The Lion’s Den
Just a couple of hours now.
From 12.30 this afternoon, Alex Salmond will attempt to tell the people of Scotland the truth about what happened to him in the last two years – a grave injustice which saw an innocent man have his reputation dragged through the gutter, be placed under incredible personal stress, be left greatly impoverished by proving his innocence, and then have the jury’s verdict endlessly traduced by the media and a gang of criminal conspirators protected from the consequences of their lies by lifelong anonymity.
His job will be a difficult one. Every single person in the room will be bitterly hostile to him – the four Unionist committee members because he’s Alex Salmond, and the others because he represents a deadly threat to the First Minister.
The inquiry’s convener – a woman sacked by Salmond years ago – will attempt to prevent him from presenting large swathes of evidence, despite having made him swear to tell “the whole truth”. The SNP members will try to run down the four-hour session with questions designed to only deflect from the real issue – the actions and behaviour of the Scottish Government. Andy Wightman will probably just cry.
We’ll be extremely surprised if there aren’t some attempts to slyly re-try Mr Salmond and paint him as a guilty man who cheated justice, and to drag up salacious details of the allegations in an effort to smear him in front of the cameras.
We believe Alex Salmond will be more than equal to the task.
You can watch the evidence session in a variety of ways:
– streamed live on Scottish Parliament TV
– broadcast and streamed on BBC Parliament (Freeview channel 232, Sky 504)
– broadcast and streamed on Sky News (Freeview channel 233, Sky 501)
(we would be surprised if this coverage was uninterrupted)
– on Scotland Speaks
Let justice be done. It is long overdue.
LET JUSTICE BE DONE AND SEEN TO BE DONE!
Good luck Alex.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
? Mark Twain
I hope the Scottish Parliament video player doesnt jump all over the shop today like usual!
Thank you for the viewing links. Difficult to find elsewhere with a comment on another blog asking for links was told, “It’s behind closed doors”.
Let justice be done indeed. The very best of luck to you Alex.
Is Scotland a banana republic? It is certainly naive and unsophisticated.
Look how good the UK Government does corruption. They do it effortlessly. They are so cool.
Scotland should learn from Priti Patel and from the whole Johnson cabinet.
First 15 minutes (and every 15 afterwards) will be Fabiani reminding Everyone of limited scope given redactions. Cue “Strike that!” Repeated Loud and often
My thoughts and good wishes are with Alex Salmond today! may his testimony give them all what they deserve! Good luck Alex we stand with you!
Sturgeon’s on-going attempts to undermine the rule of law and destabilise trust and belief in the trial by jury system, which she has done repeatedly on live television and elsewhere, prove that she is not a fit and proper person for public office.
It really is that simple.
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Or give answers in parliament such as “To the very best of my knowledge, I do not think that that happened.” when questioned about a meeting you previously could not recall even happened.
I hope justice will prevail, but not getting my hopes up.
Every Scottish newspaper headline is anti Alex and sympathetic to St Nic. That tells us all we need to know.
It is akin to Daniel in the lion’s den, but he has truth on his side. An honourable man.
We’re rooting for you Alex.
The time is now.
Let Alex Salmond call out the vile corruption that sits at the heart of this rotten Scottish Government.
Our cause, or right to a fair, just and honest society is our right.
I applaud utterly Alex Salmond and all those who have supported the cause of decency. I for one wish him all the very very best as the world watches him address the shabby enquiry committee which has, save for some exceptions, tried every which way to restrict exposure of the rot at the heart of our government.
And now the world watches.
Praying for integrity and decency from all members of the committee.
You’re right, of course, that the inquiry will do what they can to stymie the evidence (although I actually have more faith in the unionists). But I still think what he presents will be enough to topple the conspirators. We finally have the media in London interested, which I’m sure NS was hoping could be avoided. Will the repercussions be enough to save the SNP from the woko harem crowd? We shall see…
Bon courage à notre ami.
Allez!
Judging by Twitter ( i know) there is no appetite for Sturgeon resigning.
Will that remain should some gruesome truths arise today and over next week?
Mr Murrell hasnt been seen much lately eh..still at the shops?
Someone used a chess analogy the other day, with Alex Salmond thinking three moves ahead. They’d probably do well not to try and draw him into a long game. Feels like checkmate is not far off.
Good luck Alex. We all know you can run rings around the very best of them. You’re the smarter, better person. However, I see nasty Nicola and her criminal cabal pulling out all the stops and launching hurdle after hurdle at you. I’m a great believer of karma and believing the truth will out. You will get your justice Sir, one way or another and we have your back.
Honestly don’t know how this is going to turn out. Genuinely nervous and worried for Alex Salmond.
The newspaper headlines for the next few day are going to be horrendous I fear.
Whats most bizzare is that he is the victim of this botched inquiry, yet he will be treated with the most disdain out of all of those who have appeared.
Wishing Mr Salmond the best of luck. For some reason I think he’ll need it.
The very best of luck to you Mr Salmond. I have no doubt they will try and stymie you at every turn, but I don’t think any of them are really up to the task.
I think Alex will be there with his own plan, and if it goes as we suspect it might I don’t think that will be the end of it. After all he is a master tactician so never write him off. Maybe next week after the FM has had her say, he might have more to say on his behalf.
I feel for Alex and his wife. What they have been put through is absolutely hellish. Truth will out now. Too many MSM bods on the story now.
The most accomplished Scottish parliamentarian of his generation and he will wipe the floor with them.
I have confidence in Jackie Baillie to ask the right questions in a measured and calm way.
4-hours is a long time for lightweights like Wightman to keep their nerve. Salmond has done it before, many times.
Every major UK paper is watching and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was headline on BBC News tonight….not BBC Scotland, of course….that will be school exam results or the weather.
@Rev Stu
Slightly O/T, but was just wondering if you know what this “big news” coming in the next few weeks @jeggit is referring to in his recent posts is all about?
(insert stroking chin emoji)
link to twitter.com
As is not on trial.
AS is not on trial.
AS is not on trial.
But Scotland is.
Those committee members are representing the nation and there will be a global audience.
They had better perform as the country expects.
If certain members of the committee decide to distract, deflect, and ‘fillibuster’, that will be noted and will be interpreted as a conscious attempt to PREVENT ‘justice’ being done.
If the inquiry is a genuine attempt to understand what went wrong and why, party allegiances should not come into play. If they do, it will be an insult to our attempts to build a modern progressive independent state.
The Scottish political system is now under scrutiny. Good may come of this.
But I fear that the opposite may also be true and we will become a laughing stock.
