The fleas on the ticks on the midgets
Wherever you find giants, you also find parasites, bottom-feeders and carrion. When a mighty lion dies in the jungle, tiny creeping crawling maggots and insects and bacteria feast gleefully on its corpse for many days.
Which naturally brings us to the Scottish media.
The above paragraphs of cowardly innuendo and baseless speculative smearing were penned by Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks in the Guardian on Monday. (They’re not from the ironically-headed “Appreciation” that the same two hacks wrote for Sunday’s Observer, in which they audaciously claimed that Salmond’s success was down to Nicola Sturgeon).
They sneakily imply that Salmond was guilty not only of the sexual assaults of which he was cleared in court, but also of an unspecified number of unnamed others, and make assertions of “disturbing evidence about his personal conduct” without specifying what that evidence or conduct might have been.
Naively, we’d imagined that as repulsive as those lines are – though not surprising, as Brooks has always been a keen participant in the whispering campaign from allies of Sturgeon trying to discredit the trial verdict – they were as bad as things would get.
We weren’t even close.
Kenny Farquharson of the Times has always despised Alex Salmond and anyone who defends him. He urged the imprisonment of Craig Murray for supposedly identifying some of Salmond’s false accusers, even though Farquharson himself had committed the exact same crime.
So he didn’t bother waiting for the corpse to grow cold before he got his hatchet out to hack it to pieces.
Farquharson didn’t bother to conceal his crushing disappointment that Salmond was acquitted on every charge, although nobody actually paying attention to proceedings at the trial could have been surprised.
Not a single corroborating witness to any of the 13 alleged assaults was produced – despite several of them supposedly happening at well-attended public events – nor was even a solitary piece of material evidence led. So only one verdict was credibly possible and the jury did their duty and delivered it. No reasonable observer would have been shocked, but so desperate were the Scottish press to see Salmond convicted that they couldn’t accept it.
Farquharson tries to find sinister meaning in the single “not proven” verdict, although in Scots law Not Proven is an identical verdict of acquittal to Not Guilty and the likely reason for the difference is that Salmond had admitted that SOMETHING happened between himself and that woman – albeit something trivial and consensual – whereas all the other accusations were entirely fictional.
(Farquharson also cynically repeats a widespread lie about the case. Salmond, as the media correctly recorded at the time, admitted to a “sleeping” cuddle with Woman F, not a “sleepy” one. The distinction isn’t just semantic but is actually quite a significant one – if you’re sleepy you’re awake and conscious of what you’re doing, which is not the case if you’re asleep.)
But then Farquharson really unleashes the venom.
In wretched weasel words, Farquharson opines that Salmond was really guilty, and that the jury got it SO wrong that the entire concept of jury trials for rape must be discarded. (Note that he only says the TRIAL was legitimate, not the VERDICT.)
He then lambasts Salmond for daring to seek “revenge” – others might say justice – on the conspirators who’d concocted a string of false allegations which would have put him in prison for the rest of his life, and which did cost him hundreds of thousands of pounds in unrecoverable defence costs, muddied his reputation and caused years of untold stress which we now know almost certainly hastened his untimely death.
One imagines that if the same dreadful thing happened to Kenny Farquharson, he would simply shrug it off magnanimously and get on with his life.
(Salmond in fact never attacked his accusers. He merely sought recognition and recompense through the proper legal channels for the grotesquely flawed processes which had brought him to court.)
The Times, wisely, disabled comments on the piece and swiftly hid it from view on both their Scotland and Comment pages. But Farquharson wasn’t done, and on Tuesday he launched another diatribe.
(Comments were enabled on this one, and Farquharson ironically appeared to say that he was “Here for your judicious comments, as always”.)
Liars and false accusers deserve to be insulted, at a very minimum. Indeed, what they actually deserve is to go to prison for conspiracy and perjury. But Farquharson was indignant with fury.
He opens with an attack on the findings of Lord Pentland.
But the evidence that the Scottish Government’s procedures were specifically and selectively targeted on Salmond is exhaustive, documented and laughably obvious. To this day, the rules implemented in February 2018 have never been deployed against anyone else in the six and a half years that they’ve been in place, despite Holyrood supposedly being absolutely riddled with constant sexual harassment by MSPs.
Next up, Farquharson constructs a straw man.
But absolutely nobody, not one soul on the planet, has EVER suggested that “Sturgeon should have helped [Salmond] avoid disciplinary scrutiny and evade a police investigation”, nor that the SNP should have “refused to co-operate with a criminal investigation”. Of course they shouldn’t have.
It’s simply a complete fabrication invented by Farquharson as a distraction from what actually happened, which was that the SNP instigated a criminal investigation, against the wishes of the supposed victims, to try to draw attention away from Lord Pentland’s merciless evisceration of their initial attempted stitch-up.
(Readers may ponder that perhaps the reason the complainers didn’t want to go to the police was because that would change their status from mere false accusers in a non-criminal process to potential perjurers facing possible imprisonment. Such views would of course be only speculative.)
Farquharson then moves to his final flourish: all conspiracy theories are nonsense.
It’s almost 12 years since this site noted that the entire history of humankind is a history of conspiracies, all of them rubbished as lunatic tinfoil-hat paranoia right up to the point where they’re confirmed as being completely true.
But there’s nothing at all far-fetched about the conspiracy against Salmond. It is in fact almost tediously mundane and predictable.
A woman with self-confessed impostor syndrome and a track record of undermining anyone she saw as a potential threat to her – to the extent that there was no obvious successor when she suddenly resigned as party leader and her replacements have been an imbecile and a caretaker – feared the return to frontline politics of the greatest politician in Scottish history (and not completely irrationally, either: this was, after all, a man who’d retired and made comebacks before).
So she set out to quash the possibility with what would have been ultimately a fairly harmless disciplinary stitch-up. Had it succeeded Salmond would have been shamed and nullified as a political threat, but not imprisoned. He’d have been bumped into a quiet retirement, and might even have ruefully admired her Machiavellian cunning.
But so ham-fistedly did she and her incompetent allies devise the trap that it backfired catastrophically, and in a mounting panic she arranged for her senior lieutenants – the only people who had the requisite information to do so – to escalate it to a police matter and leak it to the press.
(We suppose that Jason Allardyce and John Boothman of the Times must be among the mad conspiracy theorists.)
The police and judicial system, contrary to Farquharson’s hysterical misdirection, did not require to be party to the conspiracy. They merely did their jobs – alleged crimes were reported, they investigated as they’re obliged to do, they were presented with evidence (false testimonies resulting from illegal collusion, which they had no way of knowing at that stage), and the processes of the law duly unfolded, up to and including a jury rejecting the accusations and clearing the defendant.
But Farquharson still isn’t done ramping up the rhetoric.
Farquharson happening to know some of the complainers personally manifestly does not intrinsically attest to their honesty, and nor does the fact that many women across the world HAVE been the victims of sexual assault, and nor does the genitalia they happen to possess. Women sometimes lie and men sometimes tell the truth.
But it is in no way “bravery” to collude in a conspiracy to imprison an innocent man while hiding behind the protection of anonymity, and to continue to agitate against him, through Scottish Government-funded front organisations, even after he’s been cleared. No ill consequences whatsoever have befallen any of the accusers, some of whom occupy positions of considerable wealth, status, influence and power.
Nor is it “outrageous” for an innocent man wrongly accused (or his family and friends after his death) to seek truth and justice. There is compelling prima facie evidence that at least some of the witnesses against Salmond committed perjury, and the facts of the matter should not be swept under the carpet just because the thought offends some bitter and tired old newspaper columnist jealous of an “alpha male”.
Some not-guilty verdicts can arise from sincere but conflicting interpretations of events which all parties agree occurred. But others cannot be so easily explained away, such as (for example) an accusation of attempted rape made by someone who was not even present in the building where the supposed attack took place at the time.
So by Kenny Farquharson’s reading, we must assume that the Crown Office, who are conducting an ongoing investigation into perjury with regard to the Salmond trial, are also part of the lunatic conspiracy theory, and engaged in a heinous and scandalous “insult” against the complainers.
And that Police Scotland must be part of the conspiracy-theory crowd too, given that they’re currently investigating a senior civil servant for wilfully making false statements under oath to the inquiry into why the Scottish Government’s harassment procedures failed so disastrously.
(A matter already waved haughtily away by Farquharson as “nonsense”. Perhaps the police should simply have consulted him first and saved a lot of time and trouble.)
Kenny Farquharson, in short, is not just engaging in the grotesque smearing of a dead man, but also attempting to interfere in the course of justice. He didn’t get his wish for Alex Salmond’s comeuppance and now frantically wants to shout down any attempts to establish whether Salmond was in fact the victim of a grievous injustice, because he didn’t like him, and because Salmond’s death clearly isn’t enough for him.
He blames Salmond’s “own misdeeds” for his downfall, asserting with no grounds that they were characterised by a “weakness” for “young female subordinates”.
But Salmond was found guilty of not one single “misdeed” against any such person. He was acquitted of every criminal charge, and admitted only to two entirely consensual brief incidents or encounters with other women – a matter which is the sole and exclusive preserve of Alex Salmond and his wife Moira, of whose relationship we know nothing, and certainly none of the business of some grubby low-rent columnist.
And yet despite all the above, Farquharson remarkably still isn’t the most repellent piece of disgusting, cowardly slime to be found mining cash from defaming Salmond’s memory from the safe cover of his death, because in law you cannot defame a corpse.
(That law had been reconsidered in Scotland under a consultation as recently as 2011, ironically when Salmond was First Minister, but in the end no changes were made.)
Nor was it Alan Cochrane in the Telegraph, a man possessed of such saintly decorum and decency that he once drunkenly headbutted an SNP MSP into unconsciousness at a Parliamentary reception.
Cochrane’s nasty little column merely reprised the lies in Farquharson’s, Carrell’s and Brooks’ pieces (including the sly “sleepy cuddle” misrepresentation), with the bonus of another oft-repeated falsehood – that Salmond’s defence counsel had called him a “sex pest” – and the allegation, denied even by Nicola Sturgeon, that female staff were not allowed to work alone with the then-First Minister.
Once again, Cochrane neglects to identify which women he feels are in need of a “reckoning” – for the accusers surely had their reckoning in the High Court already – or which “unhappy memories” they would be addressing. These appear to be entirely imaginary victims of unspecified and unevidenced wrongdoings which exist only in the mind of Alan Cochrane.
Nor are we referring to Carlos Alba, a “PR consultant at Carlos Alba Media”, who the Herald paid to muse about Salmond’s “darker side”, presumably on the basis of the irony of his name, because it certainly wasn’t for his piercing insight.
Alba recounts a long series of dull petty personal grudges from his time as a local newspaper hack before embarking on a lengthy tirade about the “gall” of Salmond being pleased about being cleared of all the false charges against him and yet again misrepresenting the words of Salmond’s lawyer Gordon Jackson.
What Jackson actually said was that Salmond “could have been a better man” – something which is surely true of all men, since none are perfect – NOT that he was “not a good man”, even though Alba puts those false words in quote marks.
Absurdly, Alba also suggests that the jury “didn’t believe that what Salmond was accused of amounted to criminality”. Yet for that to be true, the jury would have had to have thought that they’d been dragged into a courtroom to adjudicate on a criminal trial over things that weren’t crimes, a notion of such obviously fatuous stupidity that we shall waste no more time on it.
Nor are we even talking about the foul Marie Le Conte (a rarely-employed freelance hack whose French surname we can only guess at the translation of), who said first on Twitter and then in The New European – modestly billed as “the truth” – that the fact that he was found not guilty didn’t mean he wasn’t guilty, and that “the truth will come out now he is gone”, which presumably meant “I can tell lies about him for money now he’s gone and there’s nothing he can do about it”.
But we still haven’t reached the bottom of the barrel. For that, we must reluctantly visit the stinking sewer that is the notoriously anti-semitic far-left website Novara Media.
Because this was their take on the death of Alex Salmond.
Alert Wings readers will immediately have clocked the author of Novara’s “obituary” as Adam Ramsay, a malodorous proven liar whose idea of a good and admirable human being is the former Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre CEO Mridul Wadhwa.
And Ramsay doesn’t hang about.
Almost every word in the first two paragraphs of the piece is a lie, a smear, or both. Ramsay openly and directly says that Salmond committed numerous sexual assaults, a repulsive slur on not only Salmond but also the good men and women of the jury who – unlike Ramsay – heard all the evidence and decided that Salmond was innocent on every charge.
That was a smear too far even for Kenny Farquharson, but Ramsay – a wealthy and privileged private-school faux-revolutionary and a snivelling excuse for a man who threatened this site with a defamation suit when we shredded his lies about Wadhwa earlier this year but instantly ran away when we dared him to take us to court – knows that Novara’s audience is hungry for clickbaity outrage and he’s more than happy to spoonfeed them as much of it as they want.
He might be terrified to launch a defamation suit, but knowing that he himself is safely able to defame the dead he repeatedly reasserts all the disproven lies about Salmond, and squeezes in the now-obligatory allegation of transphobia for good measure.
There were no “victims” of “sexual predation” by Alex Salmond. It is doubtful whether any man in Scottish – and perhaps world – history has ever been subjected to a more intensive investigation and prosecution of alleged sexual misdeeds than he.
Police Scotland interviewed literally hundreds of people who had made no complaints against him whatsoever, deploying vast amounts of manpower and resources in a huge fishing expedition to try to assemble a dossier that would sufficiently inflate the charge sheet against him via the extremely dubious Moorov Doctrine.
(Most victims of actual rape do not benefit from even a fraction of such efforts.)
And at the end of that months-long process, they’d come up with… that he might have jokingly “pinged” someone’s curly hair in a lift, in front of other people, and opened a bottle of mineral water in a car.
And even on such absurdities, Salmond was cleared.
But all of these things are mere facts, and facts are the most trivial of impediments to tiny loathsome reptiles like Kenny Farquharson, Alan Cochrane and Adam Ramsay. Protected by multiple layers of privilege and impunity, they spew their rancid, jealous, impotent invective against a man whose achievements dwarf theirs a thousand times over, knowing that finally he can’t answer back.
None of them, to be frank, are fit to lick dogpiss from a photocopy of a picture of Alex Salmond’s shadow, and none of them should ever again be tolerated in the company of any decent human being. Scotland is shamed and disgraced and belittled by their very presence, and in the absence of Salmond’s the injury is all the more acute.
Scotland will mourn for Alex Salmond, and his name will be written in its history for centuries. Pygmies like Farquharson, Cochrane and Ramsay will be forgotten before the publications they write for are lining cat-litter trays and budgie cages at the end of the day in the homes of the microscopic numbers of people who still buy or read them.
And like poor wretched Ephialtes of Trachis, we hope they live an eternity to see it.
Superb, rev. What we needed – you put on the hazmat suit and swim through the shite so we don’t have to.
– I didn’t read all of these pricks – I knew what it would be like, but I caught ramsays nasty piece and small’s pathetic “no more heroes”.
Correct Confused, well said. God love you Stu for having o trawl through that utter bilge.
These bottom of the barrel scum, laughingly called “reporters” bring a bad name to decent ones. It must be sad to live such a life just looking to disbarage others.
There’s a special place in hell for such swamp crawling
lowlifes.
Absolutely sickening that vermin posing as journalists could get away with such unfounded, unproven slanderous remarks.
Could these remarks be taken to court?
No man in this country has been better cleared of any sexual criminality than Alex Salmond. Ask the 3 Judges and majority female jury who acquired him on all accounts.
These people should be behind bars for printing stories beneath their normal gutter journalism.
Unfortunately you cannot libel the dead. Which is why they all knew they were perfectly safe in trotting out that cack knowing he cannot come after them.
Can Moira and his family though?
Yes they can and must he is telling us from beyond that his enemies must be brought to justice and pay for trying to kill him and his dream for Freedom that will not be stopped by lie after lie. We can and must succeed.
Cowards all of them !
Bunch of nasty twerps
What a bunch of absolute shits, one of whom I had happily blotted from memory , both he and his wife were particularly irksome and insulting .prior to the referendum.
This leaves me wishing even more fervently than before that the dead tree press falls on really , really hard times.Perhaps the SNP will be so skint that it won’t be able to bung them OUR money any more.
Remember the BBC are bunging money at the yellow press too !
Yes, pure magnificence Rev, my hope is flying with your wings.
Your wings will bring everybody home!
Everywhere you look, the ms media are still trashing him. Connor twatchit etc etc. not journalists, establishment propagandists. The sewer that is modern journalism’
TBH there are only one or two journalists who have scribed responsibly and in a dignified way as befits the death of Alex Salmond. Most have (as you show here) covered themselves in sh!te which their perverted and fertile imaginations produce. Karma gets them all in the end, I hope sooner rather than later. #Justice4Salmond
I noticed that Richard Tice of Reform UK supported David Davies in his eulogy for Salmond in Parliament. Is it possible for friends and family of Mr Salmond to work with these 2 MPs to continue the campaign to seek justice for him? (Tice, who has played such a sterling role in building Reform, spoke movingly of the advice he received from Mr Salmond).
If they were so sure they were right, they could of written they’re fluff pieces whilst the Great man was alive. The cowards waited until he died because they know they wouldn’t be asked to prove anything they wrote. Their opinion pieces are no more than the village weirdos poison pen letters.
Ah Cochrane, the clown that boosted days after the vote on the 18th of September 2014, that he lied through his teeth to save the union, is something you have to lie so much about to protect, you have to ask yourself is it really that good?
All of them clowns that wouldn’t say any of it away from the safety of their laptops.
Some of the comments by Farquharson, Brooks and Ramsay must surely be actionable by Salmond’s immediate family.
Och Aye,I’ll put down my pencil then, very nicely done these superannuated fuds needed telling. ?
Wow they’re all crawling out of the sewer to slander a dead man,cowards one and all!!!
Justice for Alex Salmond ,get every last one of them!!!
Snivelling cowards. Not one of them would have dared had Alex been alive.
Unbelievably sick. Thanks Wings. I’ve no other words. Poor Moira. Alex was and will remain the greatest man.
Wonderful article!
Great work Stu.
Let’s hope enough of these liars say more which gives the key to unearthing the whole truth so Sturgeon and her cabal can be convicted after a public trial.
That’s quite some bile from Farquharson, but why bother? Who is he trying to impress?
Excellent skewering of the tawdry sad wee jobbies of Scotland. Sitting at home, furiously writing poison about a great man, one of Scotland’s finest, they barely knew. All for a wee bit cash for their lies and smears.
