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Irony you can’t buy

Posted on March 20, 2026 by

Posted without comment.

But actually, here’s a comment from Grok.

So that’s quarter of a million pounds just for running away when things got a bit sticky, on top of the circa £225,000 in wages she’s trousered since resigning as FM despite never turning up for work while she’s been gallivanting around the UK flogging her wretched book (publisher’s advance £300,000), and the fat pension (circa £62,000 a year, index-linked, for life) she’s got coming in a few years’ time, supplemented with nice little bonuses like the £25,000 ITV paid her to commentate on the 2024 election.

Alex Salmond, let us remember, died penniless, still fighting for independence.

So it’s no surprise she couldn’t quite manage to squeeze a tear out of her bone-dry eyes in the chamber yesterday no matter how hard she strained and rubbed.

Good riddance to the richest traitor in Scotland’s history.

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  1. Heather McLean says:

    Said without even a hint of irony. A blow torch couldn’t even mark the brass neck of her ("Tractor" - Ed)ous brass neck. Good riddance indeed!

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  2. lothianlad says:

    Sturgeon is Scotlands shame!She drank from the posioned chalice. Turned by the british state for the temporary illusion of power. In return, the state would conceal her seedy corruption. She was groomed early to become the leader of the SNP and, at the critical time the british state would play their ace card – a sturgeon utterly obsessed by power and blackmailed for her failings. This was the UK deep state right at the heart of the independence power circle. Anyone who watched her rise through the ranks could not fail to notice how easily doors opened for her and how entrenched she had become at the snp power centre. Her handlers did their job.
    Time will expose it all. Her legacy will be one of shame.
    Scotland will reflect on how a parcel of rogues betrayed us again.

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  3. J Robertson says:

    “ No matter the depths of loyalty to your own political tribe, don’t forget to think for yourself”.
    The absolute nerve – when you consider the treatment meted out to anyone (either within the SNP or outwith ) who had the temerity to disagree with this administration ( deliberately not using the word government).

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    • Sven says:

      J Robertson @ 12.47.

      “don’t forget to think for yourself”, I believe she actually intended to say, “don’t forget to think OF yourself.”
      A piece of sound advice she has followed to the letter throughout her self interested political career, I believe.

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  4. lothianlad says:

    Her words conceal a message to abandon independence and that even devolution could be withdrawn.
    An attempt to undo decades of hard by those who strived for freedom.
    Shameless.

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  5. Jacqueline says:

    She’s the worst of the worst.
    I thought I hated thatcher but nicoliar’s filth I will take to my grave. She robbed us of our future. Bad witch.
    RIP Alex. You will not be forgotten in our history. She/it will mostly and absolutely For her treachery.

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  6. Geri says:

    Good riddance to a treacherous cow. Stepping down cause she knows she’d have the walk of shame otherwise.

    Back to being a nobody. The longest serving asshole that achieved the grand total of fck all despite huge public support, numerous mandates in two parliaments & THEIR MONEY. Shame on you.

    Just fuck off already. We don’t want to hear or see yer blinky blink bullshit.

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  7. Cynicus says:

    Is that hairdo non-binary?

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