At least the committee members will be able to sustain themselves on the plentiful supply of bananas available.
link to tns2019.org
The most accomplished Scottish parliamentarian of his generation and he will wipe the floor with them.
I have confidence in the MSP for Dumbarton to ask the right questions in a measured and calm way.
4-hours is a long time for the intellectual lightweights to keep their nerve. Salmond has done it before, many times.
Every major UK paper is watching and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was headline on BBC News tonight….not BBC Scotland, of course….that will be school exam results or the weather.
F?at j?stitia ruat cælum
In its current form the SNP is absolutely finished.
The independence movement is not however finished. Never again should we allow one party, one corrupt cabal to seize power. Our movement will see to that.
The wind is with us. The time is now. A new and reinvigorated movement is standing ready to move. Honest and true candidates are preparing to stand forward to replace those utterly corrupt or too complacent to do anything rather than stand idly by.
Sturgeon and the cabal must go, and go now. There is an election and independence to be won. Let no one make any mistake about that.
‘We are sorry, but due to technical issues we are unable to broadcast Mr. Salmond’s appearance before the committee.’
Private citizen Alex Salmond, at his own expense, will attempt to do the job that the Scottish people pay their parliament to do.
However, thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money will have been spent by the SNP government to train the SNP committee convener and the SNP committee members (plus Andy Wightman) to block this democratic process of the Scottish parliament.
Was Salmond’s full unredacted evidence released?
Thanks Wings for the Links.
That’s me showered and shaved, and to calm my nerves I’ve spent the last hour on YouTube watching Jacqueline du Pre [cellist] playing Schubert’s Trout Quintet where the Trout doesn’t take the Bait and teases the fisherman and his hook. The trout wins and gaily swims upstream unharmed.!
Here’s to Alex today , We’re with you all the way .
#IstandwithAlexSalmond
And special thanks especially to Rev Stuart Campbell , Craig Murray and all the other bloggers for their honesty and integrity and for believing in Alex .
For Alex
It is the lion’s den.
Alex Salmond has been very courageous and supremely dignified from the start of his horrific ordeal to the present day.
I cant see him changing now. Courage comes from conviction, from speaking the truth.
(My prediction today is for Fabiani to be particularly loathsome, from farce to fangs.)
I am not a believer, but I am going to try it today and pray the committee has a sense of decency. I don’t feel the opposition will be too hostile towards AS, it is NS who is under scrutiny more than AS.
“I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.”
? Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
David Lyon says:
26 February, 2021 at 11:32 am
Was Salmond’s full unredacted evidence released?
…but not the fearless committee.
‘Mr MacAskill told Sky News he thought individuals at the Crown Office had “acted inappropriately” during the saga, and said “lines had been crossed” by the prosecution service into political matters.’
This is all we need to know and understand. This is the root cause of this melt-down. A failure by the Crown Office – not the first, by a long way.
Scotland has been let-down by those it trusts to protect us.
The Grauniad today, referring to those “brave women”. Remarkable how the establishment still portray an innocent man as guilty and don’t seem bothered by appalling corruption at the highest level.
The science denying green wokist Lorna Sclater on Sky News spouting some right pish at the moment.
I like to believe that the truth will be enough but I know it isn’t always so. However a jury realised the truth, so I’m hoping this is televised enough for the country to learn the truth. Sturgeon is an utter bully . I cannot find the interview but in 2014/15 she was asked if she thought Mr Salmond would try to interfere with her Governance because he had been so centre stage and her response was
‘Alex would never do anything to hurt me’
It MUST hurt Mr Salmomd that a woman who had so much trust in his behaviour towards her would be so dreadfully betrayed by him. More than anything, I wish him well. this must be a terrible strain on him.
I think everyone should be reminded of what Sturgeon said about Mr Salmond in September 2014.
“Alex Salmond’s achievements as SNP leader and Scotland’s First Minister are second to none.
“He led the SNP into government and has given our country a renewed self confidence.
“Through policies such as the council tax freeze, free prescriptions and the scrapping of tuition fees, he has made a real difference for hundreds of thousands of Scots.
“And yesterday he inspired 1.6 million of our fellow citizens to vote Yes to independence.
“The personal debt of gratitude I owe Alex is immeasurable. He has been my friend, mentor and colleague for more than 20 years. Quite simply, I would not have been able to do what I have in politics without his constant advice, guidance and support through all these years.”
– NICOLA STURGEON MSP
Last updated Tue 23 Sep 2014
People must remember that however well Mr Salmond manages this afternoon, it does NOT alter the fact that he is an innocent man who has been traduced by a harridan
I think the majority of the ‘inquiry’ members will simply pack the goalmouth-oh and that includes the referee. The fix has already gone in multiple times-they don’t need to score a goal ,simply to stop Mr Salmond from ‘nodding one in’.
I don’t think he has a celluloid cat-in-hell’s chance, but I hope without much confidence that he gets whatever passes for justice in Scotland these days
Welcome to Indy
Alex good luck.
There is not much to say but good luck Alex, there are a good many people supporting you today and in the hope that you will return to public life in the future.
Nicola Sturgeon is the focus of this inquiry – as long as a couple of the committee stick to that principle then all shall be well.
Anyone with half a brain can work out what they despots are trying to hide. We see you – the emperor has no clothes.
Good luck to Alex. You’re a good man.
Anyone else feeling a bit sick? ?
Lorna Slater (green) and Daniel Johnson (SLab) on Sky still promoting the idea that AS might be not guilty but he is bad anyway. Shocking.
Alaisdair Adam ( Na h-Eileanan an Iar) and Stuart MacMillan (Greenock and Inverclyde) are the two SNP MSPs standing for re-election.
Just to let you know – in case they let us down.
@Caroline Wilson
He faced a judge and jury and was acquitted. The Committee know we are watching and will judge them.
But yes, I still feel for him – but remember it is AS, and he knows how useless Fabiani is, he sacked her after all!
A man’s a man for a’ that. We’re with you Alex, a true patriot. Best wishes today … and hoping for a much brighter future for you, and Scotland ???????
” For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Like others I’m wary of expecting too much from this afternoon , just hoping Alex is allowed to say enough to administer the coup de grace to this travesty of an administration , put the record straight , clear-out the dross and maybe then we can refocus all our energies on the only goal worth striving for , the Independence of our nation .
Best wishes big yin , take them OOT
Alex the Iceberg is about to come into full view for the Titan ‘Nic’ and its too late to change course now folks.
