Thread by @DeanMThomson

So, what on earth is going on in Angus?

So far we've seen the SNP being told to repay £20,000 in #Covid19 support grants. Money originally intended to support small businesses, instead used to support nationalist politicking.
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It's clear that Tim Rideout was teaching SNP supporters ways to 'game' the Covid business support grants.

But not just that, proceeding to also encourage a diversion of funds to his own group.
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And his facebook boast "I have made over £50k for the indy cause today" stands ingloriously out there for all to see.
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The damning silence from the SNP is an unacceptable response to this growing scandal.

A mentality of "nothing to see here" doesn't cut it.
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And he wasn't just doing all of this on facebook either, tweets which might pertain to all of this is also emerging.
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If you have a small business, struggling to get through
Covid, I'd be more angry if I were you. This is nothing short of shameless gaming of business grants.

We're witnessing a collapse of conventionally accepted standards of behaviour & ethics. Impropriety as normality.
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This is what a full-blown authentic scandal looks like:👇

https://twitter.com/thecourieruk/status/1377984437271494656?s=20

Just in case anyone is still not quite getting it: Dr Tim Rideout is SNP national officer. And he coached nationalist activists on how to get covid support grants, then requested donations from them.

It's a scandal. It's unethical. It's improper.