Alex Salmond is growing into a parody of the gruff, chippy, fight-picking “Hey Jimmeh! Scotsman from central casting.
Scotland’s First Minister roams the world like a Saturday-night drunk looking for excuses to bruise his knuckles. For his latest brawl he has accused Tony Blair of ignoring the Scottish Government and its legal system by signing an agreement with Muammar Gaddafi over prisoner transfers from Britain to Libya – an agreement, hissed Mr Salmond, which could lead to the Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, being switched from Scotland to his homeland.
It marks the latest of myriad whinges from a man famous for having a temper shorter than a Paris Hilton jail stay.
Mr Salmond can be relied upon to find three new things to beef about before breakfast. He has whined about Scotland not having its own Olympic team, has demanded a separate Scottish version of the BBC TV Six O’Clock News, bleated about getting Trident out of Scotland, criticised Tony Blair for sending troops into Kosovo, demanded a fat Scottish share of North Sea oil revenues, and queried why Scottish ministers cannot lead the British delegation at EU meetings.
If there is an opportunity to moan self-pityingly about how cruelly Scotland is oppressed by its southern neighbour, then Alex Salmond is the man to grab it.
No doubt Mr Salmond is already exploring reasons to grow indignant about yesterday’s snubbing of the Munro Society by surveyors who declared a Scottish mountain not tall enough to join the Munro list of 3,000ft-high mountains.
Would that mark the peak of Mr Salmond’s pique? Unlikely. Mike Tyson may soon be the only opponent left who is worthy of Mr Salmond’s sparring skills. Now that is a bout we’d all pay to watch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 906974.ece
What they really think
What they really think
An ye harm none, do what ye will....
What they really think
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CHOOKIE, randall here.
I feel that you must be a very sad man - or have little to worry about?
As Annabelle Goldie said to our dear friend McConnel when within a week of the election he demanded to know why he (Alex Salmond) hadn't done this, that and the next thing.
Give him - and his party - time, please.
My daughter lived in Linlithgow, his home town, he is a "TRUE BLACK BITCH" said one reporter. I had to go there to find out what that meant.
I can only say, as I have said to several Glasgow and Edinburgh acquaintances who were very outspoken about "BIGMOUTH" he has been an excellent MP for Buchan and the SNP members before him.
I, personally, have had to use him many times to fend off th wrath of Westminster and Whitehall against whom I could never defend myself and he did so ably and with good results for me.
At present he is enquiring into why my fuel bill should have jumped 63.3% - or is it just because, as my doctor has written to them, that both my wife and I were extremely sick and housebound for four months from December onwards.
The so-called "Oil Boom" has been extremely damaging to us in Buchan with the house prices shooting up 400% in TEN MONTHS in 1972/3.
Needless to say the wages didn't follow.
If you have neither needed the man, met or spoken with him I suggest that you moderate your attack just a wee bit.
McQuarrie was the only none SNP MP we had since the days of Robert Boothby and I have yet to meet anyone who had anything done for them by him.
Boothby is an enigma, holds the record for always being re-elected. A Tory, yet voted in repeatedly by mainly Labour voters.
In fact he voted so often against the Tories that Churchill invited him to take a seat on the other side of the house. He also asked him to choose between the wireless/TV and the House of Commons.
He always voted for what he knew his constituents need most.
I believe that Alex Salmond will continue to do so.
I always ask my wife to switch on that "Foreign News" i.e. BBC TV NEWS. How much of it has to do with Scotland - three minutes in the hour at the most.
In the morning anyway, when you really want to know what has happened whilst you were sleeping.
"The old order changeth saith the prophet and behold all things are new."
Shall we just wait and hope for better things because as far as I am concerned they could not get much more worse for me and my wife.
God Bless you all.
randall.
:)
CHOOKIE, randall here.
I feel that you must be a very sad man - or have little to worry about?
As Annabelle Goldie said to our dear friend McConnel when within a week of the election he demanded to know why he (Alex Salmond) hadn't done this, that and the next thing.
Give him - and his party - time, please.
My daughter lived in Linlithgow, his home town, he is a "TRUE BLACK BITCH" said one reporter. I had to go there to find out what that meant.
