Mr Smith is beginning to wonder if any of our MSPs have actually read the Scottish Parliament's and Scottish Government's rules in relation to the disclosure of MSP interests. The latest of our elected representatives to be caught out is MSP Jim "mind mapper" Mather.
"THE ENTERPRISE minister Jim Mather was accused of breaching the ministerial code of conduct, after it emerged he had failed to notify Scotland's most senior civil servant of his shareholdings when he joined the Scottish Government. Mr Mather had a portfolio of £350,000 of shares – £100,000 in the Glasgow IT company Integrated Environmental Solutions and £250,000 in Optos, a Dunfermline eye-care company – when he took office last May. He still owns them."
Ignorance of the rules is no excuse. It's just a pity that a few more of our MSPs don't seem to have realised that.
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