I can see the Parliament TV livestream being overloaded. Still, we’ll get edited highlights on the news tonight. They’ll no doubt be interesting…
He is going into the vipers nest and is already denied the ability to tell the whole truth with these redactions that conceals the real culprits. The farce continues!!!! I hope he can shed some daylight on the darks arts of NS and her inner circle. But he’s hamstrung on what he can say . So all I can do is say that the people who believe in truth, justice and integrity are right behind him.
As for NS she should rot in hell along with her co-conspirators
McLaurin @ 11:07
That quote is frequently used by Judge Judy Sheindlin.
If only she could replace Fibby Annie.
If the gadgie Cole Hamilton starts gan on aboot quines being harassed and failures to help them it’ll mak yi boak.
Cole Hamilton kens a’ aboot fit it feels like tae harass quines.
I can’t agree with the comment that everyone on the committee will be against Alex , the planted SNP nodding heads yes that is obvious they are there to deflect attention away from Nicola Sturgeon and her government , well we all know her government fkd up that’s not in question and it’s cost all of us over half a million quid to find out they fkd up despite attempts to block the information that’s had to be extracted from the people who know , they are still attempting to hide all the information they know exists .
I believe the prize of Nicola Sturgeons head will overcome any dislike of Alex I believe the plan will be to give Alex every opportunity to put the boot in , her downfall kills 3 birds with one Stone
1 bring Sturgeon down and Indy takes a fatal hit
2 finally make sure Alex doesn’t return because of his long association with the SNP guilt by association
3 make sure the two above are linked together 1-2 making highly unlikely to believe the SNP and any Independence movement are fit to run a country ,
This whole Pantomime whatever the outcome is not going to be a guaranteed selling point for Independence not just this year but possibly years to come , I might be prejudiced in Alex’s favour but I place all this fiasco at Nicola Sturgeons feet she owns the whole shit show . Happy Nicola ?
“Alex Salmond will attempt to tell the people of Scotland the truth about what happened to him in the last two years”
It is not just two years, Stu. These scum of the earth have been playing dirty against him since at least 2017. That is over 3 years ago. Let’s not give these cockroaches any leeway nor decrease the torment and grief they put this man through for the only sins of being a good politician and having Scotland’s interests at heart.
“Whatever comes out of these gates we’ve got a better chance of survival if we work together”...
Have to hand it to Mr Salmond, he’s prepared to go out there on his own, in the most hostile environment of his life – when Gladiator was team-handed and had warriors on either side of him to back him up.
But then, Mr Salmond has the power of truth, and right, on his side – that’s the man for Scotland!
Its a two-for-the-price-of-one for the unionists
Damaging Salmond
While damaging Sturgeon for damaging Salmond
We Scots owe such a debt of gratitude to Alex. I hope and believe that my thanks, good wishes and positive energy can travel across the seas and help him to get through this part of the nightmare. Truth, honour and honesty will prevail. Courage.
I don’t think the 4 members from non SNP party will be hostile to Alex , I think they will want him to get as much truth out as possible
But 100% agree Fabiani will do her very best to close down everything as she has done so throughout this enquiry.
Hud it gaun min. Have at her!
One of the very few benefits of the Covid pandemic, and the resulting lockdowns, shielding, furlough, working from home, and other restrictions, has been that those so-inclined have been able to watch, listen, and read everything relating to the ‘Harassment’ committee’s work.
A small group of us started doing this during the build up to the Judiscial Review.
Until then, none of us knew who or what to think or believe.
We were, and still are active SNP members, but only because we support our local candidate.
That could easily change after 6th May.
We’ve missied nothing – the JR, the criminal trial- where we must thank blogs like ‘Wings’ – and those of Dangerfield, Lawson, Murray, and (sorry Stu), Kelly.
There are others, and every one is saying much the same thing.
A few media columnists also also started to see what we were seeing as event unfolded.
We watched every minute of the committee’s evidence sessions, and talked about the witnesses once we’d also read the ‘official reports'(we also spotted a few ‘redactions’ there too).
Every letter and response was studied, as was all the written evidence.
We’ve been reviewing much of this evidence in recent weeks, and spotted the same thing Iain Lawson has said very recently !
Basically, as more evidence appeared (or didn’t, which is every but as relevant), we discussed things on Zoom and other platforms, and a few months ago we concluded that Alex Salmond was the victim of a shocking, high level political/criminal conspiracy, the likes of which none of us has ever witmessed before in UK politics, and two of our wee group are pushing 70 (the youngest is early 30’s).
We’ll all be watching today, knowing that ‘the Scottish establishment’ has prevented Salmond from being able to tell ‘the whole truth’, and ‘nothing but the truth’.
And we’ll also be vert aware that many, possibly most of the other witnesses (including those who managed to avoid appearing in person and taking an oath) took the same oath, and then told ‘nothing like the truth’ !!
He’s not going to judged by anyone.
Salmond is about to skelp their pusses.
Just under a year ago Alex was battling for truth and justice as well as his own liberty outnumbered by odds of nine to one and he prevailed. Today he faces another nine – and he will win through again.
In all our efforts to defend a man who has been victimised and subjected to an almighty fit up and conspiracy designed to destroy his reputation and imprison him please never allow the unionist narrative to dominate. Talk of ‘banana republics’ is rank hypocrisy from a stinking, decaying and decomposing corpse of British unionism. These bastards are the ones presiding over a banana monarchy resplendent with butcher’s aprons and the brazen criminality which was confirmed in the London High Court last week involving literally billions of pounds worth of Covid19 contracts awarded to shell companies, unsuitable companies and useless companies all with one common denominator – their links to Tory cabinet members and senior politicians and consistent donations to the Tory party. When Hopeless Matt Hancock is behind bars for a series of criminal actions unionist fuckers can point the finger at us. Until then they can keep their stupid, hypocritical narratives to themselves because regardless of our real problems their union is withering on the vine and will not last. Boris Johnson is despised and the desire for Scottish independence is bigger and broader than any one party or individual. The Tories are guilty of ‘social murder’ and consistent criminality but their poodle and lickspittle MSN turn a blind eye. We shouldn’t. We must keep our eye on the big cause. Expose the British unionists as the criminals, hypocrites and charlatans they are link to sptnkne.ws
So Alex turns up.
The Committee try to gag him, by refusing to let him refer to the truth as per his written submission given under oath.
Alex politely turns on his heel and takes his leave.
Outside he has the whole of the world press waiting, who have allocated 4 hrs, waiting for his full truthful statement.
At the end.
Pull pin walk away.
Cat well and truly out of the bag for all to see and hear.
Await meltdown!!!
Andy Ellis at 11:29 am
Slightly O/T, but was just wondering if you know what this “big news” coming in the next few weeks @jeggit is referring to in his recent posts is all about?
