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Title: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 05:35:25 PM

Both a shock and not a shock. Enormously influential politician, sometime genius, sometime arse.


https://news.sky.com/story/former-first-minister-of-scotland-alex-salmond-dies-13232584

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Gordon on October 12, 2024, 05:53:39 PM

Will take me a wee while to process this news.

Poor Nicola - she'll now have to find something to say - should be interesting viewing for platitude enthusiasts.

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 06:33:24 PM

For me, one of the four most influential politicians in the UK of my lifetime, and the one that currently I like the most, given the others, that's not the highest bar.


Another in the line of male Scottish politicians who have died young, and he's the oldest of those I'm thinking of.

Alba is fucked, if it wasn't before, and it's not great news for the SNP as it doesn't allow for any real rapprochement. The mad ones will say Sturgeon killed him, and the mad ones on the other side will celebrate that she did.


Lots of gracious tributes from some surprising places tonight, Douglas Ross did very well. Perhaps Richard Tice saying he had become a friend may not be the tribute some might hope for but in the end that's not surprising for Alex.

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Gordon on October 12, 2024, 06:46:45 PM

Andrew Neil said nice things about him - which surprised me a little. I suppose, given how mercurial he was, many of us here in Scotland will be familiar with the robust politician but, and even allowing for 'not speaking ill of the dead, some of the tributes from those who weren't political bedfellows do seem genuinely and surprisingly warm.

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 07:04:33 PM

Not a bad tribute from John Swinney but that reflection needs to happen


https://x.com/JohnSwinney/status/1845153083313049954

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 07:23:03 PM

Salmond's last set of tweets


https://x.com/AlexSalmond/status/1845087662400499734

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 07:35:08 PM

Quote from: Gordon on October 12, 2024, 05:53:39 PM

Will take me a wee while to process this news.

Poor Nicola - she'll now have to find something to say - should be interesting viewing for platitude enthusiasts.

Sturgeon's statement.

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 12, 2024, 11:11:43 PM

Fraser Nelson on Salmond

Agree with a lot of it


https://archive.vn/Q17UQ

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 15, 2024, 12:12:07 PM

The tribute to Salmond from his lawyers


https://lemac.co.uk/levy-mcrae-pay-tribute-to-alex-salmond/

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 15, 2024, 01:00:07 PM

Very angry article from Kevin McKenna illustrating the divide in the independence movement.


https://archive.vn/dGi1s

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2024, 01:43:53 PM

Sometimes, of course, the tributes can be worse than the attacks. Scotland's supply of shite poets continues

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 20, 2024, 08:13:26 PM

Interesting article from Brian Wilson


https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/snp-honour-alex-salmond-memory-reveal-all-court-case-acquitted-4830475

Title: Re: Alec Salmond dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 12, 2025, 05:04:46 PM

Statement from Moira Salmond