It is odd that so many of these creeps who think of themselves as ‘journalists’ feel better qualified in Scots law, than a Scottish law lord. Mibbes they actually have studied and practiced law for decades, mibbes they are secretly high court law lords, and haven’t told us?? I doubt it, many just think they are sleekit, lying scum.
Sad wee people, filling their lives with hate, and venom, just to get a few coins from foreign ‘media’ publisher, and keep their ‘handlers’ in London happy.
You are right Rev, they are maggots. Alex Salmond is not even buried yet.
Lying maggots shite – that what these people are, we know what to expect, from media whores like them.
Salmond was a giant, a national hero who almost delivered our freedom from this illegal union – and they hated him for it.
These small insignificant people, couldn’t lace Salmond’s boots and they knew it – and that’s why even in death they must attempt to defile Alex reputation – however many folk knew Salmond – was trying to free Scotland and Scots from the shackles of Westminster.
A task we must finish in his honour.
Thank you very much for saying what needed to be said.
This article was magnificient, timely and well considered.
Shitebags and charlatans. Such are the mainstream media in Scotland. Or, to use a more appropriate term, the Yoon Gutter Press.
All these tossers know that you can’t defame the dead so they’re simply lining up to gaslight anyone and everyone who held a modicum of respect for Salmond.
Fuck’em all I say.
I’ll not pay their wages.
Another brilliantly forensic article reminding us of just how sick these people are. I want to know what motivates them to behave this way and i keep coming to the conclusion that they hate Scotland and Scottishness. AS in his words and deeds demonstated that we could be better than our big neighbour. He delivered a competent government that produced significant improvement in every social indicator. They hated that. They want us to remain second class and in awe of London. He was also much smarter than them and usually argued for the moral position, something that Farquharson and the others are incapable of. He was also down to earth in world that reeks of snobbery, maybe that was his biggest crime in their eyes, at least.
By any measure, Scots – and Welsh – devolution has been an unmitigated disaster… for Scotland, for Wales, for the United Kingdom as a whole. Both were better off under Westminster with full proportional representation of MPs (Northern Ireland is a whole other matter)… and I would STILL say and believe that if I was either Scottish or Welsh!
I didn’t support Alex Salmond’s wish to break up the Union – and quite frankly, many of the regular commenters on here are complete loons – but AS was undoubtedly, alongside Nigel Farage, the most able, charismatic, and consequential politician of his day… and what was done to him by his former Scottish Nasty Party colleagues was an absolute disgrace.
As a Unionist, I say… rest in peace, Mr Salmond, and I hope you receive full posthumous justice.
Sadly my English hard copy of the Times has not featured the articles by Farquerson, Cochrane et al so I am unable to line my cat’s litter tray with their ‘bon mots’.
This Scottish Tory & Unionist (living in England) was disgusted by their words about Salmond. He was as they say ‘a man of parts’. A flawed man of course but a great man none the less, unlike the snivelling, pathetic professional student union politicians that have run the party after he resigned.He was respected by opponents accross the political spectrum. And he knew what a woman was.
It was hardly Weinstein/Epstein/Savile/Fayed stuff. Flirtatious behaviour but no one’s career or safety was threatened if they rebuffed him. Flicking a curl FGI. As for the sleepy cuddle, I am sure many colleagues away on business have got tipsy & ended up snoozing next to each other on a hotel bed with nothing sexual happening.
Interestingly if NS et all were really concerned about ‘inappropriate behaviour’ whilst Salmond was leader why did they wait to 2017 before raising the issue? If you take their story at face value then they were covering up for political reasons and were therefore complicit.
And Biden is handsy with teenage girls and young women – hair, shoulders, waist etc.
That genocidal, child-torturing maniac has SFA to do with Scots and Scotland. Your disgusting attempt at a smear is transparent and shows the unbelievable baseness of your Scotophobe rhetoric, you nasty little london shite!
I despise those who persist in coming out with this shite about ‘flawed behaviour’, ‘flawed man’ and the rest of that bollox! Alex was NO MORE FLAWED than anyone else in Scotland, uk and the world. Not one bit! And he had more honour and integrity in his little finger than these commenters have in their entire, miserable, flawed and imperfect bodies! With not one redeeming factor among them!
Val McDermid on BBC R4 Today on Monday was something else- she could barely wait to launch into a tirade of lies.
It was also revealing- clearly sent out by Nicola & Liz, but also planned on Sunday & BBC likely proactively contacted.
Could they sink any lower?
Bottom of the barrel indeed.
“14/10/24 – Mishal Husain and Nick Robinson”
link to bbc.co.uk
Not quite the “tirade of lies” expected.
Salmond section (6 mins) begins: 2:24:02
Val McDermid from ~2:24:30
Sounds like Val has not made the effort to find out what anyone who wanted to know (like of all us lot here) could easily have found by looking beyond the State / Corporatist media and the SNP party line.
Which is what most non-political people do- just listen to what the mass media tells them and the talking heads on the TV and Radio.
She actually managed to cram in quite a range of useful sound bytes:
“The SNP cannot be relied upon to do it alone”
Independnce support is still around 50%
Democratic Defecit in Scotland
thatcher imposing the poll tax
“a neo-colonial envoy in the shape of Sue Grey”
“The Independence idea needs to be separated from the SNP? Yes.”
Some good stuff there actually.
Is that you Val?!
Despicable what they’re doing. Alex Salmond hasn’t even been buried yet but these cretinous excuses posing as ‘journalists’ are profiting handsomely to write blatant lies over things that have already been disproved in a court of law.
Fcking dregs. Let’s hope karma blows this shit right back at them at some stage.
This will have a smattering of the security services behind it too with instructions to release the attack dogs to print hit pieces hoping it sticks. They cant have the Scots mourn Salmond as a hero, or reignite the independence movement, so will attack his character knowing there is nothing can be done about it now.
I expect this to get a lot worse before, during & after he is laid to rest. They’re the scum of the earth & I hope their forty pieces of silver fcking choke them & it’s their last.
It’s not hard to understand. A few years after their deaths they will all be anonymous. Alex will however remain a historic figure forever.
It must be galling for them to realise that. Their own self importance makes them baulk at that truth
Rev Stu’s anger burns through every line like the white-hot flame of an acetylene torch.
But the revenge to be taken on the liars, perjurers and the creeping, post-mortem mud slingers has to be dished up ice cold.
The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine. Let all the liars and perjurers fear the relentless grinding of justice as it closes in on them. Let the posthumous mud slingers choke on their words on the day the truth is exposed to the entire world.
However long it takes, justice must be done and must be seen to be done.
Not just for Alex Salmond. For Scotland.
Uptick from me for a considered post.
I’m sure that these scandalmongers will all be getting a nice present from the Integrity Initiative this Christmas.
The similarity of their articles really would make you think that they’re written from the same notes.
Well done on protecting the narrative, boys.
Consider the political and civic establishment reaction to real victims of rape seeking support from rape crisis centres in Scotland – labelled as bigots, told to reframe their trauma, shunned because they asked for a female support officer and women only spaces.
Then we have the political, civil service and media establishment who collectively set out to ruin a leading politician by actively procuring false accusations of sexual assault from alleged victims who are then given full anonymity by the courts.
This is our Scotland.
Remember the hatchet job by the Herald?
Even worse than the a***holes quoted above, and from a surprising source…
Even WGD can be right some of the time:
Since writing this piece I’ve learned about the Herald’s Big Read about the forthcoming trial. It’s a shockingly irresponsible piece which illustrates an article about Alex Salmond’s trial with photographs of the Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann, Fred and Rose West, Peter Sutcliffe, the killers of James Bulger, Myra Hyndley and Ian Brady, Dennis Nilsen, and Charles Manson, while telling us that “of course” they’re not drawing any connections between these vile creatures and the former First Minister. The piece is available in the paper’s print edition but doesn’t seem to be in the online edition (which is why I didn’t see it earlier).
link to x.com
I honestly doubt that any newspaper could sink any lower. Utterly sickening and disgusting.
Thank you, Rev, for once again setting out the truth for all to see. The people you are writing about are the lowest of the low – how I wish that they would suffer a fraction of the mental torture that innocent, decent people in Scotland have had to suffer.
A fine post Stu, consistent with all of the information previously shared.
It’s truly horrible to see lies and smears perpetuated by national press, broadcasters and Sturgeon supporters.
As someone who didn’t particularly agree with Salmond politically, their approach, supposedly to bury the man’s reputation, has the opposite effect.
People can see the corruption, the cover ups, the false allegations and the perversions of justice exactly for what they are.
Far from attracting support for their views, they are repulsive opportunists. People who could not wait to continue their vendettas, safe from repercussions from the deceased.
It doesn’t need a conspiracy theory to question the integrity, professionalism, or human decency of these people and the organisations they are affiliated to.
They are a disgrace to our country, regardless of the politics one holds.
In case none of you have realised yet, these abhorrent narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths are baiting for a heavy handed, violent physical reaction to their gaslighting filth, to play the victim afterwards.
There are two ways of dealing with such a disgusting behaviour: ostentatiously ignore, dismiss, belittle and diminish, or return such an effective hit that nothing is left. Full obliteration.
A retort, tit-for-tat response will only lead to further escalation, because that’s the game of these mentally insane cretins: poke, poke, poke, stab, stab, stab, until someone blows a gasket.
Don’t.
Make your choice. And stick with it.
This is a keeper.
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Brilliant!
Excellent take. As you say a keeper.
Saved…
I don’t have a Times subscription but I’d like to hope that someone who does rips Farq a new one in the article that has the comments open.
Someone should point out the these journalists (sic) that “believe women” meant that claims should be investigated without fear or favour, rather than assumed to be false, not that every single thing any woman has ever said must be believed, even if there is evidence to the contrary.
Absolutely, PP. No case should go ahead without a sufficiency of evidence, and the evidence in the Salmond trial was pretty sketchy, at best. What is to be gained for women if innocent men go to jail for something they haven’t done? It is totally counter productive.
I find myself looking forward with great anticipation to the day that the dirt (for there will be plenty) on these “journalists” comes to light. Let’s see how they deal with the spotlight.
Hackers !
Fuck the Grauniad bought n paid for hacks,their circulation figures are circling the drain.Been a spook shitrag for decades same as them all more or less.
Yousaf is indeed “an imbecile” – this provoked the first good laugh that I’ve had since the news on Saturday.
I don’t know what to say other than what a brilliant post, and with a devastating last paragraph. I couldn’t agree more wholeheartedly.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of “journalists” or “commentators” passing themselves off as fourth estate today who:
(a) appear to have lost ability to research simple facts (b) opine about the moral standing of others whilst they malign a recently deceased just as that person’s loved ones struggle to comprehend the immediacy of their loss.
The former skill would better instruct them as to why Scotland both has the acquittal verdicts it does and what each actually means (helping their copy no-end) and the latter would give rise to a level of introspection where they might discover the most basic level of humanity.
Thank you Stuart Campbell for this yet further exemplary defence of a valiant champion of Scotland despicably targeted by State and Media since even before 2014. Obair mhòr. Taing mhòr. I am hoping contingencies were in place for relevant disclosures post mortem. Salmond unchained…
If ever a reason was needed to avoid the rabid spittle flecked screeching and scrawlings of these utter PRESSTITUTES the very fact that they support the bile encrusted poisoned dwarf in her proven lies indicates they are lower than RATS PISS
OH for someone with morality and integrity to take each of these arseholes to the cleaners financially and legally for their despicable misrepresentation of the truth
The final two paragraphs are exactly how I feel.
Alex Salmond’s contributions to Scotland have assured his place in history. Nothing any of these whimpering nothings could say or do, combined, could amount to a percentage of a fraction of what he did for us.
And the thing is, this will be proven thusly much sooner than I think any of them will realise. The hounding of Alex Salmond was so full of failure & idiocy that it is simply infeasible for it to be swept under the rug. They are telling on themselves, and setting themselves up for the sort of shame that would mortify honest humans.
Someone once said that everyone dies twice, first when you stop breathing and the second the last time someone mentions your name.
On that basis, Salmond is going to be around for a very long time.
For as long as someone calls themselves a Scot, I’m certain that Alex Salmond’s namr will be alongside Bruce, Burns, Scott, & Wallace, forever inseparable from the nation they loved.
So if they are going to smear the man knowing he cannot defend himself against their slanders then the whole truth should be leaked.
Every single bit of hidden redacted evidence should be exposed. Everything.
That is the best response to the paedo press, the nonce news.
Look at the state of them… fat incel weirdos or posh kid ponces. I’ve shit better.
Total scum.
Quite a piece Stu. Well done. Truth will out.
Best policy is to ignore them all. That’s what I do and I’m sure I’m not alone. My local convenience store gets two copies of The Guardian delivered every morning and both are returned unsold to the wholesaler the following morning. Of more interest to me is who’s paying the piper. I suspect it falls on the taxpayer to pay the wages of these propagandists.
The Guardian operates at a loss of around forty million pounds per annum and is kept afloat via cash injection from Bill Gates, George Soros and Google amongst others.
Aaand this is why I pay my paltry some each month
Stunning article Rev. Must have been exhausting to write, but hopefully cathartic too.
Our rage is natural but, as you point out, they are absolute pond life.
I loved the photocopy of a shadow description.
Thank you for that. The British Establishment are desperate to ensure no-one remembers Alex’s achievements. That’s the reason for this.
What they fail to take stock of, is their current behaviour is not sitting well with folk… from across the spectrum. And it’s causing them to discuss Alex… and his achievements.
The Big Man would have seen that. Might even have raised a smile at their stupid.
Here’s tae the Harp oh the North, built on time and under budget, a bridge that kept most of Scotland’s industry occupied for 10 years, when Austerity first did its rounds.
Here’s tae, railways renewed and by-passes finally built, tae Free Scripts, and Education for all, but most of all, for giving us all, after over 300 years, a chance, the first chance, to get a say, on whether we wanted to be in this wretched Union.
The more I read that Novara article, the more angry I become. I always expected Farquharson to drool at the thought of attacking Salmond once he was dead, but that Ramsay piece is vile.
And yes, Novara is dripping with antisemitic, classist, so-called ‘communists’ who’ve never done anything positive in their lives. I’d also forgotten how several of their contributors celebrated the murders of innocent young people at a rave last year. They’re not exactly helping the image of the Corbynite left as one where antisemitism and elitism is rife.
Also, the far left have a shockingly bad reputation when it comes to women. The SWP have had multiple incidents of rape and assaults, & Novara are perfectly happy supporting rapists being put in women’s prisons. I stopped hanging around those circles years ago but I still know people involved & even they say these organisations are full of predators.
The clear intention of these people isn’t just to smear Salmond now he’s dead but to scare off anyone who might threaten the new Scottish establishment. It’s the Lyndon B Johnson method of political attack but on a dead man.
link to washingtonmonthly.com
Yes, John C, the hard left is the worst of the lot. Their misogyny knows no bounds. Marx himself was a misogynist of the highest degree who wrote of class disadvantages, but was incapable of seeing that his own wife was a drudge in his service. Self-awareness is not a big thing with the hard left Anyone who challenges them on anything is accused of being right-wing.
It has become all but impossible to say that the ‘trans’ lobby is the vehicle for hard left, post structuralism which, if enacted, would take us back to Year Zero. The virtue-signallers are probably the most brain-dead people who have walked the Earth, which they would probably claim is flat, all the time feeling virtuous and self-righteous because they believe that they are doing good by pretending to believe that men can be women on their own say-so.
Thanks for this Mr Wings. I was feeling down today.
Cochrane’s remarks are the most ludicrous because he virtually stalked Mr Salmond for years between 2007 and 2014 and he hadn’t got one word to say about predatory behaviour in a book that catalogued move after move that was made by the FM. .
I wonder what Farquharson’s true relationship is with the women he knows from the trial?
The women are all having coffee and peeling potatoes and arranging visits while the man they destroyed is lying in a coffin.
NOT ONE of those women is a victim
The innocent man isn’t afraid of the truth. Its the guilty who’s are afraid of the innocent man.
The people who scorn Mr Salmond are jealous but they’ll never know the true love and respect the Scots have for the man who became the father of Scotland.
Its all about tarnishing the man in order to tarnishing what the man achieved. He and only he, no one else got us a referendum and no one will again, FACT. For me Mr Salmond was a great man who people will talk about ten and twenty years from now and what he achieved, that’s whats important to me and that what I’ll remember.
I know Salmond said his deepest regret was resigning, for me it was not allowing only people born In Scotland to vote in the referendum. They say the pen is mightier that sword, well I would argue with that in Mr Salmond case. Here is a man who singly awoke the Scots to nationalism and to the very idea that we would one day hold in our hands a Scottish passport and be Scottish once again.
Its appalling that the only way to make money is to make a innocent man guilty again knowing he isn’t able to defend himself.
Personally, I find that trying so ardently to ping dirt on a dead man that cannot defend himself is the lowest of the low. But, whilst these individuals might be truly worthless opportunistic cowards, one cannot help but wonder what their real motive may be. And the more they resource to hyperbole, the bigger that curiosity grows.
What do they stand to win by destroying the reputation of a dead man?
Other than money and risking losing their readership, I cannot see what else they stand to get from this. However, there are too many of them operating at once to consider this an isolated event, therefore, one starts to wonder if this move could be part of an organised strategic campaign to completely destroy Mr Salmond’s reputation before HR2026.
Who could have orchestrated such strategy?
To answer that question, we will need to find out first what the real motives behind destroying Mr Salmond’s reputation can possibly be. Three obvious ones spring to mind:
Who could have those motives? Who could still see a dead man as a big threat?
a. The conspirators, perjurers and those supporting them.
b. a British establishment desperate to stop Scotland’s independence.
Worthless opportunistic cowards do not run to protect random perjurers and conspirators, unless they are so linked to them that both stand to sink if one goes. Or unless those perjurers are connected to something much bigger the opportunists can feed from.
So, what is the likelihood that groups a. and b. are interlinked? If so, how are they interlinked? What/Who is the connecting link?
How many members of the secret service were involved in the conspiracy against Mr Salmond?
How many members of the secret service or useful idiots of the secret service are currently involved in this ongoing and deliberate discrediting campaign against a deceased man?
Well, we know this:
“The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies to neutralise its adversarial reporting of the ‘security state’, according to newly released documents and evidence from former and current Guardian journalists”
Quoted from Kennard & Curtis, published in Declassified UK on 10 September 2019.
Isn’t the Guardian where two of those opportunists wrote their pieces?