Ah, Jeggit, the wee bugger – he’s done this previously. Whatever the hell it is, I hope it’s not a selfie in a Mankini..
Alex Salmond is there to tell the truth. The committee chair is there to stop him. I predict it will all end in tears and the hearing will have to be abandoned.
Let Justice be done or the Heavens fall! As Jim Garrison said. And when justice is done the LA and NS should step down! They have made a farce of justice law and TRANSPARENCY. What a nerve Sturgeon had to dare Alex to prove the evidence that SHE HID via redaction. The Indy supporters backing her to really should take a hard look at what she has done because it is abuse of power corruption deception and lie after lie. She has disgraced justice and integrity and MUST STEP DOWN to stop this embarrassment of our nation. The Irreverent Stu Campbell has done a great service to real rather than supine journalism in Scotland with this blog! If I was outside the parliament to day I would have a banner saying LIES FOR JOBS ROLL UP MAKE IT UP GET PROMOTED! alex should have been welcomed back into the SNP and he WILL and SHALL fulfil the dream he said that would never die. I will vote Indy when he is back at the helm rather than the ACTOR who has used the Yes camp as her vanity mirror and never meant a word of it. Utter treachery of the worst kind to a man who gifted her the job.
Unfortunately, many people have made up their minds regardless of what they hear from Alex today, they will take what is said out of context to reinforce their contorted version of what they believe happened and will happily blame the victim for what has happened.
Under no circumstances will they apportion any blame to Nicola Sturgeon. She is a deity to them and so infallible.
Amen Tommy
Ignore all the Spec op posters talking shite and attempting to belittle Scotland.
It’s a shit time but it will be over soon enough.
BREAKING:
Former First Minister Alex Salmond will not be able to attend today’s hearing after all its members were eaten by a family of bears.
“Och it was terrible,” said a bystander, Fraser Murdoch, who bears a striking resemblance to Murdo Fraser but has a large novelty moustache. “The bears just came and ate them all so it looks like we won’t be able to hear Salmond’s evidence after all”.
A spokesman for one of the bears, [redacted], said that they would regurgitate the MSPs, but only once the Scottish Parliament has been dissolved for the election.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this was just another cynical ploy by Mr. Salmond to demean the experiences of man-eating bears. She added that Salmond was a fat old lech, Joanna Cherry has nae mates, Kenny Macaskill is a KGB plant, and that she didn’t want to talk about the subject because she was focussed on covid.
Now, to more serious matters, BBC Scotland heads to a ten-minute feature on how more and more Scots aren’t putting butter on their morning toast. Our special investigations team find out more”.
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just:
That his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Can I have a link for the Burns room in the Scottish Parliament?
Thanks in advance. I want to see Alex in the committee giving his account of harassment.
A very fair assessment of events and analysis from James Matthews on Sky just now, alluding to the timing of the complaints and his possible comeback.
The things you find yourself saying…
Wonder how long Fabiani and the rest of the SNP members have been doing their Lawyer prep and have their question sheets ready to go. If it were anyone else but Alex Salmond you might worry they would struggle but if he on his game and isn’t interrupted every two seconds by Fabiani it should get interesting.
Committee Room 1 – link to scottishparliament.tv
Kiwilassie, Stu posted a bunch of links for video in the article
Fucking disgrace of a man Aly Smith on Sky news basically saying “even though Alex Salmond was found not guilty he is still guilty anyway”
Like or loathe Mr Salmond this type of unchallenged utter horse shit from a prick like him is what is ruining the reputaion of our judiciary and parliament not Alex Salmond !
A Person. 12.02.
Pot Noodle sprayed all over laptop.
Thanks for that.
@ Mr Bruce Hosie
Aye, and questions no doubt provided by Brillo Enterprises Inc.
Come on Alex!
I know who I want to be standing when we reach the end of the day and it isnae NS.
Amazing how many people have just become interested in this procedure and mistakenly believe that Alex is just an arrogant philanderer, yesterday’s man who can’t bear being out of the news. Also, amazing how many people know someone who knows a woman who worked for Alex and said ‘ he was all over them”.
Well, let’s hope the truth will win and maybe,just maybe, these people will see for the first time how they have been lied to and manoeuvred for someone else’s gains.
Good luck Alex.
The horrendous Garavelli, some churnalist from London, still lying through their teeth.
If things go well for AS, I think some of the sycophants will start distancing themselves from the FM.
That is, the ones who only care about their careers.
We can only wait..
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Andrew gordon says:
26 February, 2021 at 12:09 pm
Fucking disgrace of a man Aly Smith on Sky news
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Aye, whats he doing there anyway?
He’s the MP for Stirling not an MSP, it’s no his place of work!
Lockdown anyone?!?
Should Nicola remain anonymous? Asking for a friend…
I should have looked at the opening posts before asking for a link. I hope one of them will work for me in NZ.
It’s Saturday morning here. 1: 14 am.
I most probably will sleep all day tomorrow while the sun is shining . “Smiling “
Kiwiklassie
see the top of the thread above – the Rev has listed 4 links for watching the hearing and you may need to try more than one in case some of the links crash.
Very best of luck Alex from ALL true Scots independence supporters who are not interested in being part of a clique but purely and totally believe in independence for our beautiful country and people
That beautiful country and people ONLY want honesty and integrity from people we elect not corruption and lies
I think we are going to be entertained by the Basil Fawlty tribute act today
It’s going to become evident with a few wee tweaks you will start to notice some changes
Don’t mention the WAR will be changed to don’t mention Nicola all together now pay attention.
Don’t mention Nicola
Don’t mention Nicola
Don’t mention Nicola
Now have we all got it , your job and pension depends on it Don’t mention Nicola
Sounds bleedn stupid but what do I know
So far so good – got access to Committee Room 1 at just after 12:25
Thoughts and prayers it all goes as it should for AS….these bustards will do anything to protect sturgeon.
I agree, Alex is equal to the task. He’s the greatest political communicator of his generation. Plus he has truth and justice on his side, always a bonus.
I nearly forgot white waiting for the show to start
Go for the fkn Throat Alex don’t hold back drag her name through the same shit as she’s dragged yours she didn’t hold back yesterday so return the compliment in spades
Oh here we go
“Alaisdair Adam ( Na h-Eileanan an Iar) and Stuart MacMillan (Greenock and Inverclyde) are the two SNP MSPs standing for re-election.”
You mean (Dr) Alistair Allan, who was Nicola Sturgeon’s deputy when she ran the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association back in the 1990s?
Allan was appointed only in July 2020 to the Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints.