I can only say, as I have said to several Glasgow and Edinburgh acquaintances who were very outspoken about "BIGMOUTH" he has been an excellent MP for Buchan and the SNP members before him.
I, personally, have had to use him many times to fend off th wrath of Westminster and Whitehall against whom I could never defend myself and he did so ably and with good results for me.
At present he is enquiring into why my fuel bill should have jumped 63.3% - or is it just because, as my doctor has written to them, that both my wife and I were extremely sick and housebound for four months from December onwards.
The so-called "Oil Boom" has been extremely damaging to us in Buchan with the house prices shooting up 400% in TEN MONTHS in 1972/3.
Needless to say the wages didn't follow.
If you have neither needed the man, met or spoken with him I suggest that you moderate your attack just a wee bit.
McQuarrie was the only none SNP MP we had since the days of Robert Boothby and I have yet to meet anyone who had anything done for them by him.
Boothby is an enigma, holds the record for always being re-elected. A Tory, yet voted in repeatedly by mainly Labour voters.
In fact he voted so often against the Tories that Churchill invited him to take a seat on the other side of the house. He also asked him to choose between the wireless/TV and the House of Commons.
He always voted for what he knew his constituents need most.
I believe that Alex Salmond will continue to do so.
I always ask my wife to switch on that "Foreign News" i.e. BBC TV NEWS. How much of it has to do with Scotland - three minutes in the hour at the most.
In the morning anyway, when you really want to know what has happened whilst you were sleeping.
"The old order changeth saith the prophet and behold all things are new."
Shall we just wait and hope for better things because as far as I am concerned they could not get much more worse for me and my wife.
God Bless you all.
randall.
:)
What they really think
For your information Randall, that was not anything I wrote - or could have written -that is the leader article in todays' London Times (supposedly an impartial newspaper).
Personally, although not a member of the SNP, I am a Republican, a Socialist and a Nationalist, but I have personal and family reasons for disliking the hierarchy of the SNP. However, I am in complete agreement with their aims.
'S mise le meas
Chookie
Personally, although not a member of the SNP, I am a Republican, a Socialist and a Nationalist, but I have personal and family reasons for disliking the hierarchy of the SNP. However, I am in complete agreement with their aims.
'S mise le meas
Chookie
An ye harm none, do what ye will....
What they really think
Chookie;633952 wrote: Alex Salmond is growing into a parody of the gruff, chippy, fight-picking “Hey Jimmeh! Scotsman from central casting.
Scotland’s First Minister roams the world like a Saturday-night drunk looking for excuses to bruise his knuckles. For his latest brawl he has accused Tony Blair of ignoring the Scottish Government and its legal system by signing an agreement with Muammar Gaddafi over prisoner transfers from Britain to Libya – an agreement, hissed Mr Salmond, which could lead to the Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, being switched from Scotland to his homeland.
It marks the latest of myriad whinges from a man famous for having a temper shorter than a Paris Hilton jail stay.
Mr Salmond can be relied upon to find three new things to beef about before breakfast. He has whined about Scotland not having its own Olympic team, has demanded a separate Scottish version of the BBC TV Six O’Clock News, bleated about getting Trident out of Scotland, criticised Tony Blair for sending troops into Kosovo, demanded a fat Scottish share of North Sea oil revenues, and queried why Scottish ministers cannot lead the British delegation at EU meetings.
If there is an opportunity to moan self-pityingly about how cruelly Scotland is oppressed by its southern neighbour, then Alex Salmond is the man to grab it.
No doubt Mr Salmond is already exploring reasons to grow indignant about yesterday’s snubbing of the Munro Society by surveyors who declared a Scottish mountain not tall enough to join the Munro list of 3,000ft-high mountains.
Would that mark the peak of Mr Salmond’s pique? Unlikely. Mike Tyson may soon be the only opponent left who is worthy of Mr Salmond’s sparring skills. Now that is a bout we’d all pay to watch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 906974.ece
And thats exactly why the scottish people voted him in, i doubt he will concern himself with the Munro society or Mr Tyson tho, i would have thought the times could have come up with something better than that, like where's he getting all the money from that he intends to spend.
