SNP minister owns lovely family home in Linlithgow. Does not qualify for EAA. Buys home in Banff and Buchan, changes his primary residence to that home. Sells family home, makes a profit. Buys new home in Linlithgow down the street from his former home, and gets to claim the EAA.
Last night Mr Stevenson – who swapped the three-storey family home in Linlithgow which he and his wife bought in 1974 for the more modest £170,000 house in the same town – said he had done nothing wrong.
He’s right — he’s not done anything legally wrong. Ethically, he’s as bad as the rest of them. The EAA allows MPs to profit from real estate, with the taxpayer picking up the tab. Neil should totally go into politics.
watched bad music videos (and enjoyed them) till 1.30am
helped out at my cousin’s daughter’s princess-themed birthday party (just normal helping, I was most certainly not in costume)
didn’t leave my cousin’s till 11pm (yes, the kids had gone to bed by 8)
kind of slept in
did my weekly shop in Livingston and had a quick break in the designer outlet’s Costa branch (then dropped into Clarks and got super cute leather shoes)
Holy crap, I really am an infant. I just choked quite painfully on a chunk of chorizo, in an ‘ohmygod I’m going to need the Heimlich and this is really gonna hurt ohmygod ohmygod… it’s gone down, but damn, my throat feels bruised’ way.
(It’s not gone down all the way, but enough that I just feel slight discomfort, not pain and panic.)
Lesson learned. Bite of SMALL chunks of sausage, DO NOT pop the whole snack-sized meat clump in one’s mouth, because the KLUTZ of the CENTURY will always find a way to turn it into a mini-emergency. It is no freaking wonder I don’t chew gum. Can you imagine if I tried to WALK at the same time? Disaster would strike!