Courage mon brave!!!
something tells me the live-feed will experience
“technical difficulties”
at some point, for some reason and for some time.
we should run a book on it.
Has it started? None of the links above working.
there she goes, there she goes again
linda fabiani’s hair played bass for the “scream” (primals) in the mid 90s
moan then!
Go onto the guardian site, they have a live feed skip
Seconds out round 1
Right Alex get stuck in go for it
I wonder how long it will take for the referee to intervene ?
Alex . Wishing you all the best. I left Scotland in 1969 so didn’t know of you when I lived there. I have done a lot of research since your Indy Ref in 2014 & have looked into your whole career.
You are a good man. A son of Scotland. In my eyes, by what I’ve learned of you, you are a legend.
You will win this battle. Truth will always come out.
How could Nicola do this to you, when you treated her like a daughter & was the person to hand over the golden challis & respected party to her.. If it wasn’t for you she wouldn’t have achieved the position of being First Minister.
She got there clinging onto your coat tails.
I recon the only mistake you made in politics, was to hand your succession down to this woman.
Tv lagging about 30s behind Internet…..
Big Eck not holding back!
Fkin hell, going by his opening statement this should be good!
I can’t bear to watch. My very good wishes to Mr Salmond though. I’ll come back for the reactions of those brave enough to watch.
Tommy Sheridan – word bro .
Give those gloating hypocrites precisely fuck all .
This is Scotland’s business and Scotland will sort it out , one way or another
This is making the Tories happy if nothing else, just sayin’.
But I tell you, all this stuff is doing Wings’ viewing figures no harm!???
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TNA2019,
Thanks for that quote…
As is not on trial.
AS is not on trial.
AS is not on trial.
But the Scottish Parliament is.
(Last sentence, my words).
Alex, please enjoy you say and some justice today.
Fabiani doesn’t matter. History will judge her whitewash.
Alex, PLEASE be aware, just as this FRAUD of a whitewash committee is, as Stuart Campbell eloquently puts it, a room full of entirely hostile people, they don’t matter that much.
For the benefit of an honourable and decent man, the Rt. Hon. Alex Salmond, there are processes, legal and otherwise outwith the Fabiani Whitewash Committee NOW UNDER WAY that will assist in bringing the Scottish Parliament, the Clown Office and the McWoke SNP back into GOOD REPUTE.
In other words Alex, whatever happens today, many of us outside this Fabiani arena, have your back.
What happened to Nicola Sturgeon is tragic. That she stabbed you in the back is disgusting.
What she and her turncoats have done have aged you 20 years when comparing photos of you in 2014 to today.
ALEX, WE HAVE YOUR BACK.
Now I just heard you utter the much sought words…
Today that changes….
And Alex begins his evdidence after remaining respectfully silent for so many months.
Today will lift our hearts. But I suspect will also make many of us sad as well.
@Tommy Sheridan
I agree with you 100% that talking about Scotland being a banana republic in the context of the UK is laughable.
But there might be more depth to this plot yet. We are only half way of uncovering it. We don’t know what else is being hidden out there. We might find in time that this plot was devised south of the border for a takeover of Holyrood or they simply took advantage half way to exploit the situation.
In any case, something is interesting about November 2017. There are an awful lot of politicians in the UK that were conveniently targeted around this point (link to en.wikipedia.org). Coincidence? I would think not.
There appears to be some parallels in the modus operandi of the the botched case brought against Mr Salmond and the way Mr Sargent’s case was handled. In both cases the “accused” was not informed of the allegations, they were kept in the dark, they were not allowed to defend themselves properly, the press quickly took over as if they were in a hurry to make it public and there was some aprehension for judicial reviews, suggesting that the orchestrators were not confident with their own procedure.
Mr Sargent’s family brought a judicial review into the case that led him to his death because there were perceived irregularities. This was quickly shot down by an “agreement” and payment to the family.
link to standard.co.uk
Around the end of November 2017 there was another labour politician who also took on his own life due to harassment allegations. It seems this expedition was going too far. It remains to be explored why all these people were really targeted.
Are we seriously expected to believe Sturgeon and her team of amnesiac and rather incompetent civil servant plotters were operating solo and in parallel of this UK wide fishing expedition that targeted all these people at the time, or would it be far more plausible to think that this was in fact part of that UK wide operation and Mr Salmond had already been targeted as one of the scalps to be won in November 2017 as was Carl Sargent?
We should never underestimate how far the British state is prepared to go to retain control over Scotland’s assets.
Meg merrilees says:
26 February, 2021 at 12:15 pm
Conversley, I have a young attractive female relative who worked for the SNP at Holyrood and found him to be the perfect gentleman.
Ha ha ever a showman brilliant start and showing he’s not going to be pushed around especially from the chair
Nice try Mrs but No Cigar dear
Fabiani’s first question completely pointless and time wasting.
Did Mitchell actually ask a question in all of that ambling narrative?
He’s light years ahead of them:-)
Just shows you what a bloody loss to the Independence movement Alex is
We are lumbered with a very very poor substitute not just poor but fkn useless
‘We shouldn’t confuse institutional failure with personnel’
‘Some consequence should follow after unlawful conduct’
the parliament feed seems to have a slight DELAY wrt the BBC feed
fabiani’s first Q is baroque, technical – where is the landmine
mitchell #1 – debating society civics question
AS comes out smoking – but is the committee doing rope a dope?
ask boring questions, run the clock down (then ambush later)
I see – trying to make him look like HE set up the complaints procedure, then it bit HIM in the arse
Tommy Sheridan no disrespect mate but this isn’t about you stop trying to derail our anger.
How good is it to listen to a grown-up who knows what he is talking about? He is light years ahead of the pygmies governing us just now.
Going to have a break at 2.15 to disinfect the place, if they had of got rid of 5 members of the committee that would have cleaned the place up no end
Jeez. I hope they’re not going to spend 4 hours on irrelevant questions.
Pygmies attacking him but he is handling it well. Gaun yersel Alex
Watt just handed her arse!
Margaret Mitchell shops in Tesco when there is a M&S Food Hall across the road.
Watt just shot herself in the foot.
Maureen Watts trying to match wits with Alex Salmond.:-)
Maureen Watt is attempting aggression – let’s see
As someone who has not really followed Scottish politics, I’m finding his testimony fascinating. Seeing a human being rather than a politician. Keeping taking things back to the facts of the matter.
Section 1 this policy covers bullying and harassment….
I rest my case, your Honour.
and the first point goes to Alex Salmond….
Maureen Watt showing why she was not fit for his government, She has arrived carrying a lot of baggage.