Mr Craig Murray recently published this in his blog:
“He was also focused on Liz Lloyd whom he believed to be a MI5 agent. He said that Lloyd had no connection to Scottish Independence and had initially been placed inside the SNP as an intern to an MP (or MSP, I forget) by a British Government graduate training scheme”
quoted from his Article “Alex Salmond. Always My Hero”, published on 13 October 2024.
Well, wasn’t Liz Lloyd one of the people giving evidence during the Parliamentary Inquiry? Didn’t one of the other civil servants mentioned in an email that her interference was “very bad”? Wasn’t she mentioned by David Davies under parliamentary privilege as being linked to the leak to the newspaper? Wasn’t she also in the jolly boys and girls picture?
Wasn’t there another civil servant who could not be interviewed on camera and instead just answered a few questions over the phone, so we cannot know if somebody was with her in the room giving her the answers? Lloyd was not interviewed either. She simply submitted an statement. Why?
If Mr Salmond’s suspicions were correct and this individual is Mi5, we already got someone right in the middle of it. But there might be more.
Mr Murray also wrote this on Twitter:
“I can confirm that Harvie spent some time in FCO Legal Advisers on secondment from MI5. His official title in Scotland is “Crown Agent”. Oversaw prosecutions of Salmond, Hirst, Llewellyn, Singh, myself, etc, etc.”
published on Twitter on 14 September 2022
Oh Dear, that would be also an MI5 stuck right in the Crown Office.
The attack on Mr Salmond was the result of a collusion between the UK civil Service, the Crown Office, the Police and the SNP. So far, we have a suspected MI5 right in the middle of the civil service and another in the Crown Office involved. What are the odds that there are also some in the SNP and also the Police? Could the whole thing have been concocted and directed by the secret service but executed by their useful idiots, a few ambitious airheads and foolish narcissists?
The Scotsman told us this already in 2005:
“Since the agency (MI5)’s officers have no power to arrest or charge suspects, they necessarily work closely with the police, especially Special Branch”
Right, didn’t the Crown Agent Harvie colluded with the civil service and instigated the police investigation against Mr Salmond?
The Scotsman told us this already in 2005:
“All the major Scottish police forces maintain their own Special Branch squad and often co-operate with visiting MI5 officers: in 2002 and 2003, terrorism suspects were detained in Edinburgh and Glasgow. But the creation of the Glasgow bureau will mark the first time the agency has had a fixed presence north of the Border.
The final site of the Glasgow office is uncertain, but Pacific Quay, home to the Scottish Criminal Records Office, sometimes hosts seconded MI5 agents”
Right, so we have a permanent presence of MI5 agents in Scotland, plus seconded MI5 agents to Pacific Quay and visiting MI5 agents to the Scottish police. So we are infested with them everywhere.
We also know that the secret services comes to Scottish Universities to recruit often, as the MI5 Director General on June 2023 told us during his lecture “Maths and MI5: the calculations that keep the country safe” (delivered in Glasgow University, on June 2023):
“That’s why I’m delighted, for example, that this summer we are running a data science and machine learning summer experience, delivered jointly with the Alan Turing Institute. This will allow school-age students – particularly those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds – to learn about data science and its application to national security. This is all in the hope that these young people and their peers consider a future career in defence and security and in AI.
I’m sure we’ll get strong take-up.”
So they appear to be targeting those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Presumably making them offers they cannot refuse.
How many “reporters” are security service or actively working with security services against Scotland’s independence?
How many security service operatives are based at the new UK government building in Edinburgh?
Why could the security services possibly feel so threatened by Mr Salmond when alive and why could they still be so desperate to make Mr Salmond’s memory, as a much loved and admired political leader, disappear?
There is only one plausible explanation for me:
Mr Salmond did not really lose the 2014 referendum. And for as long as his memory, inspiration and energy remain alive in our minds, the same will happen again.
Was that the reason why they denied us a referendum?
Excellent comment Mia – I recall the SNP paying for a tutor, to train staff on how to answer questions with an inquiry in mind – The John Smith Centre at the UoG is a Mi5 safe house – as is Kensington House in Glasgow – and Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh – there are other safe houses for them in Scotland – usually they are government buildings.
Scotland is hoaching with useful idiots/informants for the union – and our parliament, judicary, COPFS, police force etc has more than its fair share of them.
The likes of MI5 are enemies of Scotland and Scottish democracy. At every turn they wil do their utmost to thwart an end to English rule over Scotland. That is, after all, their job. They work for England, not Scotland.
And yes, the ‘uk (English) colonial government’ building in Edinburgh, is indeed, likely hoaching with them. Nothing else really happens there. Probably why it was actually built in the first place.
Oh honestly, take off the tin foil hat. How do you “know” any of this? You must be terrified for your safety, after all exposing such a dastardly plot involving so many at the heart of the Scottish establishment on the most-read Scottish political blog, they’ll surely be coming for you.
Anyone STILL using the term ” tin foil hat ” at this late stage , when we know the depths ” our ” State apparatus will plumb , the endless , brain-numbing lies , how it orchestrates coordinated attacks on anyone/thing exposing it’s bad faith & lunatic policies is either naive to the point of imbecility or fully behind such State abuse of power .
There are supposed intelligent adults in and around Government telling us , eg Men can become Women and vice-a-versa , and you are still trotting-out the hackneyed would-be dismissal trope of ” tin foil hat ” . Just what the State prefers , complaisant/compliant drones unable/willing to accept their supposed benefactor couldn’t give a solitary fuck about ” the people ” , cares only for it’s monopoly of Power and will go to any lengths to preserve this Power .
The recent joke used to be ….
Q .What’s the difference between a ” Conspiracy Theory ” & a ” Conspiracy ” fact ?
A . About 5 years .
Now the answer is – about 6 months .
Remember the totally contrived hysteria around ” Covid ” – how we were COMMANDED to wear ridiculous masks ( some even complied with this to the extent of wearing a mask whilst driving in their cars – alone ! ) and socially distance ? Bet you don’t remember how it came-out , in fact , was admitted , that those two commands were completely worthless , made-up nonsense , which done more harm than good – likewise Lockdown , the damage from which is still being felt , economically , in mental health terms and in young people’s interrupted education & social interaction .
Rather a ” tin foil hat ” than rose-tinted glasses & clown suit
It is a fair and reasonable term appropriately used to describe people who promote wild, fantastical conspiracies for which they can produce endless diatribe, but no evidence. The subject may differ, but the characteristics and methods are remarkably similar, people with no apparent profession or occupation of any note, no contacts or routes to gain inside information, online continuously writing posts in poor English with random words capitalised, who yet despite all of those things, have uncovered the deepest, most shocking state secrets, which if true, would be known only to those at the heart of the security services.
Aye , those ” randomly words capitalised ” are a dead give away of mad * conspiracies * , right ?
Of course there are crazy ideas propagated , eg the ” Betty 2 & Family are alien lizards ” fantasy : there have always been such ludicrous ideas – have you read the Bible, Koran or other supposed ” Sacred Texts ? But what’s happening now is the term ” Conspiracy Theory ” is being used to dismiss anything that runs counter to the prevailing , * official * narrative .
As soon as we heard pathological liars like Sturgeon use that term we should have understood how it is used to cover any and all State malfeasance and abuse of power
Mia has already given you sources.
Example
We also know that the secret services comes to Scottish Universities to recruit often, as the MI5 Director General on June 2023 told us during his lecture “Maths and MI5: the calculations that keep the country safe” (delivered in Glasgow University, on June 2023):
“That’s why I’m delighted, for example, that this summer we are running a data science and machine learning summer experience, delivered jointly with the Alan Turing Institute. This will allow school-age students – particularly those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds – to learn about data science and its application to national security. This is all in the hope that these young people and their peers consider a future career in defence and security and in AI.
I’m sure we’ll get strong take-up.”
A simple Google search of keywords brings up the Alan Turing institute & the Turing Summer Experience & this speech. Hardly tin foil hat shit eh?
But here’s one for you. Documentary on the lengths the English & the security services have went to, over decades, to retain Scotlands wealth & quash Independence, the SNP & even infiltrate the SNP themselves & as you are so keen on evidence the presenter is even in Kew showing hard evidence of recently unlocked government files.
A mix of English & subtitles for the parts in Gaelic. Starting with documents on the McCrone report & documents everything through the ages from the fake blowing up of post boxes to fury of stealing the Stone of Destiny.
Do come back after you’ve watched it & spout pish about tin foil hats.
Eejits like you believe MI5 only exists in other far off places yet ignores their biggest threat to wealth & international status living right next door to it. Aye right! Gies peace! Its you that’s the fantasist.
//youtu.be/v96-EvO6pf8?si=9BTeSu_zlf4EgSRt
This sounds like a good description of all the britnats who endlessly churn out their England good, Scotland bad BS.
BTW, have you ever heard of paragraphs?
Jist tae confirm yir PREDJUDICE, wid ye go awa an FUK yir bunnet intae a tinfoil hat an gie’s aw peace!!!
Maybe this is an occasion where where the Moorov doctrine is accurate.
“How do you “know” any of this?”
By reading other sources than the BBC and by routinely applying reasoning and critical thinking to what I read.
My comment above indicates some sources and the train of thought that, when combined with the recent disparaging articles against Mr Salmond, have prompted:
To access the quotes I mentioned, you can go here:
“Maths and MI5: the calculations that keep the country safe” Published on 30 June 2023 on the section “News and Speeches” of the website “Security Service MI5” Accessed 17 October 2024
and here:
On 5 February 2021 at 5:50, Mr Murray added the following comment to his article “In Conversation with Mark McNaught”, published on the 5 February 2021 on his blog:
“Yes, Harvie was in the FCO at the same time as me and I can confirm he was formerly full time MI5″
And here:
The following quote was taken from the article “Alex Salmond. Always My Hero”, published by Mr Murray on his blog on the 13 October 2024:
“But what stays with me most about that evening, in a bedroom of the George Hotel in Edinburgh, is that what he told me made it absolutely obvious that the plot against him was initiated in and directed from Nicola Sturgeon’s office. He was plainly in huge emotional pain over this.
He was also focused on Liz Lloyd, whom he believed to be an MI5 agent. He said that Lloyd had no connection to Scottish Independence and had initially been placed inside the SNP as an intern to an MP (or MSP, I forget) by a British Government graduate training scheme”
And here:
“How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper”Written by Kennard, M & Curtis, M and published on the website “Declassified UK” on 10 September 2019.
If you are keen to read more, continuing in the same website, you can also amuse yourself by reading these other articles like this one:
“Revealed: After clearing MI5 of torture, Keir Starmer attended its chief’s leaving party” written by Kennard, M and published on “Declassified UK” on the 25 May 2023
or this one:
“How UK military and spy agencies are weaponising social justice” Written by India, F and published on “Declassified UK” on 30 March 2022
or this one, which I particularly like:
“FILM REVIEW: “The man who knew too much”, written by Nasser, U and published on “Declassified UK” on 4 October 2021.I was particularly interested in the “Clockwork Orange” operation. My immediate question was: was it and is it still being used against Mr Salmond?
You can also amuse yourself reading this one:
“UK information operations in the time of coronavirus” written by King, C and Miller, D and published on “Declassified Uk” on 30 September 2020.In this article, I point you towards the paragraphs speaking of Mr Douglas Chapman and the paragraphs talking about the comments of Stewart McDonald and his suggestions for a “national resilience force” which, in his words, “could be adopted by the UK gov on a larger scale”.
But of course, by Mr McDonald’s acknowledgement according to the article, “his thinking was heavily influenced by the Modern Deterrence Project, an influential think tank with close ties to the British defence establishment”.
By the look of it, this is something they were keen to put in practice as per this comment in the article: “The proposal was greeted warmly in the New Statesman which noted that the project’s director, Elisabeth Braw, was liaising directly with McDonald on the issue. Braw called for all government agencies linked to national security, including the National Health Service, to be able to select 18-year-olds for training in a variety of disciplines.”
Let me know if you would like me to point you towards more information that is freely available on the internet and therefore in the public domain.
Enjoy the reading.
Sorry what am I supposed to be looking at here, i can’t see a single piece of evidence support this idea that there was an MI5 plot against Alex Salomond, save for Craig Murray’s bare assertion that Liz Lloyd “might” have been an MI5 agent (an extraordinary claim for which there is, no evidence). The idea that MI5 ‘recruiting from Scottish universities’ is some kind of evidence of a plot is laughable, all branches of government recruit graduates from universities around the United Kingdom. Likewise with destroying laptops owned by the Guardian newspaper, i can definitely see why GCHQ would directly destroy incredibly sensitive documents illegally leaked and which the newspaper was not holding securely or may have been intending to publish in part.
Bluntly, there is no evidence of anything other than the ordinary functions that you would expect the national security services to carry out.
The more that I think of it, perhaps you are an FSB ?. MIA could stand for Ministry of Internal Affairs, and we know the FSB is interested in recruiting people in the U.K., which it sees as a major target. You are also claiming to special access to intelligence an ordinary person would have any way to obtain. We know that Julian Manjahi posed as an art dealer in Scotland. Applying my ‘critical faculties’ by which we mean inventing wild stories, I think it’s off to Belmarsh for you.
“save for Craig Murray’s bare assertion that Liz Lloyd “might” have been an MI5 agent”
Don’t forget the crown agent.
“an extraordinary claim for which there is, no evidence”
Where is the evidence that she is not?
Why wasn’t she interviewed during the Parliamentary Inquiry like everybody else was, despite emails from one of the other civil servants indicating that her “interference was very bad”? What was so special about this particular woman that managed to evade every form of scrutiny?
What about when she was caught with her paws on the campaign of Yousaf to become leader of the SNP? As a civil servant, that was a direct breach of the civil service code of conduct. Why wasn’t she sacked on the spot for violating the code?
Mr Davis revealed under parliamentary privilege that this woman was linked to the leakage to the newspaper. The leak was actually a crime. So why wasn’t she arrested and prosecuted?
This woman was not a politician at the time. So what the hell was she doing in the trip of the jolly boys and girls to USA? This woman was already chief of staff at the time, a very senior position and well above the position of everybody else in that trip. So what the hell was she doing in a leadership programme for junior politicians?
Are we to believe that the fact that the man who would actually publish the leak she was accused by Davis to be involved in was in the same trip just as a coincidence?
Somehow this woman appears made of teflon, because the law does not appear to apply to her.
May be we need to wait until Mr Davis is ready to release more information on the matter under parliamentary privilege before we can decide one way or the other.
It would be a weird world if we assume everybody is an MI5 agent unless they can prove that they are not.
A lack of accountability for wrongdoing in Sturgeons Scottish government should not surprise anyone who reads this blog. But that does not go any way to proving that one civil servant is an MI5 agent does it.
“That does not go any way to proving that one civil servant is an MI5 agent does it”
Indeed it does not prove that ONE civil servant is an MI5 agent. Because there might have been/are far MORE than a single secret service operative/plant working from inside and outside that government.
Looking at how things have happened and how individuals from what should have been independent services were relocated to other jobs rather than disciplined and sacked, it is quite likely that there are several of them. And not just in the civil service, but also in the SNP, police and COPFS.
That would nicely explain why not a single one of those corrupt civil servants was ever prosecuted, never mind sacked, for embarking in a clearly politically motivated unlawful complaints procedure.
A complaints procedure that, lets not forget, looks eerily similar and almost simultaneous to the one that caused the loss of Mr Carl Sargeant’s life and which also happened to be cooked up by the UK civil service, this time based in Wales.
The existence of that case in Wales which mirrors the case in Scotland, points towards an strategy that was concocted outwith Scotland and at high levels within the UK civil service.
Embarking in the complaints procedure was in itself a gross breach of the civil service code of conduct that demands political impartiality. Yet, those civil servants were falling over themselves to rush this procedure through to trap Mr Salmond when they didn’t even have anything remotely similar, nor they ever bothered in creating it, for the civil service itself. So they were very clearly overreaching and seeking to fabricate a one-use tool to apply to an inconvenient man who was no longer bound by the ministerial code.
Yet, not a single one of those corrupt civil servants was ever disciplined, never mind sacked. Some of the most infamous ones were even awarded increases in salary or were moved to other jobs.
That is not the kind of thing you do when an employee’s gross misconduct and incompetence results in a civil court case, which trashes the employer’s reputation and punishes them with having to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages. You increase an employee’s salary or promote them when you are rewarding them for walking the extra mile beyond their duties.
So who was directing them? Who/What were they walking the extra mile for?
Some of the mistakes they made and that costed the government the civil case were the kind of mistakes only amateurs would make.
Yet those were experienced, senior civil servants who knew the rules. So they knew they were breaking them. And not just that. They had legal advice during the process.
So, what/who exactly gave them the confidence that they could breach the law and break the rules with such impunity and in such a crass manner without fearing for the consequences?
Who was empowering them to feel they were above the law? That can only be the secret service, because the FM of the day could not offer any guarantees that they would be there the next day, the next month or the next year to protect them.
And which is the only entity in the UK that is above the law and outwith scrutiny?
That will be the secret service
Who has the authority, other than the courts, to impose a suppression of information of high public interest and potentially get rid of evidence that could pervert the cause of justice?
That will be the secret service.
With regards to Mr Salmond’s case, evidence was suppressed from the public on industrial scale. And that suppression of information continues today.
There are two sides suppressing that information, the Scottish government and the COPFS. Why are the alphabetes being protected and given forever anonymity when they were not even recognised as “victims” by a jury of their peers and when their claims were completely trashed in a court of law?
The excuse of that anonymity has been conveniently abused to suppress information from the public on an industrial scale. So any documents/communication of high public interest which happened to have the names of these individuals were heavily redacted, never mind if those documents had anything to do with the criminal case or not.
The judge that conferred anonymity to those individuals was on record stating that it was ridiculous that such anonymity was being used by the government to redact any document that had the name of these people. Clearly that was never the purpose behind giving them legal anonymity.
So the order to suppress that information did not come from the court. So where did the authority to suppress information from the public when that anonymity did not justify it, come from, exactly?
Intrusion of the secret service within the operation of the civil service in Scotland could nicely explain why so much information has been deliberately suppressed from the public by abusing the excuse of legal anonymity. It could also explain why Mr Salmond was unable to use the infamous whasapp messages and other information to defend himself in court and the parliamentary inquiry.
What/Who are those Whatsapp messages hiding? Could they be hiding the secret services operative who was coordinating the whole operation, for example?
Why exactly were those UK civil servants treating the hunting and trapping of Mr Salmond, as if it was “a war”? Since when is the job of unelected UK civil servants to get rid of Scottish political figures to preserve the union? Who was the “general” commanding this so called “Vietnam Group” into war with the man who almost brought Scotland to its independence, just because he announced his interest in returning to politics?
