Salmond deid

[Cerv]

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.

Rowling was vocally anti independence in the referendum and I don’t think has changed her mind.

 

[steeplejack]

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.

She’s a Unionist diehard so doubt she’ll have much interest in ‘Alba’

 

[steeplejack]

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.

Alba if anything drew the right wing faction away from the SNP. Those who had represented the mainstream Andrew Dewar Gibb / Wendy Wood / Ewing dynasty version of Scottish Nationalism which dominated the party’s world view until Billy Wolfe, and re-asserted itself after the 1979 failure under Gordon Wilson’s leadership.

Known for their transphobia but deeply socially conservative more generally. It doesn’t take much to irritate the haemorrhoids of an elderly membership, who partly yearn for old certainties from a vanished industrial Scotland, but also find solace in language, Celticist & cultural obscurantism.

It may take a while but they will disappear. They did have a fringe Salmond personality cult vote and with him gone they don’t even have that.

 

[Rompipalle]

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.

I think you may be right there.

 

[hitmouse]

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.

One of the best posts I've ever read on urban was a very old post about TopCat splodging chips on Martin Webster's head. Do any other urbs have chip-based anecdotes about vaguely notable figures of UK politics from the last few decades?

 

[JimW]

One of the best posts I've ever read on urban was a very old post about TopCat splodging chips on Martin Webster's head. Do any other urbs have chip-based anecdotes about vaguely notable figures of UK politics from the last few decades?

My mates saw Dennis Healy eating chips at Crewe Station, but he declined to share when asked.

 

[hitmouse]

My mates saw Dennis Healy eating chips at Crewe Station, but he declined to share when asked.

My mates saw Dennis Healy eating chips last night
Alive as you and me
Says I "Dennis, can I have some chips"
"Fuck off" says he

 

[Wilf]

One of the best posts I've ever read on urban was a very old post about TopCat splodging chips on Martin Webster's head. Do any other urbs have chip-based anecdotes about vaguely notable figures of UK politics from the last few decades?

Indeed I do.

Corbyn mania

Amidst the veneration of St Corbo of Islington portrayed here, you can also see one of Urban's finest more interested in his chips (in front of the Ice Cream van).

 

[Wilf]

Also, changing foodstuffs, my 5 year old self was traumatised thus:

Whilst campaigning for the 1966 general election, George Brown (Labour Deputy Leader at the time and, I think, the object of Private Eye's 'tired and emotional' euphemism), stole my ice cream.

 

[Elpenor]

Also, changing foodstuffs, my 5 year old self was traumatised thus:

Whilst campaigning for the 1966 general election, George Brown (Labour Deputy Leader at the time and, I think, the object of Private Eye's 'tired and emotional' euphemism), stole my ice cream.

Was it rum and raisin?

 

[Rompipalle]

 

[PTK]

What absolute tosh. Public figures, especially politicians, are fair game for humour, alive dead or somewhere in between.

I note that you posted on the thread to celebrate the anniversary of Thatcher's death and didn't then object and get upset for Carole and Mark.

Are you a member of the Thought Police? Why are you going through all my past posts?

 

[SpookyFrank]

What’s the going rate for ‘decent intervals’ these days?

Half a week?

For Fayed it was well over a year. Presumably that was when his lawyers' retainers expired.

 

[JimW]

My mates saw Dennis Healy eating chips last night
Alive as you and me
Says I "Dennis, can I have some chips"
"Fuck off" says he

I believe the enquiry was phrased as "Two's up on your chips, Dennis?"

 

[lazythursday]

Are you a member of the Thought Police? Why are you going through all my past posts?

I didn't go through 'all' of your past posts. I went on a thread created to celebrate a death to see if you contributed. You did, though not in a particularly celebratory way to be fair, but not in a censorious way either.

 

[pogofish]

One of the best posts I've ever read on urban was a very old post about TopCat splodging chips on Martin Webster's head. Do any other urbs have chip-based anecdotes about vaguely notable figures of UK politics from the last few decades?

Not chips but a long time ago, George Galloway asked to share my table in the busy cafe at Aberdeen Airport and then went-on to inhale a pie in possibly the most disgusting manner I have ever seen.

 

[pogofish]

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 remember when he started his Scottish produce thing - initially he went after Sainsbury and they did respond positively, stocking a lot more Scottish produce.

In return, he started shopping there much more often. Indeed, I'd often see his official car and driver waiting outside and meet him doing his shopping at my local store on Friday nights/Saturdays on his way back to Strichen or wherever for the weekend.

 

[Combustible]

Not chips but a long time ago, George Galloway asked to share my table in the busy cafe at Aberdeen Airport and then went-on to inhale a pie in possibly the most disgusting manner I have ever seen.

???

 

[steeplejack]

Salmond's last speech a couple of hours before his death. Quite eerie, really- a compendium of lines I've heard from him many times in the past. And like many of the social-democratic pro-democracy lines, uncomfortably antiquated in a populist, post-digital era.

He really doesn't look well and is huge compared to the last time I saw him on TV around covid times.

 

[tim]

Are you a member of the Thought Police? Why are you going through all my past posts?

It's what most people posting here do when trying to call someone out.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Someone was suggesting that the RAF should fly his body home... who would bear the cost of hiring a Galaxy?

 

[Idris2002]

Someone was suggesting that the RAF should fly his body home... who would bear the cost of hiring a Galaxy?

Are you lads deep-frying galaxies now?

 

[danny la rouge]

Are you lads deep-frying galaxies now?

It’s a Ford people carrier. You could only deep fry a Smart car say.

 

[Fedayn]

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

Oh, I am shocked, I see Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh, the ex Tory, Labour SNP and now Alba member was with Alex on his trip abroad.......

 

[skyscraper101]

It’s what he would’ve wanted

Alex Salmond died 'while trying to open bottle of ketchup', says eyewitness

Mr Salmond was reportedly helping the Alba Party chair open a bottle of ketchup when he suffered a heart attack and died during lunch

www.standard.co.uk

 

[danny la rouge]

It’s what he would’ve wanted

Alex Salmond died 'while trying to open bottle of ketchup', says eyewitness

Mr Salmond was reportedly helping the Alba Party chair open a bottle of ketchup when he suffered a heart attack and died during lunch

www.standard.co.uk

A mundane end.

 

[andysays]

It’s what he would’ve wanted

Alex Salmond died 'while trying to open bottle of ketchup', says eyewitness

Mr Salmond was reportedly helping the Alba Party chair open a bottle of ketchup when he suffered a heart attack and died during lunch

www.standard.co.uk

If only his hosts had provided one of these



he might still be with us

 

[JimW]

Bad living will always ketchup with you in the end.

 

[Wilf]

A mundane end.

Famous Last words:
'Bugger Bognor'
'This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death'
'For fucks sake, haven't you got any of those little sachet things?'

 

[Rompipalle]

Famous Last words:
'Bugger Bognor'
'This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death'
'For fucks sake, haven't you got any of those little sachet things?'

"A truck..."