@holymacmoses – He’s swatting her aside like a troublesome fat midgie.
I’m not a great fan of AS, but I must say it is great to see and hear him again.
We have arsehole number 2, James Wolffe, to look forward to on Monday.
I can’t believe even now, that folk are pointing the finger south of the border for this whole mess until we look inward and fix this mess, and bring the country TOGETHER then we will never have peace.
This is Scotland’s problem. It’s our mess and ours to fix. Time people grew up and tried to move forward.
How thick is Maureen Watt?
Asking irrelevant hypothetical questions.
Who on earth is this watt she’s about as bright as a 2waty bulb
Jeez oh Maureen Watt totally out of her depth, floundering and clearly getting frustrated as Alex Salmond runs rings roundabout her.
Mo Watt is likely to be like a member convenor who is likely to be total twit.
I am watching a snp MSP attempting to land a blow and missing by miles not only missing she’s looking bloody stupid and Alex is attempting to educate her , oh fkn shut up yah stupid fkn idiot and least if you shut yer gob we can give you the benefit of the doubt ,
Question do we actually pay this fkn idiot ?
Christ the bar must be set really low if this idiot managed to sneak in ffs
Watching today’s Holyrood Committee. Maureen Watt’s questioning is hostile, if not disrespectful in manner. Salmond staying dignified against her slimy insinuations about his behaviour years ago. Someone should tell her this is not a rerun of the trial or is she too thick to understand that.
Is Maureen Watt saying the previous process was flawed because of AS? She seems incapable of addressing the flaws of the policy that is the subject of the inquiry!
Maureen Watt is trying to try Mr Salmond
That Maureen Watt needs to shut her stupid mouth now. What an idiot .
Watt appears to be doubling down on the “me too” side of things here. Now citing opinion poll which isn’t the most reliable of guides. And now she goes low and dirty.
oh! watt oversteps – the temptation to RE-TRY him over things he has been cleared of – that is a FOUL
Maureen Watt is failing miserably in an attempt to look smart!
I am so ANGRY. Alex has been put through hell and seeing it in his face just drives it home. It’s absolutely disgusting what has happened to him.
Apart from being the leading politician of his time he ain’t alone in that chamber. He has the truth on his side.
He will prevail. Meantime the snp is being run by a group of mendacious, political pygmies.
Unlock the West Gate, Alex. “For you’ve no seen the last o my bonnets and me”.
Oh and ps Maureen watt. Shame on you.
And the first foul goes to the Scottish Government… shame on you Maureen Watts.
Good. Salmond put Watt back in her box. Should’ve seen her face.
Maureen Watt: what a c*nt. To think I voted for that mess.
Ffs . Here comes another fecking eegit Cole Hamilton, jesus wept.
Cole Hamilton being a fanny!
Cole-Hamilton playing to the big audience.
Good for Fabiani, putting the rodent Cole Hamilton in his place. Both the SNP and unionist sides of this committee are attacking Salmond, and she’s stamping down on it hard.
what a slimeball alex cole is
What a weasel Cole-Hamilton is.
The witch hunt continues. Brazenly in front of the cameras too.
Shouting at my laptop now. Cole-Hamilton needs thrown off the committee. Even Fabiani is slapping the twisted bastard down
Fucking disgrace, these questions!
Cole Hamilton – what a diddy; if you want to get aggressive, you cannot go at it like that; even Fabbyanny slaps him down
“never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man”
Mr Cole Hamilton was THERE when Mr Salmond was around – why is he asking this?
Alex Salmond delivering a masterclass on why reactive governance to Twitter trends leads to disaster.
That Maureen Watt and Alex Cole-Hamilton appear to need Salmond to not only spoonfeed them, but go “Here comes the big aeroplane – neeeeoooowww!” is an indictment of the level of political pigmies on parade today.
Did Cole-Hamilton not bother reading the remit of today’s committee? Or has he put in a special please of “the dog ate it, miss”?
ach being utterly despicable!
What is this session about again ? Is it a trial ? The convener should have intervened immediately and stopped this smearfest.
Fuck me. Cole Hamilton putting Salmond on trial again.
Christ! Who is the eejit Cole – Hamilton ? Do folk vote for him? or is he another Murdo Fraser? Backdoor MSP?
Fk if I thought the previous idiot was pushing it
Co Hamfist has now been warned twice
A real surprise is the convener has noticed low blows being attempted he just doesn’t get it he is following a line of questions that are way outside his competence in other words drop the fkn bone it’s not in the remit , this clown is way out of order .
Watt = embarrassing
C-H = enbarrassing
AS = decent human being
Thus far
Alex Cole Hamilton attempting to lead off a tangent about Alec Salmond temper. Hamilton an arse licking Tory stooge.
Alex lining up his ducks now. Evans, Murrell etc. Bring it on.
Get Cole-Hamilton TF
So far Alex is a great lion taimer.
With Alex Cole-Hamilton being well put back in the box.
Happy with Linda Fabiani trying to keep Hamilton on track.
I look forwards to AS coming out clean with the cabal in serious trouble
Why according to what Fabiani said at the beginning civil servants cannot be addressed by name?
Alex Salmond needs to tell A C Hamilton to eff off .
Absolutely outrageous enquiry seeking to rerun the court cases, seeking to blacken Alex Salmond.
Cole Hamilton is an a sute animal. All over the place trying to smear. Ditto Maureen Watt. Snarling pygmies.
Alec Salmond by comparison comes across very very well.
Liam Fox yes that little uncle Tam bastard is saying in Westminster that the Westminster parliament may need to step in at Holyrood because of the Nicole Sturgeon Affair.
Given the line of questioning so far I have even less faith in a fair outcome of this committee. I’m unsure they’re ever going to move beyond the Fair work policy – just spin that and smears out for four hours.
AS playing with Wightman as a cat plays with a mouse.
Well so far the committee’s questions have been one of slurring Alex Salmond or wandering off the into areas where the committee has no remit.
I’m loving the way Alex sees what direction their line of questioning is leading to and tailors his answer to bring it back under his control. A master politician!
Cole-Hamilton seeking a soundbite and public flogging.
How do these people get elected? How is someone like that allowed to be involved in making laws? It is staggering. He is completely inept.
So Andy Wightman has papers that no other member of the committee has seen:-)
Can I just say to cole hamilton what he said to Maree Todd.
How the actual fuck did Andy Shiteman get hold of a “draft letter informing former FMs of this new policy”
Fabiani says Committee hasn’t seen it?
Also if it is a “draft” men’s it was finalised and may well have not been sent.
Who is feeding Shiteman?
