£500,000 plus costs, down the drain for nothing as the lawyers for Scotgov had "reservations" about its court battle with Alex Salmond more than two months before it conceded the case.
Salmond had said the government was told in October 2018 that it was likely to lose the case.
The government only conceded the following January that its investigation into complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney has now admitted that concerns were raised.
But he insisted there were "good public policy arguments and reasonable grounds" to continue contesting the case.
The government ultimately had to pay Mr Salmond's legal fees of more than £500,000 on top of its own costs after its admitting its investigation had been unlawful.
This following collective Scotgovs bottle crashing yesterday to save the hopeless Swinneys ass.
The Deputy First Minister, agreed to release Scotgovs legal advice on Alex Salmond’s court action after facing cross-party censure in Holyrood initiated by the Tories, supported by the Greens, who usually pull them out the shit, Labour and Liberals.
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On the other hand Starmer and General Secretary David Evans,
Labour agrees to pay ‘substantial damages’ to Panorama whistleblowers.
Labour agreed to paid over £600,000 to seven whistleblowers over “defamatory and false allegations’’ made following a BBC Panorama investigation into antisemitism.
The Party also issued an unreserved apology to the former staff members and to John Ware, the journalist who presented the July 2019 programme.
Ironically Starmer and Evans for their own narrow politically motivated reasons, as a way of marginalizing the party’s left wing,
totally ignored the advice of Labour's legal team not to settle as Labour would win.
The only difference was that the wasted £500k was tax payers money and the wasted £600k was Labour Party members money.
No matter still an awful lot of money to blow.
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