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Aye. It was a misdemeanour (or various misdemeanours) as previously commented! I watched this action from the very beginning and the FM defaulted (in the parliamentary debating chamber) to allow an independent parliamentary enquiry to take place and to allow civil servants/legal advisors to consider any action to follow as well as applying some distance to a perceived "minefield" of controversy attached to the whole sorry episode. My default re this story is that Nicola Sturgeon was never the offender/the accused in this affair at all and the insinuation that she/they obstructed the enquiry at every turn does have some relevance but a lot of it is still speculative TBF!! Also the shock on her face when this revelation initially "broke out" in the media was 100% genuine, no doubt in my mind! And obstruction to achieve what end?????? To protect her position or to protect the female accusers who appeared to be at the forefront of this story? Is it the case that she didn't want to compromise herself with any of these people incl Salmond???? A truly intractable position to be in and could it be the case that there is an element of protecting one's own self interest esp when the evidence is not as foolproof as many people seem to think it is i.e. the conspiracy theorists who were never involved in any of this shit anyway. Therefore it all becomes speculative and possibly "messy". The FM appears before the parliamentary investigative committee in a couple of weeks, as does Salmond. So more info may unravel after that stage of the enquiry. Btw the idea, esp coming from the Tories (who would love it to happen!), that she should resign is real "cloud cuckooo land stuff" coming from political people who do not like her or her high popularity in Scotland and esp after witnessing worse actions by people within Johnson's govt, their political masters. Eg listening to the orchestrations of that little shit heid of a Scot Tory non-entity DROSS, who could never "lace Sturgeon's or Salmond's boots" in a political sense, just makes me baulk in utter amazement at the huge "vested interest and bias" as well as more of the hypocrisy that this man espouses.