Scotland is run like an insolvent company! Dave Murray hits out

Dave Murray has claimed that Scotland is being run like an insolvent company!

The former Rangers Chairman and owner was using that term as a criticism.

Clearly Murray has undergone an irony bypass since he was running an insolvent football club for over a decade.

In order to put a competitive team in the park Murray set up disguised remuneration scams. To the cost of the public purse.

Barry Ferguson, Stefan Klos, Neil McCann, Steven Thompson, Billy Dodds and Alex McLeish were all heavily involved. Ferguson and McLeish made millions without having National Insurance and Income Tax deducted.

Paying players in line with other clubs wasn’t on for the Ibrox Chairman. In that case for every £10m spent on players and managers around £5m would be deducted to Her Majesty, Prince Andrew’s mum. Only a token £1m went to HMRC with the other £4m shared among the players.

Murray provided copies of token contracts to the SFA and SPL while sending millions of pounds into offshore accounts.

MURRAY ROBBED THE PUBLIC PURSE TO KEEP FERGUSON, MCCANN AND DODDS HAPPY

To keep players and their WAGS happy Murray denied schools, hospitals, nurseries and the armed forces precious funds.

Alongside his Rangers ‘scheme’ his debt laden business was passed from the Bank of Scotland to The Halifax and onto Lloyds.

Lloyds were horrified by what they inherited.

Yet Murray is still given a platform as a business leader. A man of vision. Someone to listen to and be respected. Nothing could be further from the truth.

With a nod to his famous ‘for every fiver Celtic spend’ quote, The Scotsman reports Murray saying:

For every £100 we take in in tax, we’re spending £120. We’ve got nearly a 12% GDP deficit. It’s unsustainable. If we’re a business we’re trading insolvently, we can’t go on like this.

My main gripe is the waste in projects. When I was in Glasgow last week, I took the car past the new Barlinnie (prison) getting built. Already it’s going to be more than double the price, and already it’s not big enough.

Then I carried through to Airdrie-Coatbridge and the site of the new Monklands hospital, which I’m told if it’s finished for 2033 it could be £2 billion. I do not understand.

We seem to make the same mistakes again and again. Where’s the discipline in building projects?

The Aberdeen bypass, the Aberdeen hospital, the Sick Kids in Edinburgh – when they’re building it, halfway through they realise (it’s) not the right filters in the system.

Surely somebody must be held responsible. These are massive projects which are not being controlled properly.

To be fair to Murray he knows a lot about running an insolvent company.

Much of the escalating costs are down to masonic cartels. They have an iron grip across much of Scottish society and industry.

After years of trying to sell Rangers Murray accepted £1 from Craig Whyte in May 2011.

Whyte had wiped his Google history two years earlier. Murray’s favourite newspaper presented Whyte as a billionaire. His favourite reporter described the man from Motherwell as having wealth off the radar.

While in charge of Rangers Murray knew the background of every sports reporter in Scotland. He knew the schools that they attended and the teams that they supported.

After six months of negotiating Murray claimed that he had been duped. The media messengers published that claim without any questionin