Also if docs not seen by committee can be discussed surely G Aberdeins evidence can now openly be discussed?
Sauce for the goose and all that!
alex Salmond must be wondering what’s he’s done to be sitting answering banal questions from the like of arsecole-hamilton and shiteman.
As Wightman’s letter wasn’t presented to the committee beforehand, is it allowable as any form of evidence?
If the draft letter hasnt been published, how can he refer to it ??
slight curveball from wightman there
Alex Cole Hamilton – what a muppet! Made Wightman look articulate and intelligent!
What the hell is Alistair Allan on about? Salmond wasn’t attacking the committee, he was exonerating it. This is a hatchet job.
Jeez.
One numpty after another trying to have their ‘Rumpole’ moment today. Bunch of absolute amateurs.
What exactly is being examined again here?!
Well done Mr S for keeping cool.
idiotic or insulting questions should be dealt with by one word answers; “fuck off”, also works (or as the kids like to say – “have sex”)
If this sly wee bunch of rats is the best we can find for the Scottish Parliament, then there is something badly wrong with our system.
Incredible, absolutely incredible, but as I watch Alex Salmond giving evidence on the BBC, the broadcaster at 13.42 is flashing up side bar quotes from the First Minister releasing a statement that Alec Salmond is making allegations without a shred of evidence.
What a fucking joke. Quite frankly if the BBC and Sturgeon are releasing statements like this as the live broadcast proceeds they need to get this we c*nt into the dock.
So before enquiry of Salmond has even finished Sturgeon is screaming that Salmond is making up allegations without not just evidence but even a ‘ shred ‘ of evidence.
Day by day Scotland’s politics becomes ever more byzantine, even ‘levantine’.
Wow, think i’ve seen a camel!
Asking the same out of order Question in a slightly different way is not really clever it just draws attention to the Questioner it doesn’t make them look smart it just makes them look fkn bloody awkward.
So far it’s ALEX way ahead on not just points but on actually blows landed Alex is so far ahead he’s playing a totally different game he’s a professional playing against a school team it’s that one sided
The snp plants have been coached and are attempting to re run the criminal trial , the snp bods wouldn’t have had the time of day in a Alex Salmond cabinet , personally I wouldn’t have them make the Tea never mind sweep the floor that’s how fkn useless they appear .
Just listening to and watching Alex Salmond is a reminder of what we’re missing.
Never heard or listened to Alex Cole-Hamilton before but he’s a complete arse.
Willie , if that is the case then Mr Salmond’s lawyers should be alerted and on to it.
Well NS and her cronies have already made sure that he couldn’t refer to the important aspects of the evidence he already submitted, which was published, then redacted…this committee is a joke.
@2pm
Salmond was raising the issue of the letter that was going to be sent out to former First Ministers about retrospectively applying the policy that was being drafted by Evans. He questions the motivations given that nothing had ever been done either the Scottish Government or any other administration within the UK.
Headshot!
Alasdair Allan is supremely thick
I thought this committe was investigating whether Sturgeon lies to parliament, because although I have only been watching for 40 mins it seems to be concentrating on slurring him.
Jeezo that Allan guy. Like someone’s half-starved and shaved Frankie Boyle.
That Alasdair Allan guy looks the type who would’ve been offering his dinner money to the school bully before being threatened for it.
I am hearing a lot of talk about Shred not a shred of whatever
All from the same source
Nicola Sturgeon
Eh maybe she’s been too involved in much of the SHREDDING I suppose if you have been doing that to cover yer arse you might keep saying Shred it Shred it the term might well stick
Jockanese Wind Talker @ 1.41 pm and others ,
“ How the actual fuck did Andy Shiteman get hold of a “draft letter informing former FMs of this new policy”
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This is an article about the letter he’s referring to ,
“ The harassment policy at the centre of the so-called Salmond inquiry was legally dubious from the outset because none of the former ministers who could have been targeted by the policy were consulted before it was signed off by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. “
link to archive.vn
Alex S is warning to the task nicely – Alaster Alan’s arse has just been whipped.
Did Alan ask questions of this detail and complexity of any other witness?
No of course not because His questions have been written by someone else – probably Evans or even Wolfe…
Proper questions now from Jackie B
Run away and hide Allan, you appalling man.
Bill Mackay @ 1:00
“Tommy Sheridan no disrespect mate but this isn’t about you stop trying to derail our anger.”
I’m not sure Tommy’s remarks are about him at all, nor do I think he is trying to derail ‘our anger’ as you suggest.
Some view, as I do, that Scotland’s predicament primarily reflects our longstanding subjugation through colonial oppression; in line with this thesis it remains that independence is effectively decolonisation, according to the UN.
The UK ‘union’ is in this sense a political deception which thankfully more Scots are now starting to appreciate, not least thanks to Rev Stu and other Scottish intellectuals/bloggers. But fundamentally there is a reason for the deceitful behaviour of the British state and its agencies towards Scotland, much of which Tommy rightly alludes to, and which I would relate to our colonial reality, where deceit becomes the norm, and independence the rightful and inevitable outcome.
These and related aspects are extensively covered in my book ‘Doun-Hauden’.
I can’t fucking believe Jackie Fuckin Baillie is actually the one who apparently is going to the meat of this – and the actual remit of the Fabiani Inquiry!
Thank goodness Jacquie Baillie has now brought us back on course with a bang.
Alasdair Allan comes across as a man with a plan and selective deafness.
Anyone care to give their impression of the score right now
I think it’s 3-1 to Alex if it was a football match , if it was a boxing match then the Referee looks close to stopping the fight because the opposition are unable to mount any defence
Alf Baird no disrespect but it’s an open comments about what corruption took place inside the sco/gov,whet ever happens in the uk gov can wait and is totally not needed today.
Comment at 2:05pm in moderation Rev.
Can’t see anything contentious (maybe too sweary)!
Update on the latest score and a correction
Previous score should have been 3-0 and not 3-1
Latest score 4-0 to Alex
All these idiots want to talk about is his “behaviour”. All coached to ask the same thing.
Let’s ignore the elephant in the room that was the concerted effort by actors of the State and Government to jail him.
Why is Wightman playing with an earpiece?
So it “wasn’t” Sturgeon’s principle private secretary, who leaked the info to Clegg at the Daily Record. It must have been one of the other twenty-two suspects from the Scottish government.
McMillan – same question as Allan. They have been primed to try and show that the policy approach was legit, when it clearly has not been.
Cole Hamilton should remember “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt”
So far, they’ve not laid a glove on AS. Apart from Jackie Baillie, the moronic committee give truth to the West Indian saying ” the higher a monkey climbs the true, the more he shows his arse”.