What possible legitimate interest could a mere civil servant have in forever removing from Scotland’s politics the man who almost delivered independence, unless they had been instructed to do so by a higher power?
When the memogate nonsense happened in 2015, the highest ranking civil servant in the UK launched a formal investigation. The culprit was easily found. Why was the investigation of the leak to the newspaper left to the incompetent Evans when it was obvious to even a toddler that she could not possibly be impartial in the matter because it happened under her watch and therefore she should have been held responsible for it?
Why wasn’t she sacked for failing to protect confidential and highly sensitive information from reaching the newspapers? Why was she rewarded for her superlative incompetence with an increase in salary after allowing an unlawful complaints procedure to proceed in the first place? Why was she rewarded after dragging the ScotGov into a civil court cases that cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds? Why was she rewarded when she ensured the court case would continue by suppressing crucial information from their external counsel that clearly pointed to an unwinable case since day one? Why was she rewarded with an increase in salary after spectacularly failing to protect confidential information and after failing to find the culprit who, under her watch, leaked the information?
Any of those “mistakes” should have led to her dismissal for gross misconduct. So why wasn’t she sacked by her UK civil service boss?
That enormous incongruence can only be explained if she was doing all dirty work under the instruction of a higher entity that could guarantee that she would not be disciplined/sacked. That can only be her Civil Servant boss – The cabinet secretary.
Who was the cabinet secretary from 2018 to 2020? Mark Sedwill.
According to the Guardian:
“Not only was he cabinet secretary but he also occupied the role of national security adviser, an unusual arrangement that May preferred but which some felt did not provide enough variety of opinion at the very top of government”…
“With a CV suggesting connections with MI5 and MI6, Sedwill has been portrayed as a spook happier in the company of spies and soldiers rather than those who want to wield a political axe”
(Quotes extracted from The Guardian, “Relationship between No 10 and Mark Sedwill was no longer tenable”, written by Kate Proctor and published on 28 June 2020)
Sedwell became acting Cabinet Secretary in June 2018.
According to Wikipedia, he acted as UK National Security Adviser from 13 April 2017 to September 2020.
The UK GE was announced on the 18 April 2017 and took place on 8 June 2017, which is when Mr Salmond lost the seat thanks to tactical voting of unionists.
The Sky nonsense about the airport and Mr Salmond kicked in in November 2017, which was also when all the “project” of the complaints procedure both in Scotland and Wales was launched.
The leak to the newspaper took place in August 2018.
Mr Salmond was arrested in January 2019
According to Wikipedia, “In a February 2019 interview Sedwill said he would retain his role as National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister since becoming Cabinet Secretary is part of moves to make a success of Brexit”.
Right, the immediate question is: was “politically neutralising” Mr Salmond part of Mr Sedwill’s to “make a success of Brexit”?
It stands to the obvious even to a child that brexit would have never been successful should Scotland have become independent.
Mr Salmond was acquitted of all criminal charges in March 2020.
Sedwell left the position of Cabinet Secretary on 9 September 2020.
So all the monumental mess the UK civil service allocated to the Scottish government created happened under the watch of Mark Sedwell.
Yet, on the 11 September he was created “Baron Sedwill, of Sherborne in the County of Dorset
It very much looks like that incompetence and law breaking in industrial scale through bringing forward unlawful complaints procedures, allowing leakages of confidential information in direct breach of GDPR, fabricating criminal charges and political conspiracies to neutralise inconvenient people, suppression of information of high public interest by hiding on a fabricated case for anonymity, suppression of information from external council resulting in the prolonging of an unwinnable court case and the wastage of millions of pounds of thaxpayers’ money pays off when you are the highest ranking civil servant or following orders.
Also according to Wikipedia:
“He is the second Cabinet Secretary never to have worked at HM Treasury, and the first whose career has been dominated by diplomatic and security work”
Still unconvinced that the Scot Gov and, actually, all Scotland’s institutions of power were infested with spooks during the tenure of a man of the highest ranking civil service post and who was described as “a spook happier in the company of spies rather than those who want to wield a political axe”?
Do expressions such as “we lost a battle but not the war” or “the Vietnam Group” or “get him to fight in may fronts” used by civil servants perhaps start to make a bit more sense when it is known that they were used under a boss “who is happier in the company of soldiers than those who wield a political axe”?
It’s a lovely if extravagant story, but unfortunately it lacks the thing that all fairy tales and conspiracy theories lack, which is positive evidence. In comparison, the accurate version of events (a conspiracy by Nicola Sturgeon and her inner circle) is supported overwhelmingly by numerous independent sources of evidence. You also have to consider, if MI5 were behind this, would it really be managed in such a cack handed way and allowed to unravel like this. Would MI5 really send instructions on a WhatsApp group and entrust people whose loyalty can’t be assured, with the gravest of grave state secrets? If we are in the realms of speculation without evidence, that is surely where it leads us
“which is positive evidence”
ahahahahaha!!!!!!!
Your attempts to narrow the scope of the discussion by deliberately removing from it the evident limitation of your stance, which is the lack of evidence to the contrary, is far too obvious to be missed.
If you want to change my mind you are going to have to provide irrefutable and credible evidence that, in the context of:
that woman and some other crucial individuals involved in the conspiracy, working within the UK gov civil service, SNP and COPFS are not MI5 operatives/plants, or civil servants following direct instruction from a Cabinet Secretary/Head of the Home Office, who happened to be simultaneously the UK National Security Advisor, who publicly admitted that his remit was to ensure Brexit was a success, and who has been openly described in the MSM as having a preference to work with spooks and soldiers rather than engaging in standard political procedure.
We all know that the return of Mr Salmond to politics and his pushing for independence was a threat, not only to brexit, but more importantly, to the credibility of the British state when attempting to secure trade deals with other countries. The threat to the integrity of the UK was at the highest because Scotland had, at that point, an absolute majority of anti-union MPs in Westminster which could have simply (if they had had the balls) reconvened the old Scottish parliament and end the union. The British state knew a charlatan and carrot dangler extraordinaire like Sturgeon would never find the backbone nor the will to end the union. If anybody would, would be Mr Salmond. That is why they had to, remove him from Westminster and then haphazardly from the SNP when he announced that he would return. They needed to do this to ensure that he would never be again in a position to influence that majority of anti-union MPs.
“if MI5 were behind this, would it really be managed in such a cack handed way and allowed to unravel like this”
Absolutely, why not? What makes you think everybody is predisposed to believe MI5 are competent, thorough and only work within the confines of common law rather than behaving as a blunt last resource weapon deployed to eliminate an imminent threat? Take the case of Willy McRae, for example, can anybody seriously believe that was a “clean” operation rather than a cack-handed one which opened a pandora box full of questions and left a trail of untied ends?
“Would MI5 really send instructions on a WhatsApp group and entrust people whose loyalty can’t be assured, with the gravest of grave state secrets?”
When you have a spook as UK Cabinet Secretary and Head of the UK Home Civil Service, somebody who is described as preferring to work with spooks and soldiers and who described his remit as ensuring Brexit works, it is incredibly naive to even suggest that there are no spooks throughout the entire structures of governance in Scotland when its independence is the major threat that could have jeopardised brexit.
At some point you’re going to get a terrible shock when you realise how many people abuse positions of authority and are not held accountable for doing so. The “me too” movement gave and still gives a huge amount of coverage for persecutory witch hunts, including this one. This would have been known by Sturgeon et al. when they embarked on a campaign to prevent her predecessor returning to front line politics.
Bluntly, your version of events is not capable of being believed. Firstly, it isn’t supported by any evidence. There is nothing positive to link MI5 to this. Secondly, the story is that MI5, a highly sophisticated security agency launched a plan that could have become the biggest scandal in the history of the biggest state, but failed to undertake even basic precautions to keep it secret, or to ensure its success. The plan supposedly involves a huge number of people, many hostile to Scotland remaining in the Union, any of whom could blow the whistle at any time. The “plan” would be conducted so overtly and in plain sight that it would create countless questions and lines of enquiry, yet they relied on similarly countless people all being inside the tent and prepared to keep their mouths shut, despite having little or no incentive to do so. It’s just silly.
“The “me too” movement”
Please don’t make me laugh. If you think for even a second that I have ever believed that the “me too” shite has been anything else than a convenient excuse used by the powers that be in the UK to deploy these political tools so they could get rid of the inconveniences who could have obstructed their beloved brexshit, you are completely wasting your time (and mine).
“it isn’t supported by any evidence”
You are starting to sound like a broken record. For third time, where is yours? Where is your evidence that demonstrates for once and for all that the structures of Scotland’s government, prosecution service, UK Civil Service allocated to Scotland, police and even the political parties are not infested with secret services plants and operatives?
Demanding evidence from others when you are deliberately avoiding to provide any while carefully attempt to deflect from it at every opportunity is neither convincing nor adds any credibility to your stance. Quite the opposite in fact. It makes you look like a serial deflector who is well aware their argument has not a leg to stand on.
“a plan that could have become the biggest scandal in the history”
The biggest scandal indeed. There must have been a very good reason why the state has been applying all its power to suppress the information from the public and why it has been protecting criminal leakers, perjurers, conspirators, breachers of the civil service code, and individuals who not only might have perverted the cause of justice, but have actually assaulted democracy by attempting to remove a political figure they did not like from active politics.
Yes how dare I ask for evidence, we should just accept whatever wild-eye, deluded and deranged theories the maddest in society put forward. You play MI5, I raise you the Loch Ness monster. Can you prove the Loch Ness monster isn’t having a terrifying and debilitating effect on the ethical practices within the Scottish civil service? I’ve heard Nessie is a Yoon and so has every incentive to take down the leading light in independence. That’s what you sound like. It’s your swivel eyed rant, so you need to prove there’s some evidence to support it. If you want some positive evidence for what I say happened, you can look at the outcome of the Scottish parliamentary inquiry, the statements of David Davis or of Alex Salmond himself. You just need to start with a clean slate and let the evidence guide you.
Aidan, just laugh at what “Mia” writes. The nutcase conspiracy theories “Mia” churns out aren’t worth a more measured response.
Yes, laugh away to your heart’s content.
My post below does not contain “nutcase conspiracy theories” as you claime. It actually contains quotes and signposts to articles, currently in the public domain, which demonstrate the abuses of MI5 and how it operates as it is above the law.
Some of those quotes are from ex-MI5 operatives themselves.
Of particular interest, I must say, is the article of the Guardian, published on 24 July 2015, that is just a few weeks after Scotland sent 56 anti-union MPs to Westminster, with the title “Nicola Sturgeon asks whether UK agencies spied on Scottish politicians”
In that article it is spelled in black and white that GCHQ made an unilateral decision to update the Wilson doctrine practice. The Wilson doctrine practice is a rule that prohibited spies from monitoring communications by members of parliament. But GCHQ changed those rules so they could spy members of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland parliaments.
The article from the Guardian titled “Intelligence agency policies ‘failed to protect MPs’ from spying”, published on 23 July 2015, told us that it was told in court that “The UK’s intelligence agencies had operated unlawful surveillance policies over members of parliament”.
“It was told to the IPT (a secretive court that hears complaints about the UK’s intelligence agencies) that MI5 operated one policy governing the interception of parliamentarians’ communications from April 2012 to September 2014″
Isn’t that fascinating that April 2012 to September 2014 covers precisely the full campaign of the 2014 referendum?
That article of the Guardian also told us that “the IPT heard at the time that David Miliband, when foreign secretary, authorised an MI6 policy which allowed the agency to intercept parliamentarians’ communications without the prime minister being notified”.
The article also told us that “When GCHQ rewrote its policy on June 2015, it did so in a way that removed all protection for communications data and for members of the devolved parliament and assemblies in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales”
Let’s remember that in June 2015 the SNP had an absolute majority of MSPs and MPs.
You are still shooting blanks, I see
Lots of shooting, lots of blanks, lots of deflective ranting but you have provided any evidence whatsoever so far that the British state secret services have not infiltrated Scotland’s government structures and political parties.
“MI5, a highly sophisticated security agency”
Sophisticated it might be, but they are well known for their blunders and thinking the law does not apply to them.Here are some examples:
“The Guardian view on MI5’s missed opportunities: failures of analysis” published 3 March 2023
“Landmark Snoopers’ Charter ruling exposes years of rule-breaking by MI5Posted on “LIberty” 30 Jan 2023
“Years of MI5 lawbreaking expose failure of UK surveillance safeguards”
Published on “About Intel”, 13 February 2020
“IER President releases ‘explosive’ report on MI5 infiltration of the left”Published on “IER, Institute of Employment Rights”, 15 October 2020
“The State’s Secret War on Dissent” Written by Daniela Lock, and published on “Tribune” on 10.03.2022. Interesting quotes of this article are, for example:”Last month, a Welsh BLM group disbanded after an attempted police infiltration. It’s proof that police spying poses an existential threat to our social movements – especially since the state has just vastly expanded those powers”
Or this one:
“The British government honed its infiltration techniques while oppressing anti-colonial dissent. Colonial police relied on intelligence-gathering to identify sources of rebellion against British rule, and intelligence agencies were created across the world with the task of infiltrating communities fostering anti-colonial subversion”
or this one:
“Other harms, however, have been less talked about. One is the general damage done to the effectiveness of political organising. State infiltration of senior organising positions often means disruption to the workings of an organisation as a whole.”
Or this one:
“In addition to equipping the state with information that helps it attack a movement, the betrayal of trust constituted by state infiltration can undermine solidarity to such an extent that organising becomes impossible”…”Given, then, that the ability to organise is a basic tenet of democracy, it’s clear that any system containing such broad surveillance powers is a threat to democracy as a whole”
This is exactly what we see in Scotland today: solidarity with the SNP and the SNP government has been completely undermined in such a way that the SNP as a party is finished and any trust in it is gone.
This quote from the article titled “Nicola Sturgeon asks whether UK agencies spied on Scottish politicians – Cameron faces questions after GCHQ changed rules to allow eavesdropping on members of devolved parliaments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland” is fascinating:“faced with the challenge from Lucas, Jones and Galloway, the agencies rewrote their guidelines, apparently leading GCHQ to formally introduce a distinction in March to the Wilson doctrine to authorise surveillance of members of the Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.The revelation that GCHQ treats MSPs differently from MPs threatens to ignite fresh suspicions that British spies were active during the Scottish independence referendum campaign and will treat nationalist politicians as a special case.”
This quote was extracted from the article of the title stated above and written by Severin Carrell, Steven Morris, Ian Cobain and Henry McDonald and published on The Guardian on 24 July 2015.
And then there is this jewel:
“I have seen this nightmare unfold from close quarters. In the mid-90s I was an intelligence officer for MI5, the UK domestic security service. That is, until I resigned to help my former partner and colleague David Shayler blow the whistle on a catalogue of incompetence, cover-ups and crimes committed by spies. We naively hoped that this would lead to an inquiry, and a review of intelligence work and accountability within the notoriously secretive British system.
The blunders and illegal operations that we witnessed in our six years at MI5 took place at what is probably the most ethical and accountable decade in the British spying service’s 100-year history.
Even then, they were getting away with pretty much whatever they wanted.”
And this:
“The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), which was designed to allow our spy agencies to lawfully intercept our communications to counter terrorism and organised crime, has been routinely used and abused by almost 800 public bodies. MI5 admitted to making 1,061 mistakes or ‘administrative errors’ this year alone in its application of RIPA”
And this:
“Intelligence creep extends to the police, as we saw with the undercover police scandal earlier this year, where the unaccountable National Public Order Intelligence Unit was discovered to be infiltrating harmless and legitimate protest groups for years on end”
And this:
“When I worked for MI5 in the 1990s I was appalled how easily telephone interception could be used illegally, and how easily the spies could hide their incompetence and crimes from the government. In the last decade it has become much worse, with senior spies and police officers repeatedly being caught out lying to the toothless intelligence and Security Committee in Parliament”
The four quotes above were written by Annie Machon. Article Title: “Analysis: The slide into a surveillance state” Published on “The Bureau of Investigative Journalism” on 30 Nov 2011.
So, if the secret services routinely infiltrate harmless and legitimate protest groups and they seem to see fit to actually eavesdropping on devolved governments and parliaments, do you seriously expect us to believe they will not infiltrate a government and political party that has the potential to end the UK?
Don’t make me laugh. There are plenty of reports that demonstrate they infiltrated the IRA all the way from bottom to top.
“a conspiracy by Nicola Sturgeon and her inner circle”
?
You cannot seriously expect us to believe Nicola Sturgeon and her inner circle were also responsible for the botched complaints procedure in Wales which resulted in Mr Sargeant’s death and which mirroed in characteristics and time the one in Scotland, can you?
Are you telling me that Carl Sergeant was also bumped off by MI5? Bloody hell, it seems like nobodies safe!
Nope. What I am saying is that the fact that a similar, very dodgy complaints procedure was developed for Scotland and Wales and deployed almost simultaneously suggests it was a strategy orchestrated and commanded from a point in the hierarchy of the UK Civil Service which was above the rank of devolved administration “Permanent Secretary”.
With the National Security bill, which effectively legalises security services staff becoming state sponsored criminals that can trample all over democracy, you are absolutely right. Nobody is safe.
I see, so Carl Sargeant was the victim of a badly drafted and implemented sexual harassment process, but Alex Salmond was the victim of an MI5 plot.
Congratulations ‘Aidan’ – you’re our latest ‘name’.
Mebbies the site prick will lend you his Daily Heil once he’s read it from cover to cover.
I have a hunch that Aidan has been around for a long time and was one of the more obnoxious trolls on WOS in the lead-up to the referendum.
If you sit around on your flabby, plukey erse all day, endlessly posting mince on here, it’s almost like an industrial injury.
But no need to be a martyr, Michael. The internet is hoaching with posture correctors. Plenty for under 30 GBP, and free delivery too.
I think that’s what’s known as projection.
Aidan maybe even mi5 perhaps. He doth protest too much. Almost Certainly paid to troll this site. Why would he persevere with his Interaction so doggedly in the face of evidence and derision.
Yes.
If they were so confident they’d win they’d have offered a referendum with strings attached like applying a lock or something. If it was a naw the question couldn’t be asked again for x amount of time. They didn’t.
Also Indy was winning about 10 days out from the referendum & suddenly there was hundreds of thousands only just registering to vote despite a two yr campaign in a
stampede “late surge”- aye right! A few hundred I could believe. Hundreds of thousands? Naw.Then there was the poll they locked away on the state of the union. I guess they didn’t like the attitudes & the results as they refused to hand it over saying it was a matter of national security – but here, we could let you have some cricket on the telly! That’ll unite the union. NOT. They’ve tried to bring it in to the colony via Edinburgh. Mini England.
