance and indifference  Reply |
| 57. Author: Parboiled Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 13:28 “ more has been discovered” says Hamza at FMQ’s.. Reply |
| 58. Author: Tenruh Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 14:48 parsfan, Thu 16 Nov 13:15 Bang-on....got to secure the £50,000 per year demotion would bring.. Who believes him ? So why didn't he cough up in January..... Post Edited (Thu 16 Nov 14:49) Reply |
| 59. Author: Dave_1885 Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 16:11 Has claimed his kids were watching the football on it 🤦🏻♂️ what a shocker Reply |
| 60. Author: Buspasspar Date: Thu 16th Nov 2023. 19:23 He has to resign .. Lie after Lie until he was caught and still Lied .. We are forever shaped by the Children we once were Reply |
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