[News] Alex Salmond RIP

Tony Towner's Fridge

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• Feb 26, 2021

• #21

She is toast and the abuse she and her tyrannical so called 'Social Democratic' SNP party have wreaked on the Scottish Legal System in cover ups, abuse of power and general lying is gradually unfolding. Her husband (in name only) will not last a week and she will be taken down by AS.
Little gets reported down South (and here due to her stranglehold of the BBC and ITV and various super injunctions that she has in place) but it is a sad sad situation that Stalin and Hitler would have been proud of. When the ruling party controls the legal system for their own devices it is the end of democracy. She and her noxious hoards have done just that.
Luckily we get the chance on 5th May to kick her and her extremists out and restore a democratic government. The Tories up here are well led and in Ruth Davidson, who will take up a position in the Lords later in the year, they have a truly excellent politician.

TNBA

TTF

 

sparkie

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• Feb 26, 2021

• #22

A part of me wonders if this is all highest level dirty tricks to derail Scottish Independence.

If they have "any photographs" then Salmond could just be a device in the plot.

Probably not... or maybe

 

Dick Swiveller

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Yep. That's the fellow. Alec Salmond.

 

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Loadicus Trux

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• Feb 26, 2021

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As soon as they get independence, and they probably will some day the SNP will be immediately voted out.

 

Leekbrookgull

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• Feb 26, 2021

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So what is going on here ? The Snp could do well in the May elections and actually force an Indyref 2 which they could win a prize Salmond has been striving for. We know that Salmond will play to the gallery and is a slippery mover so again what is going on here ?

 

Eeyore

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Alex Salmond dead: Tributes after ex-first minister dies aged 69

SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister John Swinney says it is right to acknowledge the significant political role Salmond played.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

Zeberdi

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Eeyore said:

Alex Salmond dead: Tributes after ex-first minister dies aged 69

SNP leader and Scotland's First Minister John Swinney says it is right to acknowledge the significant political role Salmond played.

www.bbc.co.uk

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This is quite a shock - didn’t know he’d even been ill.

69 is no age.

RIP and commiserations to his family.

 

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dstanman

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Will be a big loss to Scotish politics no matter what you thought of him

 

Zeberdi

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dstanman said:

Will be a big loss to Scotish politics no matter what you thought of him

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Considered one of the most influential politicians in Scottish history. Suspected heart attack apparently.

 

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Shaktarman

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Well done for being classy NSC - not the best merge or bounce. Thing are more important than politics and opinions eh. RIP.

 

Blues Guitarist

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• Oct 12, 2024

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Too young. I was a student at St Andrews when he was president of the Federation of Nationalist Students. He was often found in the union bar (as was I) - he was good company and good to discuss/argue a point with. He was a conviction politician, not one of today's Oxbridge PPE rentamob.

 

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mothy

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Triggaaar said:

I still think he's a ****

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Jock?

 

crodonilson

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• Oct 12, 2024

• #33

RIP Alec, a true Scottish hero.

 

Wallace

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As someone else wrote, a true conviction politician who cared deeply for his country, he transformed politics north of the border. Sturgeon would have been nothing without him as soon as they fell out she and the SNP were finished. RIP in big man, I didn't agree with most of your politics but I respect you for being a true socialist, something Starmer will never be.

 

TugWilson

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• Oct 13, 2024

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Will there be an appEEL?

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I thought there were some incredibly crass comments on this thread, more worthy of an old-school 'NSP speaks ill of the dead' thread, them I realised that for some reason Salmond's 'RIP' thread had been added/merged onto his court case one! Jeez.

Anyway, yes, politically speaking he was a great politician. The fact he looked like a provincial solicitor meant he was always under-estimated by the English, but he almost single-handedly turned the cause of Scottish independence from being little more than a 'bagpipes in a misty glen' type of romantic idealism into a legitimate, plausible and powerful force.

 

crodonilson

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• Oct 15, 2024

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Scotland's papers: Plea for RAF to bring Salmond's body home

A plea to return the body of former First Minister Alex Salmond to Scotland leads several of today's front pages.

www.bbc.com

Clamour from Scotland for the RAF to repatriate Salmond's body from Macedonia with military honours.

Sure to be an incredibly emotional occasion at Hampden tonight as his beloved Scotland take on Portugal, a minutes applause planned amongst other tributes and honours.