Then there was that forever pinned Scottish Tory poll – say no to indyref2. They never published the results but they didn’t need to – the comments were enough & enlightening as ppl were outrage back in 2014 when Cameron put the boot into no voters that they were getting fck all after all. No Devo & definitely no near federalism. I think the GE 2015 was the backlash to that kick in the teeth.
Then the complete transformation of the SNP under Sturgeon & Angus Robertsons ‘reforms’ Conferences/ SNP offices hoaching with men in grey suits as Craig Murray noted. Conference agendas heavily doctored & as Iain Lawson also wrote, the capture of the NEC , getting rid of the parties National council & getting rid of party democracy paved the way for Stalins little sister to rule with an iron fist & surround herself with harpies to completely take over the party.
Holyrood needs a good clean out but it’ll never be free of spooks because Holyrood is their outpost in Scotland. It needs closing & Scotland to reconvene her own parliament. Get rid of NGOs & Lobby groups. They’re only full of plants too to sow discord & are an extension of the British state.
Iain Lawson ‘how to take over a party’
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
Thank you, Stu, for still being here to shred the unspeakably malicious, cowardly and vile attacks on our National Hero. It is sickening to see these maggots trying to feed off the corpse of that most special man whom they drove to a premature death. Thanks to you and a number of others, we can only hope that the vile abusers of AS are brought to justice, very soon, and that they are made to suffer ten, a hundred, times as much as they made him suffer in these last years of his life. And he has still won as the Dream will Never Die! Ever!
A woman goes to see her doctor.
Doctor: Hi, how can I help you today?
Woman: I’m really worried Doctor and I need your advice.
Doctor: Well, what seems to be the problem?
Woman: This is a bit embarrassing, but can you get pregnant by having anal sex?
Doctor: Well yes you can actually.
Woman: OMG, really?
Doctor: Yes, where do you think politicians and journalists come from?
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
I sense much fear in you Kenny Farquharson”..
And Alex Salmond has now become more powerful than he could possibly imagine.
Apart from the identity of the accusers being a huge giveaway that this was a conspiracy( convenient that they get lifelong anonymity as revealing it would be national headlines for weeks) I don’t ever recall getting the answer to this question…
Who recorded Salmonds lawyer on the train? Are we supposed to believe it was passer by and not someone trying to dig up extra dirt.
Kenny Farquarson and Adam Ramsey should be ashamed of themselves. Justice clearly no longer exists in Scotland and is undermined by these two posh wanks.
we dont know the context of that train conversation and there is no doubt it was set up and managed to sound very different to what context would have helped us understand. He may have been discussing and speaking a quote for example, that was cut out of the recording, or may have been fed alcohol and then been led to misrepresent facts. We dont know, but I am sure most of us have been caught out by being quoted out of context by someone with an agenda. So easy to do to misrepresent facts.
Unusually clear audio for a busy train at a distance, as if a directional microphone was used. Full recording never released but the press still reported on it, many of them was just 2nd hand reporting.
A scandal in itself.
To call them cunts would be crass of me, but I sure as hell can think they are cunts of the highest order
or maybe they are slimy wankstains.
Nah; they lack the warmth and the depth…
I wish I hadn’t read that. Alex Salmond hasn’t even been buried yet.
Bitter old Kenny. I dont know if he knows Liz Lloyd as well as David Clegg does but he’s certainly in her Twitter Bubble as evidenced here:
link to peteryoungdk.blog
Forensically dismembered, Rev. The thing that really strikes me is how many of these bile-ridden people shout about the ‘poor’ women, but happily go overboard for ‘trans’, which sets back female rights centuries. The total lack of cognitive ability and the complete embrace of cognitive dissonance is unforgivable.
A dog with no nose could have sniffed out that they wanted rid of Mr Salmond from the political scene – some out of envy and jealousy, some out of sheer spite and some because they feared what he might do to the Union if he returned to frontline politics.
The first two complaints about Mr Salmond were made about his style, and nothing to do with sexual behaviour at all. He apologized and the women were offered other positions of equal status. They refused, and worked with him for another two years. I have always believed that they were tricked into making later statements and complaints and must now bitterly regret ever having become involved.
The procedure was flawed and illegitimate. No one else has ever been brought to book through said procedure. The Whitehall Civil Service warned Holyrood about retrospective procedures, but they ignored that advice.
Nah, they wanted him and only him. Add to that, that the security services very likely had/have people in place at Holyrood. The British State and Holyrood came together – even if inadvertently and separately, as it were – to bring him down, because neither wanted him to return to frontline politics. They both had the same agenda, but for different reasons.
Probably, the BS saw how the wind was blowing in Holyrood and decided to make hay while the sun shone – if you’ll pardon the metaphors. The Scots are the very best betrayers of Scots ever. The long line of toom tabards seems never to be exhausted.
A post well writ Lorna. I just wonder what these cunts hope to achieve having destroyed his reputation in life, they are now driven to destroy his legacy after death.
I believe worse is yet to come.
I think the COPFS will stop legal proceedings against Peter Murrell and the other avenues of criminality. They will shut down Branchform and Broadcroft on the grounds of “not in the public interest.”
If you consider an average of £30 for donations to the Indyref 2 ring fenced fund that would equate to 22,000 members of the Scottish public whose interests have been neutered. Not to mention the rest of us.
Some months later Sturgeon will divorce Murrell. And now the best/worst bit. Swinney will stand down as FM about 6 months before the 2026 Holyrood election and guess who will be reinstalled as leader of the SNP and FM of Scotland?
The cunts will be overjoyed and Nikita Stalin will declare that both votes SNP will guarantee independence – again, when all it does is guarantee dozens of Yoon MSPs.
Whaddya think?
I doubt if many people will be willing to vote for the SNP now, and even less so if Sturgeon was to be its leader. She’s history. If the inquiries are swept under the carpet and the conspirators evade justice, there are going to be a lot of extremely angry people in Scotland who will blame Sturgeon and the SNP for that outcome. I’m sure the conspirators will be named sooner or later and the truth of what’s happened will emerge. They can’t hide the truth forever.
I hope you are right Michael. I really do. However given the years of non progress on Branchform and the very recently re-orchestrated character assassination on Alex Salmond, I can only conclude that my nightmare scenario above is, a distinct possibility.
I mean, why are these cunts doing this? Alex Salmond is dead. Why continue to put the boot into his corpse?
In order to clear the way for Nikita Stalin’s return.
Well I guess you heard it here first.
My apologies, I meant to add this:
Look at that picture the Rev put up on the King and Queen of Cringe.
The one on the left hand side.
Does Nikita Stalin look worried?
Which individual looks like the boss?
To me she bides her time until, the COPFS does what they are instructed to do.
I do see your point. I certainly think it’s likely that the evil woman is being protected, and it’s quite possible that the plan is for her reinstallation. But everyone can see now that the SNP achieved the square root of FA with all the mandates they were given. Everyone can see that they’ve been cheated and made fools of. I just don’t see it working, except inasmuch as making the SNP unelectable will allow Labour to control Holyrood by default. That of course may be the plan!
I guess you heard it here first
Indeed we did.
And when none of it comes to pass, I guess you’ll be back to put your hands up and say “Sorrreeee!”.
Tell us I guess right.
Here’s what actually happens in the land of reality, Zander.
Great politicians of historical import might make comebacks. Once in a lifetime politicians, or once in a century politicians.
Politicians like Alex Salmond, in fact. Great enough that their comeback has to be sabotaged, because their possible comeback is well, possible, and because they are great men of great ability and great influence.
And then there’s Sturgeon. Penny dropped yet?
I agree my dear Hatey. Especially the bit about great men, great ability and great influence.
Unfortunately, Scotland has morphed into a shit country in the last ten years, with a shit Government, a shit civil service, a shit police force, a shit COPFS and a totally shit Main Stream Media.
With that combo now established any and all kinds of shit could happen.
Here’s a question for you Hatey. 10 years ago, did you predict Brexit or the Pandemic? Me neither.
Pound coin dropped yet Hatey?
Nope, puppeteer Marmalade…..?
I don’t think Sturgeon will come back. She’d be publicly humiliated at the ballot box & narcissists despise being humiliated.
She will choose the puppet successor tho unless she is forcefully removed from the SNP. She’s like Thatcher. She doesn’t know where the exit is & won’t ever take it even if you showed her. A permanent plant at Holyrood working in the background against Scotlands independence. She’s had ten long years practice.
I’m not so sure about that , Geri . Your points are well made and I think her ambitions are still for some * high profile * position within one of the Globalist entities , eg U.N , E.U or even – god forbid – NATO . It remains to be seen if the current legal cases she’s embroiled in , and their eventual outcomes ( if there ever are any ” outcomes ” ? ) will make such ambitions unlikely to be realised . If this turns-out to be the case , it wouldn’t be at all surprising if she is re-installed as First Failure of Scotland . After all , we know she absolutely craves the spotlight , being seen to be an ” important ” presence on the Political * Stage * and maybe it’s considered her destruction of the SNP is not yet total and her return will be it’s final nail in the coffin .
However , if she emerges from ” all this ” unscathed , it’s more than probable she’ll be slotted-in to some suitably extravagantly salaried Globalist position . After all , she is 100% in lockstep with every lunatic agenda being promoted by the New World Disorder adherents .
The only part of that with any accuracy (to my mind) was that “…he seemed to crave endless attention…”, but that’s quite normal for people in certain parts of public life, I think. Hardly grounds for condemnation.
Alex Salmond may have been a skilled politician and confident in his abilities, but he never struck me as being someone who sought attention or fame for its own sake. In fact, I suspect he did many good things in private without seeking credit for them at all.
For someone who craves endless attention, look no further than the disgusting, evil, back-stabbing thing that took Alex Salmond’s place and squandered and wrecked everything he’d worked for.
I had that twat Carlos Alba at my door in Aberdeen when he worked for the P+J in the early 90’s.
it was in relation to a letter I wrote to the P+J where I claimed that if Jesus was alive today and living in the North East of Scotland he would be a member of Settler Watch! I had the evidence, it was claimed by more than a few Biblical Scholars that he was a member of the Essenes, the Jewish hardliners who fought against Rome and committed mass suicide at Masada.
a book published then called the Dead Sea Scrolls decoded said that in the Essene Dead Sea Scrolls it says and I paraphrase coz it’s 30 odd years since I read it “Do not allow foreigners to come into your land, they will steal your houses and wealth” anyways Alba wanted to interview me about that letter, he was told to fuck off .
Ahh yes, the old case of guilty until proven innocent, but with no way to be proven innocent in either a criminal or a civil trial. Same/similar names to be found recently decrying the “hounding” of innocent man Huw Edwards. Funnily enough, the numerous reported serious sex offenders from the “woke” wing of the SNP, some of whom are now in prison, haven’t seemed to cause any issues for the people who enabled and promoted them.
No smoke without fire, until there is a huge bonfire with loads of smoke coming from it, then we’ll stare gormlessly into the distance, with dribble running down our chins, claiming that there isn’t a single instance anywhere in the world of something which is happening repeatedly, right in front of us.
Bluntly, I wondering if the continuing enquiries simmering away under the surface are a more pervasive form of punishment than the outcome of a criminal trial might have provided. Those who allegedly conspired against Salmond must walk around every day knowing that their roles are capable of being proven, and that at some point in the future that might happen, in a criminal trial, but without any certainty as to when or whether that will happen. Rather like a particularly elongated Japanese water torture . .
Posthumous book published !
Stu, a fully comprehensive analysis of the state of play with these dirtbag commentators. A small positive to add. Brian Cox on Sunday declared the humanity of Alex Salmond and that had been sadly lacking in the reporting by the MSM. Some balance to the negativity. So many Operations ongoing one of them is going to land. I don’t want to intrude on the grief of the family. But I was so glad a private individual stumped up the cash to get him repatriated. He/She represented the best of Scotland.
None of them, to be frank, are fit to lick dogpiss from a photocopy of a picture of Alex Salmond’s shadow – yes, they’re a shower of shit.
Farquaharson’s piece was appalling. I’ve taken the trouble of writing to his Editor to ask that at such as time as the conspiracy (or conspiracies) are proven will he be sacked?
According to Carlos Alba Salmond committed the heinous act of offering his spoon to woman so that she could taste the ice-cream he was eating. Police Scotland missed a trick in not interviewing him.
Who knows or cares what those insignificant, and yes, madly jealous crud balls think? Salmond was always way out of their class, and well they knew it too!
Bawbags
Thankyou for wading through that excrement Stuart.
I may have a remedy to legally remove some or all of the excremental scribes from whom you have had the misfortune to soil your word processor.
The injustice heaped upon Alex Salmond and for which he mounted a formidable and successful legal defence whilst alive WILL, I can attest in Court, have impacted upon the health of our former First Minister. That may be revisited in law, but IMHO Alex Salmond’s family should be given the privacy and grace to grieve.
However, what can be addressed now, are the venomous lies being peddled for filthy coin by lowlife vultures such as Carlos Alba. A very brief study of Carlos and his assets and income do not appear to add up. It is a fact that he has been party to evaded filing two sets of legal accounts by folding or “phoenixing” heavily regulated entities at Companies House. So there is a black-hole within his regulatory filing requirements (he can be “alleged” to have broken the law already in failing to account).
Whilst his remaining financial entity: “Carlos Alba Media Ltd.,” through which he is, in the “balance of probabilities” likely to funnel the money he whores from defaming the deceased is a prime candidate for someone with a talent for forensic journalism to enjoy a cup of coffee and study thereof?
In a previous career in law enforcement, I witnessed injustice to a horrific degree. It still causes ulcerative pain, such is the abreaction to our legal system being brought into disrepute.
The remedy for injustice I found, was that if a barsteward such as Carlos Alba and the rest of his ilk as narrated above, got off with such disgusting behavior as defaming the dead, then an alternate remedy is to seek monetary penalty for alleged infractions. In case after case, I can attest to vast amounts of funds recovered for the State or third party individuals.
Carlos Alba’s literary contributions are not worth much to decent humanity. But the vile nature of this waste of human skin is such that it would be a service to humanity to see the bas7ard out on the street without his leaky pot in which to piss.
Given the fact Wings Over Scotland is a publicly accessible forum, I would say little more for risk of sub judice… but it is fair and reasonable to leave the link below and recommend a few moments considering how Carlos Alba can have such a lavish lifestyle and highly paid profile, when the basic maths of his situation as filed by and at a statutory body appear to present something quite different.
Also the FACT that the Registrar of Companies House is no longer a REGISTRAR may become relevant to the financial future of Carlos and Ramsay and Farquarson and Le Conte and Novartis Media.
The Companies House Registrar is now a REGULATOR and one with significantly greater powers to deal with “alleged” miscreants than in her earlier legal capacity as a REGISTRAR. It may be that Carlos Alba et al., are nice and decent human beings with a very legitimate set,of statutory accounts. But given Mr Alba’s penchant for defaming the deceased, the least that should occur is an AUDIT and reconciliation of the financial dissonance between balance sheet and real-world personal assets? Focussing on the means of acquisition based upon seemingly little resource and/or prematurely struck-off companies belonging to Mr Carlos Matthew Alba that have conveniently evaded the filing of ANY accounts is certainly something a forensic accountant would relish.
A useful point to ending this reptilian creature’s defamation of a giant of a human being may be found here: link to find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Stuart, I post this reference separately to my previous assertion that Carlos Alba’s accounts show an asset profile that is highly questionable. Especially to a distinguished forensic journalist! BUT you may need to delete this separate post. Even though the information is all public domain, the matter of accidental “doxxing” may require removal. But here is a decent start to getting financially rid of such venomous creatures…
Carlos Alba has many questions he is required to answer…
FAILURE TO DELIVER ACCOUNTS is an offence in law.
I am long out of the legal profession, but have already seen enough that would be sufficient to trigger one of several statutory bodies to investigate the means of affording high value assets and the actual rental or ownership of those assets IN CASE. My point?
Carlos Alba owns over 75% of his company and the accounts are, at best so anaemic that they do not merit a beach hut in Blackpool…
link to find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
My question about this defamer of the dead?
How can his technically INSOLVENT company with negative capital of…
(£2,486)
help him (Carlos Alba) afford a building that is in the public domain as having been sold for…
£552,250
…on the 30th September 2021?
link to scotlis.ros.gov.uk
Backtrack…
link to find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
Just pointing out that for a shyte shoveler such as Carlos Alba, he might consider looking at his own moral compass in the mirror before throwing jobbies all about the place.
There is more than one way to deal with these vermin. My thoughts are that a red-hot forensic journalist would have a field day (and please don’t get me started about Ramsay’s little numbers of Farquarson’s financial fancies).
Alba may be employed elsewhere, have a wife who works, received an inheritance or have downsized from his previous house. It would require a detailed investigation.
I agree with you Andrew. My point is that there is sufficient which is “off” in the public domain to merit some forensic investigation. Indeed, Carlos Alba and his ilk deserve FAIR justice which is a damn sight more than these toxic cretins have given in still dragging the repute of one of our country’s greatest patriots ever, through the sewers. Again and again and again. I say, ENOUGH. Time for a little “restorative” justice Andrew. Proper justice and through the courts. Alex is no longer with us to be able to do this. There IS something that can be done. Of course the law, as it stands, allows vermin like Carlos Alba to defame the dead just hours after they died. BUT, the old cop in me smells the aroma of rodent. The stench in my nostrils from the slime used as ink, oozing poison from a backstabbing quill in the gnarled hands of those knuckle dragging creatures that write their bile, requires proper forensic journalists, followed by honourable law officers to do their duty. It is my hope that Stuart Campbell, a man that has proven his journalistic skills to the envy of every other pathetic gutter-press low-rent scribe, will take up the challenge… to investigate each and every bent scribbler that hasn’t even the decency to let our finest former First Minister’s family have a few days to grieve in peace.
It’s natural to be angry, even outraged by these cowardly smears and lies – yet they are all too nauseatingly predictable.
What we need is the biggest show of strength, a massing of the people, whenever and wherever appropriate as a mark of respect for Scotland’s greatest political leader.
A series of large scale events across the country to regalvanise that support for independence that Salmond’s existence made possible.
The past week has shown that he was respected across the globe both as the man he actually was as well as his political achievements.
They used to say scotland needed a William Wallace or Robert Bruce to take back the nation’s independence.
Even in death, Alex Salmond must be that kind of modern hero.