Scotland’s First Minister roams the world like a Saturday-night drunk looking for excuses to bruise his knuckles. For his latest brawl he has accused Tony Blair of ignoring the Scottish Government and its legal system by signing an agreement with Muammar Gaddafi over prisoner transfers from Britain to Libya – an agreement, hissed Mr Salmond, which could lead to the Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, being switched from Scotland to his homeland.
It marks the latest of myriad whinges from a man famous for having a temper shorter than a Paris Hilton jail stay.
Mr Salmond can be relied upon to find three new things to beef about before breakfast. He has whined about Scotland not having its own Olympic team, has demanded a separate Scottish version of the BBC TV Six O’Clock News, bleated about getting Trident out of Scotland, criticised Tony Blair for sending troops into Kosovo, demanded a fat Scottish share of North Sea oil revenues, and queried why Scottish ministers cannot lead the British delegation at EU meetings.
If there is an opportunity to moan self-pityingly about how cruelly Scotland is oppressed by its southern neighbour, then Alex Salmond is the man to grab it.
No doubt Mr Salmond is already exploring reasons to grow indignant about yesterday’s snubbing of the Munro Society by surveyors who declared a Scottish mountain not tall enough to join the Munro list of 3,000ft-high mountains.
Would that mark the peak of Mr Salmond’s pique? Unlikely. Mike Tyson may soon be the only opponent left who is worthy of Mr Salmond’s sparring skills. Now that is a bout we’d all pay to watch
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/commen ... 906974.ece
And thats exactly why the scottish people voted him in, i doubt he will concern himself with the Munro society or Mr Tyson tho, i would have thought the times could have come up with something better than that, like where's he getting all the money from that he intends to spend.
What they really think
Chookie;634032 wrote: For your information Randall, that was not anything I wrote - or could have written -that is the leader article in todays' London Times (supposedly an impartial newspaper).
Personally, although not a member of the SNP, I am a Republican, a Socialist and a Nationalist, but I have personal and family reasons for disliking the hierarchy of the SNP. However, I am in complete agreement with their aims.
'S mise le meas
Chookie
It would have been helpful if you had put the piece in quotes so as to make it clear the words were your own. highlight what you want in quotes and you will see on the tool bar a little yellow box hat will do it for you.
You will find down south many do not realise we have a separate legal system.
The Times is hardly impartial being owned by Rupert Murdoch's media group who also own the Sun and the Daily Record -hence the diatribes against the SNP in both of those latter papers. Personally I think the vitriol was one of the reasons the SNP did so well. Anything Murdoch supports can't be in the public interest.
The labour hierarchy are wetting themselves as even the dimmest of them realise if Scotland stops voting Labour they will never not get in to power. Since Labour is no longer even nominally socialist a lot of their sore support is going.
Personally I am ambivalent since I am hard pushed to think of any Scottish politician I would trust but they can't be any worse than what we have had until recently. Will be interesting to see how things turn out. Reckon Salmond has a good approach-prove they can govern first and then ask for a referendum.
Personally, although not a member of the SNP, I am a Republican, a Socialist and a Nationalist, but I have personal and family reasons for disliking the hierarchy of the SNP. However, I am in complete agreement with their aims.
'S mise le meas
Chookie
It would have been helpful if you had put the piece in quotes so as to make it clear the words were your own. highlight what you want in quotes and you will see on the tool bar a little yellow box hat will do it for you.
You will find down south many do not realise we have a separate legal system.
The Times is hardly impartial being owned by Rupert Murdoch's media group who also own the Sun and the Daily Record -hence the diatribes against the SNP in both of those latter papers. Personally I think the vitriol was one of the reasons the SNP did so well. Anything Murdoch supports can't be in the public interest.
The labour hierarchy are wetting themselves as even the dimmest of them realise if Scotland stops voting Labour they will never not get in to power. Since Labour is no longer even nominally socialist a lot of their sore support is going.
Personally I am ambivalent since I am hard pushed to think of any Scottish politician I would trust but they can't be any worse than what we have had until recently. Will be interesting to see how things turn out. Reckon Salmond has a good approach-prove they can govern first and then ask for a referendum.