Alex Salmond accused (and then cleared) of sexual misconduct.

[geminisnake]

Forgot to set it up to record.

Is it worth watching tomorrow on the iPlayer?

No, it missed the entire defence and was from all accounts 100% biased, which surprised no-one tbh. Even the Torygraph has slated it. Kirsty just couldn't handle the verdict, suck it up bitch.

I can't really remember who Iain Lawson is but he's an ex Tory and this is his take on it

KIRSTY WARK AND THAT PROGRAMME.

This is the second of the series of older articles which I am reblogging as a reminder of what went on to bring us to this point. This is clearly also a test of time and is the article relevant? In…

yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com

 

[Sasaferrato]

"This story is only just beginning", so aye it is.

The conspiracy theory stuff is rubbish. Why have a conspiracy against yesterday's man?

'The Scottish government has refused to hand over significant legal papers to a Holyrood investigation into the handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond, claiming they are too sensitive to disclose.

John Swinney, the deputy first minister, told the specially convened Scottish parliament committee that the government would withhold its papers on the former first minister’s legal action against it, its own legal advice and key documents from its internal inquiry.'.


This is disgraceful, this is public money. There is your conspiracy.

 

[danny la rouge]

I’ve not watched the Kirsty Wark thing. Nor do I want to. But I understand the docu focused on the prosecution case and ignored the defence. Whatever the intention, that lets Salmond off the hook on the behaviour he admitted, by focussing on what he was cleared of. That allows his supporters to sidestep any “me too” type focus on the self admitted creepy workplace behaviour from a man in a position of power and instead - correctly - shout that he was acquitted of the criminal charges. The conversation should have been quite different.

Not that he’ll make the come back some people are bizarrely suggesting, as the leader of another pro Independence party. He’s a spent force.

 

[gosub]

'The Scottish government has refused to hand over significant legal papers to a Holyrood investigation into the handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond, claiming they are too sensitive to disclose.

John Swinney, the deputy first minister, told the specially convened Scottish parliament committee that the government would withhold its papers on the former first minister’s legal action against it, its own legal advice and key documents from its internal inquiry.'.


This is disgraceful, this is public money. There is your conspiracy.

Alistair Bonnington: Salmond inquiry reflects poorly on Scotland’s democratic traditions

There never has been a clearer case made out for the utility of law and lawyers than the so-called Salmond Inquiry in the Scottish Parliament. The "Committee on the Scottish government handling of harassment complaints" to give it its correct title, has thus far failed to unearth the truth about the

www.scottishlegal.com

Eamon Keane: Clarity on Salmond inquiry

Eamon Keane responds to Alistair Bonnington on the Scottish Parliament's Salmond inquiry. I wish to comment upon one matter, related to evidence and procedure, raised in Alistair Bonnington’s opinion piece, in which he is, in my opinion, wholly incorrect. Namely, his assertions about the inte

scottishlegal.com

 

[danny la rouge]

The inquiry is under way. The SNP are knocking lumps out of each other. The unionists are making the most of it. And StuAnon are up to their foreheads in fantasy.

Not that there’s anyone else to scoop up votes in May.

 

[andysays]

The inquiry is under way. The SNP are knocking lumps out of each other. The unionists are making the most of it. And StuAnon are up to their foreheads in fantasy.

Not that there’s anyone else to scoop up votes in May.

I've been wondering what's going on with all this.

This quote (from here) looks a bit odd, to say the least

The row began when allegations of sexual harassment - which he strongly denied - were made against Mr Salmond by two female civil servants in 2018.

The complaints were made after Ms Sturgeon asked for new government policies on sexual harassment to be put in place in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Mr Salmond believed the policy was aimed at him.

 

[danny la rouge]

"Alex Salmond makes an extraordinary attack on his successor
@NicolaSturgeon
, claiming that the leadership of the civil service, the prosecuting authority, and the country itself have all failed." - James Cook, BBC.

So, not holding any grudges at all, then.

 

[danny la rouge]

“I’d like to blame the trees, the flowers, the grass, the pebbles, the larger stones, the stones that aren’t small boulders but aren’t stones really ...”

 

[danny la rouge]

Alex Massie: “Extraordinary: Salmond effectively arguing that, if he is correct, Scotland is not actually fit to be independent at present.”

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Argonia]

I'm not really following this; why has he got the hump with Sturgeon?

 

[Raheem]

I'm not really following this; why has he got the hump with Sturgeon?

Seems like because he feels she should have protected him but didn't.

 

[weepiper]

danny la rouge : 'StuAnon' is genius.

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm not really following this; why has he got the hump with Sturgeon?

Because he's having a big strop that she let him be #MeToo-ed.

 

[gosub]

I'm not really following this; why has he got the hump with Sturgeon?

He's a Scotsman who feels he has a grievance.

 

[Raheem]

I'm not really following this; why has he got the hump with Sturgeon?

By the way, "hump with Sturgeon" might be a phrase to be avoided in the context.

 

[danny la rouge]

The committee were mostly rubbish and he walked all over them, which was a forgone conclusion really. And it is in fact an enquiry into the handling of the matter by the Scot Parl not into Salmond. But he got far too easy a ride.

 

[danny la rouge]

Eck’s performance not going down well in some quarters. (Cameron Archibald is a founder and director of this economic think tankhttps://www.modernmoney.scot/ ).

 

[danny la rouge]

Will there be Jamiriquai hats?

 

[danny la rouge]

One more for the flavour of StuAnon:

 

[danny la rouge]

And that, my friends, is a summary of what’s going on in some sections of Scottish twitter.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Double double, toil and trouble.
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

 

[redsquirrel]

One more for the flavour of StuAnon:

I'm not sure that these people don't help Sturgeon. They are so batshit that I can't see most people wanting to get within spitting distance of the them - which could mean that any real deficiencies in the way Sturgeon handled things will get lost amongst their lunacy.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I see that the social distancing measures that we are lectured about daily by the dentist have really sunk in.

 

[danny la rouge]

the dentist

Quoi?

 

[belboid]

Quoi?

I guess

 

[danny la rouge]

Snickers Man, as we must now say.

 

[weepiper]

I see that the social distancing measures that we are lectured about daily by the dentist have really sunk in.

That image has been photoshopped. The original is from a BBC article from 2019 (pre Covid). The doctored image appeared on Wings Over Scotland, the unionists' friend.

 

[Wilf]

Sturgeon doing a decent job of putting the focus on Salmond's lack of an apology.
Sturgeon apologises to women failed by Salmond investigation | Scotland | The Guardian

As to the rest of it, can't say I've followed the detail, but it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Sturgeon and the leadership fucked up. And the tragedy of that is that the story ends up being about procedure rather than predatory behaviour.

 

[pogofish]

Quoi?

This dentist:

Jason Leitch - Wikipedia

He's very much the COVID go-to guy for the Scottish media just now.