The British State and its local cronies cannot win the battle to write him out of Scotland’s history or deny his life’s work and purposefrom inspiring this and future generations of Scots.
The decolonization (i.e. independence) process has been played out in many countries. An oppressed people can learn a great deal from this.
Debasing and dehumanizing the colonized is a fundamental aspect, much as we see in the treatment of the authentic leaders of the movement. As is the colonizer’s ‘very solid justice system and government’ which hauds doun the fowk and protects the colonizers interest.
As the decolonization process moves into phase 3, the final phase, an oppressed people really need to know that they will either become liberated or they, their nation and culture, will continue to be exploited and ultimately perish.
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
will either become liberated or they, their nation and culture, will continue to be exploited and ultimately perish
I’m rejecting the passive voice there, Alf.
Liberation, if that’s what you wish to term it, is not something imposed from above. A nation that wants liberated liberates itself. It doesn’t sit about on its fat, flabby erse, greetin and hand-wringing and waiting to be liberated as an altruistic act by some kindly God-like actor.
If we Scots really want to be “liberated”, every democratic lever we need is freely available. All we need is enough Scots to stand for office, a credible, comprehensible policy for them to stand on (plebiscitary election for Indy), majority support among the voting public, and it’s done.
You make it sound like it’s an impossible dream. Yet, with a cadre of no more than a few hundred plausible, persuasive, competent, grounded, men and women of uncompromising integrity, with a program for an Independent Scotland that is worthy of majority support, all the rest of us have to do is put an X in the right place on the ballot.
The months come and the months go, yet with the possible exception of Ash Regan, these men and women of uncompromising integrity and a plan that could deliver Indy don’t seem to exist.
Why is that?
We tried that in 2014. The establishment made sure it was rigged. 6570,000 postal votes, a 20% rise. And it’s never been seen again since. Westminster was calling foul in previous elections when it was at it’s peak of 4%.
Don’t you remember?
It’s hard to remember “6570,000 postal votes” (6+ million votes) when there were only 3.6 million votes total.
Your grasp of numbers (which nobody has bothered to correct before this) is what we’ve come to expect from Indy moonhowlers.
Do moonhowlers even READ what they post?
It’s not as many as a few hundred… It’s only 57…
That after a decade since the 2014 IndyRef and all that has transpired since then, it’s immensely fucking embarrassing that a simple coherent strategy hasn’t been developed and run with by the “leading
mindsegos” of the Indy movement.If Scots that are supportive of returning Scotland to self-governing status can’t pull their heads out their arses and muster the intellect and effort to find just one decent cunt to stand in each of the Westminster constituencies on a simple end the union mandate, then I am afraid we are destined, and arguably deserve to have the utter piss continue to be ripped out of us.
“Why is that?”
Because the British establishment ensures they either can never reach a position of power or, if they do, soon become neutralised as long as they continue playing by “the rules of the game”.
Just look at what the bastards have done to Mr Salmond. They attacked him during all his political life, they destroyed his reputation, they dragged him into a fabricated criminal case and a bunch of conspirators, among which there appears to be some links to MI5, set up a plot with the purpose of sending an innocent man to prison for the rest of his life.
Now, even after his passing, the disgusting establishment vultures continue to beat and bite his memory because the cowards still see him as a threat.
And that is assuming you are ready to believe Mr Salmond died of natural causes in the same way that Mr Robin Cook did, unexpectedly, at 59, also of a heart attack and, apparently, when he was looking at his healthiest.
“If we Scots really want to be “liberated”, every democratic lever we need is freely available”
Where exactly are those “democratic levers”?
For as long as Holyrood remains with the straight jacket of the Scotland Act, there is no democratic lever. For as long as an unelected representative of the crown is gerrymandering the executive power and stealing control of the legislative power from the people of Scotland and handing it to the crown, there is no democratic lever for Scotland.
For as long as MI5 operatives and plants continue to infest our government, political parties and public services and continue to be wrapped around the neck of Scotland’s prosecution service, there is no democratic lever for Scotland.
For as long as we have a UK civil service “working to save the union” while intruding in our own government business, there is no democratic lever for Scotland.
Look at how Yousaf or Swinney were catapulted to the position of FM. Where was that democratic lever?
Look at what happened in 2014. Do you seriously believe Yes ever stood a democratic chance with all the interference and abuse of power from the deep British state? For goodness sake, even the treasury civil servants were given prices for “working to save the union”, despite breaching the civil service code of conduct regarding political impartiality from every possible angle.
If we want a democratic lever, then we need to exit this union first.
Where exactly are those “democratic levers”?
You’re one. Or if you are recused for good practical reasons, there’s somebody very like you in your constituency. She’s one.
As Dan writes, it only needs one in every constituency, although I’m sure a dozen helpers wouldn’t go amiss.
The point is, if organised political Indy really does need starting over again, because the existing politicians all have been found wanting, then where are the next lot of Indy politicians going to come from, if it’s not ordinary Scots who are white-hot for Indy?
The mid-wife doesn’t skelp the baby’s erse and say “Congratulations Mrs Broon, it’s a beautiful, healthy politician”. Politicians are people like us who decide to go into politics to make things happen.
They’re not a different species.
The Tories have crashed and burned. Starmer’s Labour are inevitably going to crash and burn within 5 years. All over Europe new political parties and new politicians are springing up.
The status quo is crumbling. It’s a good time for new ideas, new faces and new energies. It really should be possible for Scots to seize this moment and do this!
Scotland is a sovereign nation.
We entered a treaty. Not a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
We don’t need a political party. We need a convention. Exactly the same as what delivered devolution. A convention of the Estates. Was it ever officially forbidden? A convention that can go out & mingle with the international community & beyond & join UN Liberation groups & forget trying to reason with our jailers. They’ve hee-haw authority over Scotland & her territory & to continue playing that permission pish only legitimises their lies that we need it in the first place.
No harm having a competent & trustworthy political party but it’s really not necessary as the ICJ proved regarding Palestine. We didn’t have a political party in Westminster for devolution either. It was delivered by a convention & various pressure groups.
A ppls right to self determination doesn’t require the other sides permission & it doesn’t have to meet impossible tasks set by them either.
So there goes yer perpetual mantra of “show us yer economic plans” International law says we don’t need to. It’ll be none of their business what an independent country does with its own finances & how they choose to spend them.
Parliament is a complete waste of time as everyone is now discovering. There is no democracy. There are puppets who follow orders or face sanctions. Starved of cash or overthrown/invaded.
Parliaments are overrun by unelected Lobbyists with foreign interests. Politicians are easily corrupted. They either take the backhander & STFU or they’re thrown to the attack dogs (MSM) with a scandal or two that ends their career/marriage/family life or as we seen with Alex, spend copious amounts of money on forever court proceedings.
Seldom a post from you without a wee mention of your favourite wee place, the subject you really care about, far above and beyond Scotland.
The shithole whose leader’s deranged, nihilistic policies have turned it into a sea of rubble from end to end. The people whose sole contribution to the world has been the elevation of cutting their noses off to spite their own faces to an art form, whilst working out a dozen new ways to abuse donkeys.
Think I’m going to be persuaded to use that shithole as an example for my country’s policies? Think again.
But I’m being harsh – you’ve lost another hero yesterday, and just like for your “New Gandhi” a couple of weeks back, your grief won’t be letting you think straight.
Why don’t you sew yourself into a letter box for a month or so – hide your tear-ravaged physog from the world?
It’s what your martyred heroes would have wanted!
The UK media and especially the Scottish media are I think the most loathsome in the world. They put the gutter into gutter press.
Is there a bigger more willing tool of evil than them. They are far more insidious than the politicians and they all sing from the same evil hymn sheet. You don’t get the gig unless you do as Chomsky famously said to a confused Andrew Marr (another total wankstain).
Kirsty Wark, Jackie Bird that beady eyed little cunt Nick Robinson, Neil Mackay, Kenny Fuckfaceson, the posh ponce of belair on and on and on it goes… what a collection of poisonous cunts.
Control of the media as a massive component in maintaining a tyranny. Now more than anytime in my lifetime it is very clear that our politicians and media are all bought and are not serving us, nor even humanity.
They are whores to evil. Presstitutes. They really are.
I don’t despise our corrupt politicians anywhere near as much as them. There is something about them, they are absolutely vile. On the inside and on the outside.
Occasionally I am reminded of it (as I don’t read that shite) but of course the death of Alex has brought them out like a swarm of cockroaches.
But honestly that is an insult to cockroaches everywhere. There is no animal of any description on this earth that is anywhere near as low and despicable as a mainstream media whore. They are the worst. Shit on my shoe.
It’s all been said below, but I have to add my congratulations to you Stu; an excellent piece. These scribblers will one day face their Maker who will ask them just why they should be let in the Pearly gates? As they hang their sorry heads before Him, I imagine the figure of Alex standing there with a guarded smile, making their situation even more tortuous. Alex may rest in peace, but we will not so long as the “Cochr-oaches” of this world still deface the planet.
A-ha, so from your careful spelling of ‘cochr-oaches’ I am guessing that is what put my post above into moderation. Another one for the list. lol.
Pretty telling / amusing that we both used the same word to describe them in consecutive posts. What are the odds…
There is really not a word that does them ‘justice’. I’d have to go biblical.
What we are seeing enacted around the world today is evil and these lowlifes are ‘selling it’, spinning it, marketing it as the opposite.
No wonder they all look like total shit / borderline n0ncebags. Must take a heavy toll on your soul, if they have one.
Same wankers writing their pithy little bitch articles about a great man are the same ones totally silent on gen0cide and ethnic cleansing.
I say it again they are the lowest of the low. Total scum. Worse than the politicians.
Well we now have a suitable epithet courtesy of Madame Marie for the Haters who Hated and continue to Hate Alex Salmond after his passing – Le Contes
Let that moniker stick.
Hi Callum, I like that way of GIRFU ‘em by using the term: “Le Contes.” Hopefully that will stick.
My comment on the mainstream media in Scotland never made it through moderation. It was so full of insults and swear words I have no clue what specifically caused it. It could have been pretty much all of it. lol.
Loathsome.
I hope for their sake that these reporters all actually believe what they are saying, that they all simply have a sufficiently impaired rational faculty which allows them to do so.
If not, then there are no words Beyond evil doesn’t begin to cover it.
You missed Mike Small of Bella: “To eulogise Salmond without reference to his personal behaviour is to belong to a different era in time, when men’s conduct was brushed-over and condoned or ignored. It is not possible in the 21C to continue such commentary with any credibility.”
But perhaps he’s too insignificant to even count as a flea?
Le Contes:
8.. Dani Garavelli
9.. ….?
9 Kirsty Wark
“when men’s conduct was brushed-over and condoned or ignored. It is not possible in the 21C to continue such commentary with any credibility.”
Now they stick a frock on it & allow it into young girls & ladies spaces to leer at them to their hearts content & call it progressive. A cause that eejit fully supports.
He has no credibility. Neither do the perjurers hiding behind a cloak of secrecy to spout shite for life that no one can challenge . They’re so stunning & brave. Not.
Salmond was found not guilty at the highest court in the land. By a judge & jury & by full disclosure of all the facts. He just looks a vindictive, attention seeking dick trying to imply otherwise.
Not nit-picking here , Geri , but Alex was found not guilty DESPITE his legal team being disbarred from presenting all the facts in his defence ; which indicates the ludicrously flimsy nature of the Prosecution’s case against him . This farce should never have reached let alone left the PF’s desk : that it did tells us the entirely political agenda it was intended to serve , ie the political assassination of Mr Salmond & the ultimate goal of destroying the momentum towards Scottish Independence .
Correct.
Well said.
I hope you were being tongue in cheek earlier ruling out the Royals being trivalve ?.
When after all did you last see a Royal autopsy report ? ?
Small by name, small by nature.
Like everyone, I think these writers are despicable and desperate.
What I wonder about is motivation. When Thatcher died there was immediate rejoicing from some, virtual dancing on her grave, but all of that was political – people angry at her political actions and legacy. But politics is rarely mentioned here (beyond a tacit dislike of nationalism and its aims, but even then only from some and importantly some are nationalists themselves). It is all about Salmond’s apparent failings as a human being – but why such emphasis on this? What is it that these people are really motivated by? Is it ultimately simply about them, not Salmond bur what has he done to any of them? Nothing at all as far as I can see.
He was accused of sexual crimes, acquitted, found to have been treated unfairly and with strong hints of stuff being trumped up at the very least, and yet they are sticking the knife in with no holds barred now he is dead. Why?
I’d guess because, even in death, Mr Salmond remains the greatest threat to the union in a way which transcends mere politics. His legacy is to be one of those few, fabled personalities who pass into a legend in the national conciousness around which a nation can unite.
Thing Bruce, Wallace or even (for English unionists) Churchill.
Names which resonate down through the years and the decades, rallying the emotions as much as the intellectual thoughts.
Truly, he being dead yet speaks.
*Think, not “thing”, apologies for my tripewriting.
Stu, you never mentioned maggots. “I once had dinner with someone who knew Alex Massie. He said Massie never stopped looking at his crotch.” Yes, we can all see how it works …
Your contribution to Alex Salmond’s life cannot be understated. You have told the truth around the conspiracy. I listened.
I never lost faith in Alex Salmond, even when the entire apparatus of the state was lined up against him. Orchestrated from Nicola Sturgeon’s office – the one who betrays.
I lost friends,* for posting on social media of my support for Alex Salmond. Unpopular opinion in the passing of time which I knew to be the right one. Because it was the truth.
I believe in Scottish Independence more than ever. Alex Salmond’s life’s work lives in my heart. He was my real life hero.
And I really want to step up the argument now, and refine it, with my friends and colleagues alike. Scotland must become an Independent country.
Thanks to Alex Salmond.
Does anyone have the transcripts from Salmond’s trial that they can make publically available? If not is this something that can be done via this service Criminal proceedings transcripts | Scottish Courts (scotcourts.gov.uk)
Obviously quite costly but perhaps something that if obtained would put to bed a lot of the miss-quoting and lies?
Alex Salmond – was a MacAulish – as are we, but some of us don’t know it yet.
Took me a few seconds, but I got it, and I agree!
Might just be my hearing, but I thought it was MacAulich. (spelling uncertain)
Beautiful rendition of Rowan Tree on youtube, sung by Alex Salmond & Anne Lorne Gillies.
youtu.be/7PVx0Hn2Rqc?feature=shared
If it would help the campaign to clear Alex’s name and bring in money for it, then they could copy a recording on a CD for sale in Scotland.
Copyrights etc. being allowed of course.
Just a bit of an idea from me for what it’s worth…
His name is clear, GM, but yes – maybe whoever owns the recording could produce a CD. Good idea.
A bit about the justly celebrated Anne Lorne Gillies:
link to saltiresociety.org.uk
Please ignore the completely ridiculous last sentence of the above-linked Saltire Society article.
I shed a few tears listening to Anne and Alex, my late father used to sing this song especially at Hogmanay, a time of reflectiveness and remembrance.
That was a delight thank you.
Wow Salmond could sing.
That lassie can really sing, so for him to even be there, he can too. Never knew.
Makes sense, to his masterful communication skills, his voice… it was a song, poetry. He knew how to use it.
What a good man.
Better to be a martyr than a coward, all day long
2014 was a momentarily alarming skip fire in England’s maximum-security, camera-bristling, back yard. The chief cad has now providentially gone to a higher place. Deep State is discretely clapping, while its over-excitable curs can’t help publicly yapping.
Great work Rev. There’s something dreadfully wrong at the heart of Scottish public life. Is the whole purpose to provide cover for and vindication of Nicola?
I know, I know, this is not the central point… but who was the MSP headbutted by Alan Cochrane? I’d never heard this colourful story and a moment or two of Googling is not providing the answer.
Andrew Wilson, in 2000, according to comments on Mark Hirst’s tweet. link to x.com
Jim Murphy was another thug who had to be separated from punching Comfy Pete clean oot his slippers in the voting lobby.
Given what we know now about that smarmy git he probably deserved it.
Thank you, Lynne. I don’t have a Twitter account so I assume that’s why no comments appear beneath the tweet when I look at it – presumably one needs to be logged in.
Sir Tom Hunter – revealed as the private citizens, who is paying to have our beloved hero Alex Salmond – flown back home to Scotland.
We owe him a great thanks. So Thanks from me Sir Tom Hunter.
The story.
Sir Tom Hunter revealed as private donor bringing Alex Salmond’s body home | The National (archive.is)
From the link.
A big turn out on the plane landing in Scotland is a must – with a sea of Saltires waving – what a sight that would be.
“A statement from Alba said: “The private plane which has been chartered to bring Alex Salmond home will leave Ohrid St Paul the Apostle Airport (OHD) at an estimated time of departure of 11:00 hrs (North Macedonia) landing in Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) at an expected time of arrival of 13:45 hrs.
“The carrier is Airline AIR X. The aircraft is an Embraer Legacy 600. The Aircraft registration is 9H-JPC. The Flight number: AXY4769.”
It is understood STV will provide broadcast footage of the plane’s arrival and of the coffin as it comes off the plane. “
Many thanks to Sir Tom Hunter.
Its an absolute travesty Scotlands national treasure, former First Minister, keeper of Scotlands seal & member of the privy council needed a donation in the first instance but that’s for another time & something that must be changed.
Its aways heartbreaking seeing a loved one come home for the last time. My thoughts are with his wife. Safe journey home Alex xx
Apologies if this is a re-post; change.org rename the Queensferry Crossing;
link to change.org
Here are the originally whimsical but now poignant final words of Alex Salmond’s post-referendum book, in both English and Gaelic versions:
« […] In the tenth century, the monks at Deer Abbey in Aberdeenshire, a few miles from Strichen, rounded off their treasured biblical folio in Latin with the following colophon in common Gaelic (i.e. common to Scotland and Ireland). It demonstrates that Buchan wit, as biting as the wind, is rather more than a millenium old. It reads:
« ‘Be it on the conscience of anyone who reads this little book to say a prayer for the soul of the poor wretch who laboured so long in writing it.’
~ Alex Salmond MSP
Strichen, March 2015 »
(‘THE DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE: 100 Days that Changed Scotland Forever’ by Alex Salmond, published by William Collins 2015, pp 262, 263).
_____
« […] Anns an deicheamh linn, aig Abaid Dhèir ann an Siorrachd Obar Dheathain, faisg air Srath Eachainn, chuir na manaich crìoch air an leabhar ionmhainn Laideann aca leis an earrainn seo anns a’ Ghàidhlig choitchinn (a’ Ghàidhlig sgrìobhte a bha cumanta eadar Alba agus Èirinn). Tha na briathran a’ sealltainn gu bheil eirmse Bhuchanach, a tha cho geur ris an lannsa, nas sine na mìle bliadhna a dh’aois. Tha an earrann ag ràdh:
« ‘Gum biodh e air cogais an duine a leughas an leabhar beag seo gun guidh e airson anam an truaghain a bha cho fada ga sgrìobhadh’.
