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Starry Wisdom
Who dare say pedantry is dead after that bravura demonstration?
Salmond deid
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imposs1904
Thread Killa'
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
He represented every Scotch constituency.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
"Goving, goving, gone! To the gentleman in the corner carrying a scythe and wearing a hoodie."
8ball
Decolonise colons!
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
I think there may be something that could be muck-raked but I'm not going to say much more for now as I don't have anything like full knowledge and AFAIK it concerned his private/personal life, not public/political.
gosub
~#
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Boo Radley75
Well-Known Member
Always just found him rather annoying, like he was more interested in trolling than actual politics. Really liked the SNP under Sturgeon, though.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
He stole some chips from me when I was 17; he was wandering around Dundee campaigning, and he came up and grabbed a handful of chips, and asked us how we were voting. We said we were 17 and couldn’t vote, and he left.
Guess I’m never getting compensated for the chips then.
Guess I’m never getting compensated for the chips then.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
PTK
Paul Kegan
No. Someone has died, and you are making fun of the fact. That is out of order.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
PTK
Paul Kegan
I do say that you should care about him.
That does not mean that you should post material that would upset people who knew and loved him.
You wouldn't stand outside the funeral service waving a banner, would you?
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
Yossarian
⏭️
He dropped dead during lunch at some youth political conference in North Macedonia, apparently, not sure if this means he will go to Politician Valhalla
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.com
Superdupastupor
fun to funky
I served him at the tills a couple of times at Scotmid (, just remembered they do funerals too)
Always seemed gubbed (exhausted, steess, morose)
He almost always bought one of the few items on sale that had a saltire on the packaging, which really gave me the impression that he was serious about it, man.
I think his sort of combative manner was good to build the movement, but someone less slimy/ shifty for the YES campaign would have added a few more points towards 50%.
Nº1 worry was financial for a a lot of undecideds, so the used-car salesman air was not reassuring.
I don't do condolences for anyone 3degrees+ removed, but yeh a suprise.
Always seemed gubbed (exhausted, steess, morose)
He almost always bought one of the few items on sale that had a saltire on the packaging, which really gave me the impression that he was serious about it, man.
I think his sort of combative manner was good to build the movement, but someone less slimy/ shifty for the YES campaign would have added a few more points towards 50%.
Nº1 worry was financial for a a lot of undecideds, so the used-car salesman air was not reassuring.
I don't do condolences for anyone 3degrees+ removed, but yeh a suprise.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Blair would never self identify as Scottish, which perhaps is what matters.
I guess that'll be Alba gone without ever having gained a single elected politician at any level.
won't be missed.
elbows
Well-Known Member
He dropped dead during lunch at some youth political conference in North Macedonia, apparently, not sure if this means he will go to Politician Valhalla
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.com
A cultural diplomacy conference.
Cultural diplomacy is a term of interest to people, very much including myself, who cant help but poke at things involving soft power and propaganda. The wikipedia entry about cultural diplomacy isnt too bad, it doesnt hide what it is in its fullest sense.
Cultural diplomacy - Wikipedia
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Well that’s the end of the ‘Alba Party’ then.
Salmond was an interesting politician in the 80s and 90s. Since then, not so much, and the revelations regarding his handsy entitlement & sexual incontinence really did tarnish the last decade of his existence in most people’s eyes.
Salmond was an interesting politician in the 80s and 90s. Since then, not so much, and the revelations regarding his handsy entitlement & sexual incontinence really did tarnish the last decade of his existence in most people’s eyes.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Reckon it’ll fold into the SNP or stagger on for a bit before quietly dissolving?
Boo Radley75
Well-Known Member
Isn't the Alba party basically just the SNP for transphobes? Maybe JK Rowling will take it on, seeing the seems to just be dedicating the rest of her life to this kind of crap now.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
The latter, I suspect
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I assumed so. While I wasn’t impressed with Alba, I’d imagine that the prospect of anything substantial emerging to the left of Labour in Scotland isn’t going to be helped with the SNP reassuming hegemony over nationalist politics.
