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Post by Orac on Oct 16, 2024 14:27:32 GMT
The last interview i saw with him, he was lamenting what had happened to the SNP. I felt a lot of sympathy for him and got a very strong impression he was basically an honest and competent man. RIP
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Post by wapentake on Oct 16, 2024 14:28:12 GMT
The newspapers tell us today that Alex Salmond died whilst opening a bottle of ketchup. He was always a bit saucy. Some people would relish in it. Very good 👍 |
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Post by om15 on Oct 16, 2024 17:08:55 GMT
Tomato sauce must be the new vogue with the upwardly mobile jocks, we always used to have broon sauce on our naffi jock pies.
Pretension did for him in the end.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 16, 2024 18:56:56 GMT
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Post by om15 on Oct 16, 2024 20:11:28 GMT
Did she bring the ketchup with her in her handbag? I can't think that any banquet laid on for ex SNP dignitaries would have unopened ketchup bottles on the table, didn't they have any waiters.
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Post by Ripley on Oct 17, 2024 15:12:12 GMT
Did she bring the ketchup with her in her handbag? I can't think that any banquet laid on for ex SNP dignitaries would have unopened ketchup bottles on the table, didn't they have any waiters. Whether she did or didn't, the fact remains that Mr. Salmond was opening the bottle for someone else, doesn't it? |
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Post by Bentley on Oct 17, 2024 15:26:24 GMT
Can we be sure that Salmond did not expect a squirt of ketchup in return for opening the bottle?
After all, he was a canny Scot .
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Post by Red Rackham on Oct 17, 2024 18:02:00 GMT
Apparently repatriating Alex Salmond's body back to the UK is causing, or was causing a bit of a Holyrood/Westminster spat. The SNP said the RAF should fly him home, the government said it was the Scottish government's responsibility. I believe a private individual stepped in to fly him home.
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Post by thomas on Oct 17, 2024 19:06:03 GMT
Apparently repatriating Alex Salmond's body back to the UK is causing, or was causing a bit of a Holyrood/Westminster spat. The SNP said the RAF should fly him home, the government said it was the Scottish government's responsibility. I believe a private individual stepped in to fly him home. David Davis the conservative politician said the RAF should fly him home. There was never any danger a labour government at Westminster would contemplate doing so ,such was the visceral hatred labour have of Alec Salmond .They saw Salmond as the man who took their fiefdom off them. Tom hunter the Scottish billionaire has paid to fly salmonds body home. Even in death , as he did daily in life , Salmond makes labour look petty and pitiful. |
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Post by patman post on Oct 26, 2024 13:39:40 GMT
Apparently repatriating Alex Salmond's body back to the UK is causing, or was causing a bit of a Holyrood/Westminster spat. The SNP said the RAF should fly him home, the government said it was the Scottish government's responsibility. I believe a private individual stepped in to fly him home. David Davis the conservative politician said the RAF should fly him home. There was never any danger a labour government at Westminster would contemplate doing so ,such was the visceral hatred labour have of Alec Salmond .They saw Salmond as the man who took their fiefdom off them. Tom hunter the Scottish billionaire has paid to fly salmonds body home. Even in death , as he did daily in life , Salmond makes labour look petty and pitiful. But far from being wiped out in Scotland (as some predicted), Scottish Labour has returned 37 MPs to Westminster compared to the SNP's nine — and Alba's how many...? |
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Post by wassock on Oct 29, 2024 20:23:09 GMT
One down, Little Jimmy to go.
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Post by om15 on Oct 30, 2024 12:38:19 GMT
I don't think that the Government should have flown the deceased Salmond home, nothing to do with his relentless resolve to break up the UK, that wasn't going to happen in any event. No, Salmond was not even a Member of Parliament, he was simply a failed parochial politician who had been rejected by the electorate and was idling his time away by making ridiculous speeches in order to blag free dinners.
He was simply not important, the State should only provide this level of support for Royalty or someone at the very top of the Civil Service or Parliament, not a disgraced and non entity troffer.
VIP treatment should not be extended to those that apply tomato ketchup to the foi de gras, the English instinctively know that.
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Post by johnofgwent on Oct 31, 2024 18:06:10 GMT
Apparently repatriating Alex Salmond's body back to the UK is causing, or was causing a bit of a Holyrood/Westminster spat. The SNP said the RAF should fly him home, the government said it was the Scottish government's responsibility. I believe a private individual stepped in to fly him home. David Davis the conservative politician said the RAF should fly him home. There was never any danger a labour government at Westminster would contemplate doing so ,such was the visceral hatred labour have of Alec Salmond .They saw Salmond as the man who took their fiefdom off them. Tom hunter the Scottish billionaire has paid to fly salmonds body home. Even in death , as he did daily in life , Salmond makes labour look petty and pitiful. I wonder how many other politicians the RAF has brought home like that ? I don't see why we should have been forced to pay for that. Nothing to do with who he was, or what he stood for. I just don't think public money should be spent on that. |
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Post by Ripley on Oct 31, 2024 18:18:57 GMT
David Davis the conservative politician said the RAF should fly him home. There was never any danger a labour government at Westminster would contemplate doing so ,such was the visceral hatred labour have of Alec Salmond .They saw Salmond as the man who took their fiefdom off them. Tom hunter the Scottish billionaire has paid to fly salmonds body home. Even in death , as he did daily in life , Salmond makes labour look petty and pitiful. I wonder how many other politicians the RAF has brought home like that ? I don't see why we should have been forced to pay for that. Nothing to do with who he was, or what he stood for. I just don't think public money should be spent on that. He was more than just a politician, though, surely? He was a former First Minister of Scotland. In any case, no-one was forced to pay to repatriate his body. It is being handled privately and paid for by Sir Tom Hunter. |
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Post by borgr0 on Nov 1, 2024 14:13:50 GMT
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