~ Ailig Salmond BPA
Srath Eachainn, Am Màrt 2015 »
(‘MAIRIDH AN DÒCHAS: 100 Latha a dh’Atharraich Alba Gu Bràth’, le Ailig Salmond, air fhoillseachadh le William Collins, 2015, td 291)
The major complaint that Alex was difficult to defend himself against was allowing such a toxic cabal to form inside and on the periphery of his government and then hand over power to them.
Which to my mind begs the question as to why he resigned after 2014 instead of staying to see how life post- Indyref would play out.
folie a deux?
Take one psychotic nutter (Sturgeon) to manipulate & influence the whole crew. (Her clique) It only takes one bad apple.
I watched the Depp trial & the cool expert psychiatrist could’ve been talking about Sturgeon rather than Amber Herd LOL
Master manipulators. They play it well. They like all the things you like, they love the same books, share the same ambitions etc they mirror you & once they get what/where they want to be they lose their shit & they turn the slightest rejection/rebuke into a lifelong ambition to destroy. Probably at the point Salmond was getting fed up of her stalling over Indy while collecting mandates.
If (as you assert) the insignificant Sturgeon can take down a whole Indy movement, perhaps, just perhaps, that indicates the Indy movement wasn’t as strong or as healthy as some think.
If you think Sturgeon is a “psychotic nutter,” and if the “psychotic nutter” fooled Salmond into coronating her as leader, what does that say about Salmond’s judgment?
I never mention the independence movement. They’re stronger than ever & they’re not the SNP. Sorry to disappoint you.
I said Sturgeon was a master manipulator & could easily have influenced Dumbza, Swinney & her clique who were already weak hen pecked individuals to begin with.
Salmond probably didn’t have a lot to do with Sturgeon. She was deputy & had hee-haw powers over anyone in the SNP to “show” Salmond her true colours. He was the boss. Also remember there were no challengers to her taking over as FM. She was voted through parliament unopposed.
A totally different scenario when Sturgeon took over full control & a totally different character emerged. One that was absolutely ruthless according to ex SNP colleagues. A closed shop. Her way or the highway. Her clique was well documented
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely as they say.
She also immediately introduced ‘reforms’ to the party structure & internal democracy which ensured she’d not be removed from power.
Just because Indy is politically homeless right now doesn’t mean it’s going away. It hasn’t for over 300 yrs & won’t because some narcissist has trashed a political party.
So. A unionist pays for Alex to be brought home at the cost of £25000. The Scottish government that Alex led for so long could not find the money.
We would have funded it ourselves in any event,but that is incidental. Many on the opposite side of the Indy debate clearly had a lot of time and respect for Alex .For that I thank them sincerely. Exactly how rotten have the SNP become?
He is ‘apolitical’. Quote.
Hunter was one of the Labour‘s Party’s top 50 donors in 2001, with a donation of £100,000.
Ahead of the Scottish independence referendum, Hunter revealed a website dedicated to providing impartial sources of information related to the issue.
After the referendum, Hunter was adamant about moving on and not focussing on a second referendum, saying in 2015: “We’ve had our say, and we want to get on with our lives.”
Firstly, thanks to Mr Hunter for covering the cost of the flight to bring Alex home.
A decent gesture by a person in a position to drop 25k quickly.
I’m certain that the costs could have also been raised in a crowdfunder, but the short time-frame required to arrange and complexities of repatriation makes that difficult.
Secondly, Mr Hunter is a very wealthy man, and with that position he has the ability to be well cushioned from the harsh realities of the ongoing political turmoil, policies, and economics being enacted by remaining in the Union since the 2014 IndyRef.
Mr Hunter stating “We’ve had our say, and we want to get on with our lives.” is all very well, but I don’t recall him asking me what I thought and be included in the “we”.
There has also been a legitimate democratic mandate generated to return to the question of returning Scotland to self-governance with the EU Ref result.
And before Hatey McHateface aka John Main blurts out his usual anti EU diatribe, it could be that the people of a self-governing Scotland might not opt for full EU membership and instead choose a compromise position of EFTA or the like.
Fair.point..
Having had a look at what the presstitutes have had to say about Alex Salmond, I think I will have to finally accept that even if the truth does come out, these hacks won’t print it. They already know the truth but still print the lies and innuendo.
Mr Salmond will be home on Friday thanks to Tom Hunter. Not a lot we can do out here to mark the occasion other than plant a few trees in his memory and if we end up with a new male eagle name it after him. I am glad the family are having a private funeral then a memorial as there was always the danger of the funeral turning into a three ring circus. RIP.
Thanks to Sir Tom Hunter for displaying utmost respect for a giant of our times. Safe journey Alex and welcome home!
O/T – this Labour govt is turning into a vicious clown show
– on telly lunchtime we had “elvira, mistress of the dark” telling us the budget will be alright because the chancellor has a vagina; what is this vagina, is it magic, is it the magic money tree, the magic vagina tree?
Before the labour got in the business press was running tales of “budget black hole” – this was 12B, but now it has become 22B, or in some places, 40B. But as much dough and as long as it takes for the “eastern war”. Then without catching breath, fucking the pensioners – that 300 was just the right amount to let the auld yins stick on the central heating – then … it just keeps getting worse :
– weight loss injections to get all these fatties back to work
– jobcentre coaches visiting the mental hospitals to get the head-mental back into work; what as ffsake? Neurosurgeons, air traffic controllers, nuke sub captains?
The thing about the money – when the numbers are all over the place, it looks made up, bullshit in fact; the number seems to be getting inflated to justify whatever mad scheme is being presented.
This Labour govt seems to be going hell for leather to make themselves far more hated than the tories ever were; farage could come through the middle, end up as PM. Looks like a plan – hate labour, hate the tories – vote for the super tories. Yay. Victory for democracy.
The things the tory press were going nuts about before the election – VAT on school fees, inheritance tax, various scams – the calculation of carried interest in private equity … I reckon these are all quietly being shelved. But hey, let’s just fuck the poor instead, they don’t employ lobbyists and can’t get me a job post politics; I would challenge anyone to live on universal credit.
“Elvira” is also a bit Cruella de Ville – she is zealous, she is going after people … I just hope when labour gets pumped next time there is still demand for that niche “milf mature”-only fans stuff. She is not much good for aught else.
– maybe the unemployed could all start an only fans? Maybe you get your benefit cut if you don’t upload at least 6 new racy/saucy shots a day. Middle aged blokes in schoolgirls dresses, hair in pig tails, licking lollipops – sounds like the trans community, to be fair. Nae open crotch shots, ankles behind the ear, keep it tasteful.
Eureka moment – here is the solution to anyone harassed by the jobcentre
– claim to be trans; claim the jobcentre is not a safe space; claim to feeling unsafe; claim unrelenting transphobia from the staff; claim you were misgendered, sue, settle for low 6 figures.
trannies are the new master race, the chosen people, the elect – jump on the bandwagon and survive.
Or Elvira will cut your money.
LMAO at only fans.
Another top tip for the Job center – Be a Trans Spud
Just invent a new language & throw a major hissy fit if ppl don’t understand it. Spend hours walking everyone through yer pronouns then simply change them for the next interview. Rinse & repeat.
Oh I don’t know. The red tories are just following on from the blue, and that’s good for London!
£1bn for a London port
£100bn for a London hornby train set
£bn’s for a London sewerage system and £bn’s for the London underground.
Someone has to pay for it!
I know, let’s rape more Scottish assets and charge them excessive amounts of cash to use it! Yeh!
The jocks are so thick they’ll think we’re doing.them a favour ???
Good post.
We could, of course, look at some facts.
The Tories are the party of the old. In opposition, pro-Labour people are forever laughing that soon the Tories will be no more, as the old will die off (just like pro-Indy people in that respect – according to them, the old are all Yoons).
So to expect Labour, or a pro-Indy party, to care too much about the old is simple denial of reality.
Labour spent 14 years importing itself new voters to rub the noses of the right in diversity. Guess what, these new voters are now starting to call the shots, and guess what again, they don’t much care for geriatric white people.
Fair enough I suppose, it’s mutual.
Uncontrolled immigration is already rocketing since the GE. As the EU moves (by popular demand) to Rwanda-style policies, Labour moves in the opposite direction (wildly applauded by some of the usual suspects on here). So, of course, we now have combined push and pull factors. And the increased flow of immigrants are not going to accept high taxation to pay for old, obese, lardy-arsed white folk.
As for the “eastern war”, sure, fighting it has a price. Losing it will have another price. Why don’t you look into that, and come up with some figures for what that price will be? Budget for several Eastern European countries to be under occupation by a country already bending its own economy to around 40% military spending, and under no compunction to not do the same with its new colonies.
Budget for the collapse of the EU into squabbling states, and several millions (tens of millions?) of penniless refugees on the move westwards.
Not going to comment on your “magic vagina tree”. Could be miners reading here. 🙂
Colonisers move ppl. Its what they do to support the mother country. They strip it of its professionals to come work in theirs. A bargain they didn’t have to pay to train them either.
Warmongering also moves ppl. Its what they do to support the mother country as they asset strip its resources & destabilise countries into unlivable rubble. Minus the professionals that’s already fled. Creating a refugee crisis as they are forced to move elsewhere.
When do you think the penny will drop with you, ya thicko!?
The answer is simple. Stop coveting other countries resources – they don’t need the Brits to manage it for then & stop warring/overthrowing governments trying to take other ppls land. Simples.
Well said Geri , an independent Scotland would never declare war on another country we as a people are satisfied with Scotland our homeland.To get our people to vote for ALBA in the next Scottish election we have to find a good understandable and reliable way to persuade our people that the truth is their pensions be it private , company , or state will be safe , safe because our Scottish government will be smart enough to introduce its own Scottish currency so that it is not controlled by england.Once we show our people that an independent Scotland can successfully have its own currency and finance its own state pension and other state benefits they will vote for Scottish independence.This is the big fear amongst those who do not vote or vote for Labour or Conservative , they are prepared to be treated as second class by england if their income in hard times is guaranteed.We in Scotland have a history of hard times.
Hats off to you , you’re playing against a team of them all on your own. What issue is going to get the Scottish public roused enough to stop accepting third best and start seeing the things that would actually improve their lot?
On reflection I don’t know which is worse? The MSM Hacks or Politicians whose comments were obscene!
Having read some of what passes for obituary’s and summations of Mr Alec Salmond’s life the following story comes to mind:
The late, great Mr John Pilger setting out on life, his father, a leading light in the International Trade Union movement asked his young son what path he intended to follow. John informed his dad that he sought a career in journalism. Mr Pilger snr branded these vicious, low-life scum who pretend to Journalists as “The Legion of Liars”
Little has changed since then, if anything matters have deteriorated, with the likes of Murdoch lowering standards of decency decorum or any sense of morality but. above all, honesty. We should be thankful for having superb investigative writers as Stuart Campbell and Craig Murray who are on a par with Pilger. Thank you Gentlemen.
Doug, the people first need to understand the real economic price of the UK ‘union’, and the reality that the latter is a colonial hoax:
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
….. and that independence means decolonization.
When I first read this I thought to myself that SC has earned a years wage doing this one article as I physically could not have stomached reading all that poison. It must have been horrendous.
And yeah it is one guy (almost) versus ‘The Legion of Liars’.
Much appreciated.
Remember when the Guardian was worth reading? I’ll bet those at the Guardian don’t.
link to m.youtube.com
Aye , ‘Comment is free but facts are sacred’ my how times have changed.
I still read it for the better stuff but the comment is free thing is belied by the fact the comments’ section in The Guardian is censored more than any other I know of to the point of ridiculousness.
Re Anthem , yes it’s our “ better together “ dividend . We were given the opportunity by the man of our people himself to break free of our shackles . As he takes the low road home this very day let us always remember that he gave our people the opportunity to vote for independence.
Our people chose to believe the aforementioned above state propagandists working for the British state/ MSM . So “ better together” it is , for all to see now , instead of really listening to “ the man of the people”
So we can all see now the “ union dividend “
Better together for our pensioners now choosing to “ heat or eat in our energy rich country which has poured billions into the London treasury.
“ Better together “ for our young families with children living in poverty and being directed by the British establishment to go to foodbanks
“ Better together “ for our businesses losing overseas valuable exports to the EU
“ Better together “ for our young people starting out in life and contemplating perhaps starting a family without a home of their own and a roof over their head .
“ Better together” the “ con of this century “ on the people of Scotland .
Let us reflect today of all days as he is repatriated to his beloved homeland that he gave his people the opportunity in 2014 , let’ us hope that this “ better together” lesson is remembered and we somehow regain our independence as an everlasting legacy in memory of Alex Salmond which would allow him to rest in peace knowing that his “ life’s work would be complete .
“ a man’s a man for a that “
Couldn’t argue with that.
The more I think about it the more suspicious I am becoming of the timing of Alex’s death.
This is so convenient in so many ways.
I think they feared that Salmond would somehow reach take-off velocity with ALBA at the next Scottish elections.
And they were right to fear it.
The Scottish public used Labour to destroy the SNP at the UK GE but Starmer is so objectionable and odious that his honeymoon period would not last long (in fact it’s already over).
Who were (significant chunks) of the Scottish public going to turn to then? You know who… It was inevitable, Salmond knew, hence the waiting game… just keeping himself in the frame, waiting for the moment.
And he was right. I am certain ALBA would have got enough votes on the list to get him elected and maybe a few others as well. That political beachhead would have been enough…
Can you imagine Alex in parliament opining on the wars in Ukr@ine, P@lestine and Independence… gen0cide & ethnic cleansing.
That is why he is dead IMHO. Too fucking convenient by far, it really is. The timing is everything. They just could not get rid of any other way.
We all saw the beast rear up during stitch-up, the ‘apparatus of state’. As the partner at Levy & McRae said. They are well capable of this.
Remember this was all about stopping him re-entering politics. And that is what he was on the cusp of achieving.
“Can you imagine Alex in parliament opining on the wars in Ukr@ine, P@lestine and Independence… gen0cide & ethnic cleansing”
Sure. He would have immediately seen a smaller, independent, sovereign nation that has been told by its former imperialist coloniser at gunpoint that the imperialist coloniser has changed its mind and now wants to re-occupy its former colony.
The crystal clear lessons for an aspirationally Independent Scotland would have been obvious to him.
But not to you – you’re special.
As for the other shithole you mention, again, there’s a clear lesson for Scotland. Allow sufficiently deranged people to take over and there’s a chance you’ll end up with a country consisting of little more than end-to-end rubble.
And the rest of the world looking on, will virtue-signal sympathy while you bleat about imaginary gen0cide, but simply sit on their hands and wait for you to put your own house in order.
Oh do fuck off with yer propaganda. No one buys it.
& Get your facts straight. ICJ already ruled they’d a case to answer for geno-cide & that ALL countries had to refrain from supplying weapons.
A clear instruction ignored yet again by the habitual breakers of international law.
That’ll only hasten their demise all the faster as there’s already calls to just remove the gen-ocidal maniacs from the UN & from all of Europe altogether. That includes competition. Already a pariah state as countries cut off trade. They don’t need the corrupt ICJ to rule. It already has no hope of recovery. But like a rabid dog it’s going all in to just take five other countries too. God said so. Good luck with that thought. Irn will cut off the canal. Game over.
As for the Nazis – that didn’t take Anglo Americans long to row back on the “whatever it takes” to now do their usual after trashing the place – cut & run like cowards. Women & children is more their thing.
Never mind, they lost territory due to BoJo & Black rock owns what’s left. Where do you think those angry Nazis will make for? They’re gonna be pissed as hell they’ve been duped. & To add insult to injury – no NATO & No EU either – just as predicted they wouldn’t.
Not too late Grandad to get yer coat & go help the Nazis. They may even name a street for you.
Weekend soon, Geri.
Take your coat, and maybe you’ll pull.
Your constant hysterical over exaggeration and hissy frustration has a simple cause – we can see what it is even if you can’t.
“Not too late Grandad to get yer coat & go help the Nazis.”
I am puzzled why Hatey should do that, he (or she) does not seem to have much sympathy for them. Moreover, they are already being helped by Iran (drones etc.), North Korea (ammunition, maybe even soldiers) and allegedly also by China.
Shall I name the 32 NATO countries + Australia, Canada & the USA who are helping out U by pouring in cash, weapons & bad Intel (& they still can’t win) Or is it the usual Western pish that they’re the only ones allowed allies & everyone elses allies are terrorist crankpots? LOL
North Korea is propaganda put out by Z to try get the West to shit itself some more & hand over more money & some nukes this time cause his ‘Victory plan’ was a comedy skit no one was interested in so he’s added a sprinkling of sparkles to see if that helps ramp up the fear.
As if R needs any foreign boots on the ground tho I suppose they could just chalk that up as *military training exercises. They were just minding their own business playing at the border* it works for the US.!
Main, aka Hatey, has every sympathy for the Eastern European Banderas – they’re WHITE! P is at his borders soon marching tae get him! Lions & tigers & bears Oh my! So he should get his coat & join them. They’re fighting the good fight against a baddie intent on taking over a country now owned by Black Rock.
Its only those from ‘that shithole’ – they deserve being burned alive & thrown alive off buildings. They’re the wrong colour. That invading maniac is perfectly fine. If they’d just do as they’re telt & vacate their country then everything would be just fine & dandy. Bastards eh!?
Two conflicting world views. It must be painful being him.
Back on your #1 obsession, eh? Indy can’t be a big enough canvas for a towering, world-beating intellect like yours.
Have you been fitted with your letter box yet?
Mind and be honest and open when they ask you how many slots you want in it – one, two or three!
Geri, that is a bit too unhinged and sometimes too cryptic for me. Hu_mus are famous for throwing people from the roof, are you suddenly against them ? As far as U is concerned, I suppose (by analogy) that in your world uncle Adolf was somehow justified in taking over Austria (and Czechoslovakia and Poland).
The next Scottish GE would have been the first election proper that ALBA had fought in Scotland. The party was just a few weeks old last time and had no chance.
4 years later the SNP, the Tories and Labour are all in tatters. Hated equally by everyone… A perfect breeding ground for a groundswell in support for a new party with a trusted leader…
That scenario was too risky for them…
Or they just got really, really, really lucky, again.
