Absolutely extraordinary — this wasn’t domestic abuse based on a power in-balance between a man and a woman: you were first minister of Scotland, he was the CEO of the party you led, and the money was not your’s anyway: it was donated by ordinary independence supporters. While you were reading books from your handcrafted bookcases, writing with your luxury pens, drinking coffee from your top of the line coffee machines , and carrying your papers around in designer folders and bags using money he stole, women up and down the country were — as they have always been — suffering real financial abuse (and worse) by controlling men. As First Minister and leader of the SNP you had real legal and moral responsibilities to ensure that your CEO acted above the law and did not squander the money for his and your own domestic bliss. We know from the evidence released so far you chose to abrogate those responsibilities by repeatedly blocking colleagues’ attempts to investigate. Conflating what you did with thousands of women who suffer domestic abuse from their husbands might be clever rhetoric but shows a shocking attempt to make their suffering your own for personal and political gain.
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