Alex Salmond dead

[AyrJambo]

1 hour ago, XB52 said:

Alba have always been right wing/traditional. Look at the dinosaurs that left the SNP to join them, plus the ones continuing to snipe from inside the SNP till they get kicked out in 2016.

We desperately need a new independence party totally free from any Alba or SNP affiliations. Then we really could have an SNP1/SIP2 super majority for independence 

 

There is already the ISP

https://www.isp.scot/

 

And Peter Bell's New Scotland Party

https://new-scotland.scot/

 

All parties should be adopting the Manifesto for Independence but I can't see either the SNP nor Alba going for it

https://new-scotland.scot/manifesto-for-independence/

 

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You don't need to destroy stuff when you've done nothing wrong. This isn't the behaviour of a government with nothing to hide. 

 

Also, why the hell isn't there legislation to prevent mass deletion of documents ? 

[Australis]

39 minutes ago, OTT said:

 

You don't need to destroy stuff when you've done nothing wrong. This isn't the behaviour of a government with nothing to hide. 

 

Also, why the hell isn't there legislation to prevent mass deletion of documents ? 

Is anyone surprised at all.

 

Remember when they told us they were going to govern differently.

 

Salmond was a creep, but I hope the people representing him now, get their day.

 

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Imagine being such a nasty, vindictive and spiteful individual so incapable of empathy that you think it appropriate to continue twisting the knife when a family is grieving. Forcing an 85 year old widow to have to make a statement because you just can't help yourself. 

 

Shame on Nicola Sturgeon. Too busy trying to demonise Salmond to detract from her own failures. 

 

An actual ****ing Ghoul. 

[JamboX2]

On 15/12/2024 at 10:04, OTT said:

 

He has all the tools in his locker to become a very, very successful politician if he chooses to be. Extremely powerful and effective public speaker with the charisma to go along with it. 

 

Considering he cited Salmond as a mentor in his eulogy, I sincerely hoping we're talking when not if. Holyrood is so talent scarce at the moment, that I think DH would give Alba a lot of credibility and maybe be able to help steer the party into less confrontation with the SNP.

 

(I think Alba need to put the kid gloves on when interacting with the SNP ahead of 2026, convincing as many SNP voters as possible to back SNP1 ALBA2 is crucial to delivering a Pro-Independence supermajority and in reality would actually only take seats away from Unionists). Alba's opposition to the SNP within Holyrood would be effective as wouldn't be viewed purely through a constitutional lense (opposition for the sake of it because "boo hiss nationalists"). 

 

He was an SNP MSP between 1999 and 2003. Left to go into the law. 

[BlueRiver]

2 hours ago, OTT said:

 

Imagine being such a nasty, vindictive and spiteful individual so incapable of empathy that you think it appropriate to continue twisting the knife when a family is grieving. Forcing an 85 year old widow to have to make a statement because you just can't help yourself. 

 

Shame on Nicola Sturgeon. Too busy trying to demonise Salmond to detract from her own failures. 

 

An actual ****ing Ghoul. 

 

Who's still been making comments? I've not seen anything in the news but haven't been following closely? Was it Sturgeon? 

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1 minute ago, BlueRiver said:

 

Who's still been making comments? I've not seen anything in the news but haven't been following closely? Was it Sturgeon? 

 

Yeah, accusing him of bullying and she was of course the white knight that rode in to save the day. I believe Swinney has piped up too. 

 

Alex Neil has tweeted about those in Glass Houses. So very obviously Sturgeon has done much the same behind closed doors. 

 

If Salmond was such a big bad scary man, why did both she & Swinney plead with him not to resign in 2014 after the referendum?

[BlueRiver]

1 minute ago, OTT said:

 

Yeah, accusing him of bullying and she was of course the white knight that rode in to save the day. I believe Swinney has piped up too. 

 

Alex Neil has tweeted about those in Glass Houses. So very obviously Sturgeon has done much the same behind closed doors. 

 

If Salmond was such a big bad scary man, why did both she & Swinney plead with him not to resign in 2014 after the referendum?

 

Horrible pair of knobs. 

[John Findlay]

3 hours ago, OTT said:

 

 

If Salmond was such a big bad scary man, why did both she & Swinney plead with him not to resign in 2014 after the referendum?

Crocodile pleading, as in crocodile tears.

[Australis]

Seems to be moves being made, so that in the future SNP supporters will remember her more fondly than Eck.

 

She is doing her best to continue to bad mouth and destroy him.

 

 

Edited January 13 by Australis

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4 minutes ago, Australis said:

Seems to be moves being made, so that in the future SNP supporters will remember her more fondly than Eck.

 

She is doing her best to continue to bad mouth and destroy him.

 

 

 

I mean they did erase him from the website recounting the SNP history  

 

Some guy that scrapped Tuition fees, prescription charge and bridge tolls. Might have also delivered the queensferry crossing on time and under budget, but here's Nicola who delivered baby boxes and erm... ferry scandals?

 

The inescapable fact is that Alex Salmond was the better First Minister by a country mile. Its not even close, kinda close or sort of close. His time as FM was peppered with delivery of progressive policies which benefitted all Scots. Her crowning victory, was Baby Boxes, which were plaguerised from Finland. No bold policies, unless we're counting trying to put male rapists in female prisons?