These people ‘make their own luck’.
The philosopher K?ngz? aka Confucius said
«Slander soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive»
Westminster and its grubby milieux fit the existential terrain to perfection.
If the British system and agents do not overtly slit your throat they covertly will knife you in the back, executed with that overbearing sense of cultural superiority that is the signal character of the type.
From Craig Murray:
«Alex vigorously opposed the invasion of Iraq and led campaigns to have Tony Blair impeached by parliament after being proven to have lied over Iraqi WMD, and also campaigned for charges against Bush and Blair at the International Criminal Court. He opposed the devastating bombing of Libya that plunged that country into a chaos from which it has never recovered»
As someone conceived during the «allied liberation of Iraq» for me
Alex Salmond, is a man of honor, may his name live a thousand years.
“vigorously opposed the invasion of Iraq”
“opposed the devastating bombing of Libya”
He was right to do so.
Sadly though, plenty of people now use these examples to justify claiming we should never do anything in opposition to naked aggression.
They are wrong to do so.
It’s not easy to separate the “useful idiots” from those bad actors working to impose either Soviet-style gulags on us, or a Sharia-themed theocracy.
Increasingly, I’m coming to the conclusion it doesn’t matter. Whatever their motivations, they all need to be opposed equally.
After all, neither of these feature as part of our Scottish national culture and history we are all supposedly working to protect and renew through Indy. Neither of them featured even when we were supposedly cowed by WM imperialism and crushed under colonialist oppression. Scotland still managed to be a country where we Scots enjoyed western-style freedoms, including the freedom to practice religion, or to insult it.
So why do so many of the so-called pro-Indy zealots constantly big up the gulag builders and the theocratic medievalists?
I’ll answer. Because Indy is not the end they seek. It’s just a means to the end they really want. And their constant rush to get onto the subjects they really care about gives the game away.
You can follow Alex’s final flight here:
link to flightradar24.com
Great. Thanks.
Thanks. Very sad time.
An Irishman here. I’ve always admired Alex Salmond and was shocked to hear that he had died.
Will a appropriate public funeral event take place?
He certainly deserves one.
There will be a memorial service but the funeral will be private.
Who is accompanying Alex? Does anyone know?
The pilot just drew.a heart on the flightpath north of Aberdeen.
Screenshot for posterity
Landed 13:55
Very solemn day. The huge respect shown by the North Macedonian government and people to Alex Salmond in the repatriation of his body is in stark contrast to disrespect shown by both Brit/Scot Govs and the Brit/Scot media over the past few days. Scotland has a lost a champion and we are grieving at this loss.
Meanwhile over on Scot Goes Pop, James Kelly is celebrating a poll using MRP methodology which predicts a massive resurgence of his beloved SNP at Westminster. 48 MPs and the £1m + in Short Money from the British state that goes with it. How did that work out the last time?
This time they’re already bought and paid for. No need to woo them with free trips to the US of A. They’d be up and running from day one as willing supplicants to the demands of the Permanent State.
What’s the old adage about the definition of insanity and repeating an action and expecting a different outcome?
The boy really is a bit dim.
I thought he’d defected to Alba?
I’d say the chances of a resurgence to the SNP are slim to nil. Wishful thinking. They’re leaderless & they did hee-haw the last time they took up seats.
Indy may have lost a great leader. We haven’t lost our minds. It’d be wall to wall LGBTQWERTYS2++++ & nothing else.
They won’t be forgiven for not digging deep too at the first sign of a crisis.
48 SNP MPs sitting at Westminster in a future election must be the most pointless exercise imaginable. This is not standing up for Scotland but again bending a knee to Westminster sovereignty whilst taking the English shilling. Pathetic.
Amazing Heart over Alex Salmond home
The Boss is home.
Landed 13:55
RIP
Back wi his ain folk. Welcome home boss.
I am advised that Alex Salmond body has just arrived at Aberdeen airport.
To all who try to diminish Alex,let me say this
Yes,the man is dead, but at the same time the legend was born. All your torrid scribblings will never change that fact. He is immortal now, In every future endeavour we make for Indy he will be leading in our minds eye, as it was and is, his rightful place. We will be stronger. Thank you Alex.
For Wallace, For Bruce, For Salmond, Onwards to Victory!
Well said, Bob…
Bob Marley: Legend: Get Up Stand Up:
“Most people think
Great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now a you see the light
You stand up for your right
Jah!..
Get up, stand up (get up, stand up)
Don’t give up the fight (life is your right)…”:
link to tiny.cc;
A couple of lines from a Gordon Menzies poem, Scotland Owns Me, have been in my head today, “Aye, Scotland owns me, heart and hand and head
And the sovereign soil of Scotland can claim me when I’m dead” Welcome home, Alex.
Quite a contrast between the state military send-off in North Macedonia (thank you to them) and the inglorious arrival in Scotland.
You would have thought Swinney’s mankit wee gang might have made an effort. But then again, naw, coudna e’en organise a plane nivver mynd a few Scots sodjers.
An apt illustration as to which of the two countries is a colony; the latter a calcified place where potential national liberators must be rendered inconspicuous and unrecognized, never glorified.
Alf, for historical reasons, I certainly wouldn’t want the Black Watch.
Maybe there was a text from Sir Keir to Sir Tom –
Tom can u sort this before it grows legs – there’s a peerage in it for you.
Alf,
they show their true colours, how pathetic!
Agreed Alf but what we must factor in. is the wishes of the family. There will be a memorial service for the public to show their respect. We want to go to that memorial service but I have a feeling it will be oversubscribed many times over. Well done to the Yes bikers in providing an escort to the funeral cortege. I was half hoping Dan a biker would be there.
The SNP have tarnished themselves forever IMHO. Pretending Alex’s death and repatriation is not happening. So petty, spiteful and resentful; no generosity or respect. Can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge any of his many, many achievements. Just contrast the North Macedonians.
I hope the SNP’s behaviour is never forgotten.
Now that Mr Salmond has arrived safely home, it’s challenging to imagine what the political pygmies of our devolved administration who have attempted (I’d suggest successfully) to destroy his SNP could have done to mark his homecoming.
Would anyone have really wanted to see Ms Sturgeon or Mr Swiney looking grave and serious, wearing black armbands as they stood waiting on the tarmac.
Equally I doubt not that there will be oprobium heaped on them for not turning out to “show respect” to the body of the man whom in life they attempted to destroy.
All in all it’s maybe best they just kept out the way as the Saltire draped coffin was piped back to the soil of the land he loved and served.
A true account…
Much ado about Alex: I was standing at the bar of the Kilcreggan Hotel, alone, on a whimsical trip over on the Gourock Ferry. A bottle of zero-alcohol beer could be heard fizzling in my tall glass, it was so quiet.
The barman who said nothing as he served me was staring blankly at nothingness as he absently polished a tumbler. The squeaking of damp cloth on glass accentuated the empty reading room acoustic as I opened Alex Salmond’s The Dream Shall Never Die and continued to read…
I am careful about what I am seen to read in a pub. There had been an irritating incident in Tennent’s Bar back in Glasgow when I was reading Mein Kampf. “What the hell are you reading that for?” I was asked. I was annoyed by this rudeness and claimed I was reading it because I wanted to be a Nazi Stormtrooper when I grew up, what did he want to be? Eventually, I calmed the halfwit down by agreeing it was indeed badly written, full of obscure German names with which Hitler hoped to aggrandise himself by association, vile expansionism and unabashed racist rants. I was reading it simply because I hadn’t.
The door of the Kilcreggan Hotel swung ajar and a tall thin man, almost dapper, swung in with it. The silent barman placed a pint of lager on the counter. The tweedy dandy slid over to me as I closed the book and put it down on the counter.
“Good afternoon,” was the last civil thing the newcomer said as the cover photo of Alex loomed up at him.
“I hate that man,” he shouted. He thumped the book with his suddenly clenched fist. “I hate that man!!” Thumped it again. “I hate!” Thump, thump. “That man!”
I looked at the barman. He polished the tumbler, staring into nothingness. Squeak, slowly squeak went the damp cloth. Squeak. Squeak. Polish. Squeak. No help there.
I asked the gentleman to desist, but he persisted until I insisted he remove himself forthwith and hate Mr Salmond elsewhere. He slugged back his beer, grabbed the door open with another venomous “I hate! That! Man!”.
He stepped outside and slammed the door, but it wouldn’t slam because the anti-slam spring was too strong. His face appeared again, now twisted with frustration and running with angry tears as he tried to shove it shut – every failed push accompanied by I, hate, that.. but he was a broken reed, and he failed away to himself invisibly outside.
I looked at the barman. He was still staring into nothingness, polishing the same glass, the slow rhythmic squeak now the only sound in the emptiness of the indifferent air.
I remember being in Princes Street Gardens on the first march for independence which I attended. Mr Salmond spoke then and pointed at the Saltires in the sky from the aircraft overhead. It was a glorious day. As I left I came across a man talking to no-one in particular in a very loud voice and he said , ‘ That man would never be allowed in my golf club’. I did suggest to him that that man wouldn’t want to be a member of his golf club and he and his puce face snorted off.
Seen over Edinburgh’s Old Town on 8th June, 2013. I know it’s a bit indistinct, but do you see what I see?
Does it say “Yes”?
In a strange way it is a blessing that Nicola’s pygmies have no intention of pursuing independence. Can you imagine Swinney Sturgeon and the mob of cats negotiating anything.
They would having us staying in the pound, following london, taking on their debt letting them have the electricity and keeping the rusty nuclear subs.
Thet are beyond totally useless.
Give thanks for their downfall.
I also see on talking up scotland the snp is only one point ahead of the tories.
Some fall from grace for Nicolas continuity team
I have to say that Mr Salmond’s return to Scotland was a tawdry affair. Grateful thanks. to Macedonia for treating Alec as the statesman he was, worthy of dignity and respect. Watched the homecoming on bbc – it was shameful and disgusting, just as you would expect. Alec was described by the vicious hack as “controversial”, while the rest of us mourn with both grace and gratitude. The arrival itself was shown live on the net, rather than any bbc main channel, while the camera work looked like the efforts of a brain-dead buffoon. Rest In Peace Sir. You deserve so much more!
The highest-level respectful behaviour of the Macedonians was effectively recognition of a Scottish state and statesman.
Some Scots on the other hand seem unable to recognise themselves.
However, such a precedent suggests international recognition would not be that much of a problem.
FFS get signing now – its the least folk can do – ignore this if you’ve already signed it.
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I was thinking about setting this exact campaign up
Well done Dave for beating me to it
It’s exactly what should be done
Only 1000 signed since yesterday it seems. Where are they all? Get sharing…
Seen a few comments on twitter like, I’ve never like Alex Salmond but..
Then they start comparing him to the useless ones we have now.
Are they finally realising what a loss he is?
Saw the Union rep from Grangemouth saying, Labour has let us down.
Did they seriously expect anything else?
Alex saved Grangemouth TWICE
Labour never had any intention of doing so.
Are the wakening up?
“Why do we always wait too long”?
Welcome HOME Alex Salmond a TRUE son of Scotland , Thank you Tom Hunter and the North Macedonian People for showing RESPECT to a GIANT Scotsman
Alex Salmond’s cortege – the Yes Bikers and a huge convoy of Yessers and their cars escort Salmond home.
Carlo in Zamboland (@TheFrogmeister): “Alex on the Ellon bye pass for the last time. He built that road which made it possible for the YES bikers and a huge convoy of good people to take him home. I’m not going to lie, I was greeting like a wean” | nitter.poast.org
The Scottish Resistance Group – to hold a vigil in Glasgow for Alex Salmond – on St Andrew’s Day (30th of November) in Glasgow at the top of Buchanan street on the steps.
Come along all welcome.
Vigil to be held for Alex Salmond on St Andrew’s Day | The National (archive.is)
The Scottish Resistance | Facebook
Powerful stuff Rev. Thank God there is someone like you to defend the reputation of this great man and expose the slime that would tarnish his name.
Some folk are angry that Alex never got the red carpet treatment at both ends of his flight today.
Yet he actually received so much more!
He was welcomed home, not by polite political protocol, but by ordinary everyday Scottish People. Those that he fought relentlessly for, right up to his dying day.
Think of him when you stand at the chemist counter with your prescription, wave your kids off to university, cross the Queensferry Crossing, use the Borders railway, bypass Aberdeen city, find the odd bit of duel carriageway north of Perth, get on the bus free as an OAP….etc, etc.
Alex looked out for ALL of us when he was First Minister. It was only right that the Scottish People, who truly appreciated his positive influence on our lives, were the ones to welcome him home for the final time.
I always thought of Alex as a metaphorical stick of rock. Tough, straight as a die & cut him through the middle & you would see SCOTLAND written in there.
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100%
I think the YES bikers was a fitting tribute.
Its a somber affair & I’m glad there wasn’t bells & whistles because there’ll be plenty of time for that later.
The media would’ve only turned it into a circus & given them writing fodder for days on end leading up to his funeral about how awful the angry mob of the great unwashed were.
Yesterday was for his wife & loved ones to welcome him home in peace & silence without the fake & twisted incidents the media would absolutely stir up if thousands of people had turned up.
If there is something up there in the afterlife he’ll know Scotland is heartbroken at his passing.
Well said.
can’t help myself,lol
I noticed when it’s sunny outside and the sun is bright and beating down,you very rarely see a slug…but when it’s dark and gloomy and the and the rain is pouring down they can be be seen everywhere,…leaving their slimy trail behind them……..they’re only doing what slug’s do…it’s they’re nature!
answer,s. (in my opinion)
Why must Alex Salmond’s reputation be smeared,and if possible (destroyed)
There has been a slow progression towards an independent Scotland for decades,even before Alex appeared on the scene…he speeded up that process.
(and scared the shit out of …the owner’s)
(it’s about land and it’s about “trillions” …over decade’s ..
not GDP or the pound or Dr who….ffs.
I’s basically about the owner’s hanging on to their property……..and their property includes You!
Their answer…your in the process of being replaced
Your solution…,
Get a lot smarter…as quick as u can…division is the biggest threat ,it’s top of their playbook, and it’s working!
About Alex Salmond’s mistakes…..they’re not really mistakes….he would know what he was up against more tha anyone,…he had to gamble,…more than once.
(look at what he was depending on for allies).
And lastly I,ve not mentioned the rising preference in the Uk for a Republic and the end of monarchy, hidden of course…….they stand to lose so much …that’s why it’s so nasty….
Don’t be nasty (if you can help it)…tara…
You’re defo onto something.
People who won’t work and won’t fight are as useless in the school playground, to their employers as adults, and to their country, as they are ultimately to themselves.
That’s how it is in nature – the weak go under – and that’s how it is in politics and economics too. Darwinian.
You mention the rubber boats. Think about what one of the guys on these boats has been through, starting in Sudan say, and making his way to the white cliffs of Dover.
I know I wouldn’t have the balls to make that journey, on foot, mostly broke, with only the clothes on my back. Could you do it?
Once these guys are here, do you really think they care what some flabby-arsed penpushers think? Do you really think they will change their intentions on the finger-wagging whims of those same softies?
Naw.
As for the elites in this country. Just like always, they need fighters to defend the status quo. If they can’t find them locally, they’ll buy them in. Just like always throughout history.
This was always predictable before it had hardly started. It’s all self-evident now, if you care to open your eyes. The ultimate end point is bloody obvious too.
People won’t fight for Colonisers that do not benefit them in anyway, shape or form. Have those elites pick up a weapon & stand at post if they’re that way inclined.
They won’t & neither will anyone else with any sense. Hence the low sign up.
You can thank the USA, world police, for that.
Why should ppl sacrifice themselves for uncle Sam interfering in things that’s fuck all to do with them? Like a spoiled brat having an episode because they can’t compete in the real world so have to look around to pick a fight. Got to feed the beast.
A perpetual breaker of international law & illegal invasion too & the untold human cost & the horrors they’ve witnessed & if they’re lucky enough to make it back alive with on two whole legs they’re thrown on the scrap heap & told to stop bothering them & stop littering the streets. Yer deemed fit for work. Go get a job or fuck off to a food bank.
not the most appropriate song,…but has meaning to me,and Stu hasn’t banned me yet,..and there seems to be nobody else here,…so WTF….go.
httpswww.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLV_hSj_uE
that might work…bin so long…,
link to youtube.com
The Spanish Armada,
the nazi invasion of Britain and the battle of Britain,
Can’t stop rubber dinghy’s…
think obout it….why?
Glasgow City centre three times illegai,before granted citizenship.
Why?
Think about it!
Or…don’t bother your arse, and fade away,…see there’s much more to this Scottish Independence thing than just you and your Ego…(tartan clad ego) I will say,
It’s survival now, not scotsmanship…
what did u all expect after thar no vote?
Have a nice day…lol
Don’t know if you’ve depressed me or inspired me or a bit of both.
Brilliant article, Rev.
Well said sir You can follow everything back to Mrs Fraudster front door
We can now add Anna Burnside to the roll of dishonour…
Well said
You are absolutely spot on with everything wrote on here, this is my first time being on your site and I look forward to reading more as the evening goes on.
On reflection our movement to has took a substantial hit these past few years, I have been inactive for roughly 5 years due to Brexit drivel. So forgive me if I’m trying my best to catch up.
I may have been inactive politically for 5 years but I am still Pro-Independence, the above articles have just made me even more determined to gain independence.
I am first and foremost Pro-Independence, the party politics comes second for me.
I used to be an SNP member, I resigned said membership when Humza took on the role of leader.
I then decided to join Alba as I was so sick of the incompetence of the SNP leadership.
Mandate After Mandate = Squandered.
Promise After Promise = Broken.
Independence = Back Burner.
Coalition With The Greens = Disaster.
Trans Issues & Self Identification = No Way I Could
Support In Good Faith Any Longer.
I say we as a movement need to come together, the truth will out in regards to the wrongs committed against Alex Salmond.
We need to remobilise our movement in the run up to the 2026 Scottish Elections. Use that as our driving force to get 100,000 back on the streets. Get the word our there Independence is coming.
The consensus going into those elections must be all pro independence parties put forward a manifesto but at the heart say a vote for the party (Parties) is a vote for a pro independence majority to begin independence negotiations with London, we must also install tactical voting and not bid against one another.
They haven’t broke us, so lets show them they haven’t.
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Thank you for writing this, Stu. I’ve found it very upsetting to see such headlines so soon after losing Alex. God only knows how his family must feel. These parasitic “journalists” disgust me.
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Love this “None of them, to be frank, are fit to lick dogpiss from a photocopy of a picture of Alex Salmond’s shadow