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On my phone contract (I appreciate its a personal contract rather than a business plan encompasing maybe hundreds of sims)..
If I go over my roaming allowance (which comes out of the same pot as domestic data), I get directed to three's website and can't do anything else.
It then give me an option to buy additional one off data top ups, or change my contract for one with more data.
He's doubling down on the bullshine though...
The kids set up a hot spot partly circumventing the 'why did you let them watch wendyball on the company idiotPad?' question but not 'Why did you let them piss about in the config?' (and why was the config not locked down - oh ITSec, how could you...).
Then he didn't say it was his kids doing last Friday as he was protecting them. Yeah right...
I wonder if he's due an eye test near Durham soon... Sounds like the same level of incredible bullshine...
I'm with TJ on this.
Hold your hands up, apologise, pay the bill. The world moves on.
Instead he's going to face losing his job, likely more journalists looking into his and other MSP affairs, and be forever the chap who lied about abusing parliamentary IT equipment while on a family holiday....
He might have downloaded Debby does Dumbarton for all we know, this probably goes on all the time wasting public funds while getting a very good salary
Look at previous 1st minister ex East Fife player , got caught and had to pack in but on a fantastic pension
What a simpering, lying, disgrace of a of a human being, not fit to represent his cat’s litter tray, never mind a constituency. The excuse ‘I was protecting my family’ is risible and shows complete disregard for the intelligence of the people he is supposed to be represent. Assuming it was his sons that used his iPad, there’s no way they would have got the flack. He should have had the balls to say ‘I allowed my family to use it, it was a mistake, I shouldn’t have done it, I’ll pay the bill’ and move on. Instead we had the pathetic charade played out over the last week, ending in crocodile tears and a contemptuous excuse. Filed under ‘MPs will be MPs.’
I'll let him off as he was watching Celtic games 😁
The funny thing is that at Marakech airport arrivals there is an army of staff from a local mobile network who will put in their sim and set it all up for you with enough data for your holiday for £20 or similar.
I wouldn't expect him to put that in his works ipad as Govt security would do their nut but why wouldn't you have personal devices for family use?!
Up there someone said it was a backroom failing that the old sim wasn't swapped. I bet IT support have been at him for ages asking for the ipad to come back and he's just too busy...
Not like he wasn't warned.
Last year I drove to Denmark via the Harwich ferry. Whilst waiting for boarding I had the bright idea of downloading the Google map areas for the route whilst in the UK so avoiding excess roaming charges.
It was a night crossing so I basically parked the car and the famy went to the straight to the cabin and to bed. Next morning I looked at my phone and the fitst message was you have used £150 of data roaming. Wtf! Then I saw the sign on the dressing table that warned about the onboard roaming charges. Those couple of mb that must have been Google maps finishing uploading was the only data I used. So much for saving on roaming charges!
Amazing that this is the lead story on the BBC, over and above Gaza and Rwanda – meanwhile, the billions that was ‘lost’ by the Tory government through dodgy PPE contracts to their mates and fraudulent COVID loans gets quietly forgotten about.
Not really sure what the point is here.
Corrupt politician lies and deceives then gets caught out but it's probably OK because some other lying deceitful politicians did some other equally reprehensible things, got caught but weren't dealt with as the poster sees fit?
Is that it? 🤔
Well I'm not seeing that. I dont care what the BBC do or don't do. I see corrupt politions being corrupt regardless of their flavour. Degree dunt matter. It's like you're a murderer or not. You can't be a bit of one...
Could just be the tip of the iceberg and he got caught out and lied about it so he's capable of having told a few fibs in the past. Like the CMO for Scotland who got caught driving 80 miles to her second home in Fife when she was telling us to stay indoors 2020.The cringy apologies they have to do on camera , it doesn't seem to have done too much harm to her career £90k instead of £120k
He should walk instead of bubblin on the radio saying he's a family man
£Billions of Tory politician corruption / incompetence = BBC silence or positive spin until shamed into being journalists.
£11,000 of SNP politician corruption / incompetence = BBC journalists like a Jack Russell down a rat hole.
Agreed.
Now, about that camper van that was removed from oooor Nicola's yard?
Humza missed a golden opportunity to draw a line under past SNP corruption. Instead back his lying minister to the hilt. More of the same.
Now, about that camper van that was removed from oooor Nicola’s yard?
Not being a tory, her head rolled right out of office, quite deservedly so. Virtually all politicians are corrupt, self serving and lobbied to the gills by dark money but the media treatment of erring tories when compared to other parties is laughably imbalanced. Just ask Alec Salmond, Ed Miliband, Diane Abbot or Jeremy Corbyn.
As for Humza, he's Nicola's continuity candidate, now tarred with the same brush as the Murrells and will oversee an SNP decline and Labour resurgence in Scotland. Idiot's like Mathieson don't help and it's all good SNP baaad fodder for Auntie Beeb.
Alec Salmond, Ed Miliband, Diane Abbot or Jeremy Corbyn.
now that’s a dinner party you wouldn’t want to go to.
Oh, I wish the SNP would stop ****ing up. Making the voting choice a bit tough - a Labour party I broadly support apart from the independence intransigence elephant in the room and some rolling back on environmental commitments Vs greens who will Def not claim my constituency in a fpp system.