Y’know looking around that committee table, it would appear that the only person who actually wants to get to the truth of the matter, apart from Alex Salmond, is Jackie Baillie.
I never ever thought I’d see the day that I’d be cheering on Jackie Baillie, however that day has come.
What’s really sad is that this committee should be seeking the truth and should be grateful to Mr Salmond for trying to help them. Instead there is much aggression against a man who has already been tried and found totally innocent
Question to all the SNP reps on the committee
Have you been coached in they way you are presenting your questions
Yes or No would be acceptable
That’s three times the snp bods are following the same line ” Former Ministers ” a practice not used anywhere else in the World it simply does not exist ,
They are desperate to get him to say former ministers should not be pursued.
Summary of the proceedings so far:
Salmond – masterful and in full command
Cole Hamilton – was he on drugs?? what a joker/clown
SNP MSPs – reading their notes poorly, lower that second rate. Remarkable similarity in the vocabulary of their questions – were they written by the same person for them??
Jackie Baillie – the only one that sounded she understood the case.
FFS! He is trying to say whatever policy you set it has to be legal!
The constant referrals by Watt and NS sycophants to does Alex object to a retrospective policy to include former ministers is deliberate to sway the public into thinking that he doesn’t agree with being investigated
He has to nail the fact that he doesn’t object to ANY minister being investigated current or former but it HAS to be LEGAL AND CORRECT and refer constantly that what happened PROVES that that is NOT what was being done
Sorry but the standard of snp msps is absolute rock bottom,but they have more power than the rest by numbers,they could have saved a fortune and just sent in 5 monkeys from Edinburgh zoo
So the line of enquiry is the policy came about because of ‘Me too’ not in order to nail you, Mr Salmond. These people are so stupid they cannot see that both can apply and were a convenient tool to do away with a political adversary.
ForWomenScotland have also put up my cartoon.
link to mobile.twitter.com
I cannot see how it can be legal or legitimate for an ex minister or employee to be the subject of an organisational investigation. Surely that has to be a police matter?
I am a believer. God bless you Alex! The truth will come out .
Remember Daniel in the lions den!
Did Big Eck just label this “a reputable journal”
not “botched” – UNLAWFUL
eat it
And Alex is on the attack. Got to say, he is very, very good at fighting his corner here, and is now telling Fabiani what the committee is meant to be discussing.
Twathater and Silver Darlin have nailed it. The snp MSPs are trying to besmirch him on the me-too agenda. Absolutely disgusting. They have no case. I’m so angry with the snp- this is just outrageous. He’s knocking lumps out them but their disingenuous approach has no integrity – shame on them. Sturgeon had brought them to this level of behaviour, it is unforgivable.
The standard of questions being asked makes you realise that Scotland can’t be independent with these idiots in charge. How many explanations from AS do these fools need. Its an absolute pleasure to listen to Alex, c’mon bonnets.
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Good Lord,
Just listening Alex Salmond elegantly navigate the minefield of what Stuart Campbell has eloquently described as a place where…
“Every single person in the room will be bitterly hostile to him”
It is distressing to realise what a huge loss to Scotland it is to have Alex Salmond out of parliament.
Albeit as a private citizen who is supposed to be enjoying a hard earnt and honourable retirement.
Contrast the ability, forensic intellect, leadership and dignity of Alex Salmond with the earlier evidence session given by the petrified putrid Peter Murrell…
link to archive.is
We are in stark times.
What worries me is that Alex hinted in his opening statement he may not wish to return to frontline Scottish politics.
All trying to paint AS as somehow misogynist. He answers the point each time, gently reminding them the policy that was put is was unlawful and biased, ‘botched’ doesn’t even to begin to cover it. then the next questioner asks it again. All the questions about AS conduct, nothing about the Scottish Government’s illegal policy. The only exception although I hate to say it was Jackie Bailey. He is showing them all up for the stooges that they are. Pathetic.
Jackie Baillie has asked a couple of important questions. Mr Salmond is managing to get some important points over. Cole Hamilton is back to his usual moronic state and I get the distinc feeling that the SNPs there have been given the questions to ask and don’t give a fig about the answers. Andy Wightmas has papers he shouldn’t have – so much for ‘privacy’
Mr Salmond must be exhausted with all this idiocy.
I can follow clearly everything Alex is speaking about ,
I start to get cross eyed when some of these MSPs are asking questions I don’t think they even understand the shite they are spouting ,
as for the current helpful intervention quoting Westminster discussing retrospective investigation into Ministers with all due respect discussion isn’t doing , and certainly isn’t doing something that is not currently in use anywhere in the world , this retrospective legislation was implemented on the hoof and as Alex has repeatedly said done at speed , and we all know the outcome don’t we A Bill for over 5 million quid in order to get one man ,
By Christ he must really fkn terrorise them are they so shit scared of one man ?
What a pathetic excuse for a committee. Summed up brilliantly by stu.
We will in future look back at this kangaroo court and with shame see what those horrible people tried to do to Alex.
Stay strong and honourable Alex. The truth will not be concealed
Is it just me or does it feel like it’s a member of your own family up there? If it wasn’t for bloody covid there’d be thousands of us outside for him.
Whatever happens Alex, when covid is over when you come to the marches the roar from the crowd will deafen Holyrood. Hail Alba.
If anyone needs to see the effect the last few years have had on Alex Salmond just need to see him today. He looks done in. Constantly trying to wear him down day after day.
Would’ve broken lesser men by now.
I have to say, having watched the Committee, Alex Salmond makes Scotland a better place.
I hope he comes back into public life.
Alexander “Alex” Geoffrey Cole-Hamilton (born 22 Julie 1977) is a Scots politeecian. This page wis last eeditit on 31 August 2020, at 00:12. Text is available unner … FRom Wikipedia. What an arse!
Alex Salmond comes over as eminently reasonable, measured, articulate and extremely patient with these fools before him. His assertive answering of the same question several times over, even after 3 years of being on trial, shows his respect to the process of this Scottish parliamentary committee even though it is populated by people whom he knows are out to try and trip him up
I mean how very dare Maureen Watt and others talk to this man after what he’s been through in that tone.
Alex Salmond comes across as leagues ahead of these shysters.
Can see why any weak and dithering person clinging on to power would fear a statesman like Mr Salmond.
fm getting handed her arse in pm questions
Calm, composed and collected!! Has showed the SNP representatives a clean pair of heels at every turn. It would appear that only Jackie Baillie and Murdo Fraser are prepared to ask the important and pertinent questions.