As I’m an OAP, it’s not very often that I see an amusing online game I got into early trending online, so imagine my glee on seeing the following on X this week: ‘Peter Murrell Meme Turns Follower Counts into Luxury Kitchen Splurges. Freelance journalist Jill Foster started the game by pairing a pound sign with her follower count and a kitchen item, sparking replies from a £35,900 cutlery tray (the proud possession of The Spectator’s own Gareth Roberts) to a £394,000 salad dressing bottle. The humour stems from Murrell’s real court-listed buys, including a £3,232 Jura coffee machine and Jamie Oliver spoons, all funded by SNP donations from 2010 to 2022.’
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To be specific, it had to be the last item in the kitchen that one touched. My own contribution a few hours earlier was a Brexit mug, which, playing by these rules, cost a majestic £48,000, while Jill herself boasted a £42,600 pizza wheel. But these over-priced items were a snip compared to the haul that Murrell amassed, which ran the price-point from a bottle of Loctite Superglue at £3.50 a pop to a luxury motorhome for £124,550. The gaming equipment – costing almost £2,000 – is the classic prized possession of boys and men of all ages for whom life has not proved as exciting as they hoped; one can easily see how a man married to Nicola Sturgeon might want to lose himself in the extremely ‘problematic’ (according to AI) mean streets of Grand Theft Auto. Still, I bet the extreme aggression which takes place in ‘Liberty City’ is as nothing compared to the tongue-lashings he’s had from the Tartan Terror since then.
