Well where will you be standing?

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This is another excellent comment from the Yours for Scotland comment section that deserves promotion to a main page feature. This comes from regular contributor Breeks.

WEBF, I don’t know the circumstances either, but I suspect it was the very decency and integrity of Alex Salmond which made him predictable, and thus vulnerable that heinous accusations about being a sex offender would oblige any decent MP to step down to clear their name. 

Salmond is old school, and cut from a different cloth than your modern political sleazebags for whom misconduct, lying, and depravity seems like a badge of honour. 

I also believe Alex Salmond had complete faith and trust in Nicola Sturgeon, and that all she had to do was steer the YES movement over the line. He had done all the heavy lifting. 

Sturgeon it would seem is quite literally a Manchurian Candidate type, who said and did all the right and dutiful things to earn the trust and confidence of those around her, but then turned, the moment she was in a position to do the optimum damage to the cause. It wasn’t a murderous assassination, but you will hardly find a more vicious political assassination than what she attempted on Alex Salmond.

She is a baby faced liar, a fraud, and a sociopath unburdened by either moral integrity or any sense of guilt; the essential prerequisites of a betrayer. There is no doubt whatsoever that she evades scrutiny, and that she is being protected by the same Establishment which so feared and vilified Salmond. 

But for me, the most damning condemnation is in her reaction to criticism, and the outrage her actions provoke. She bat’s away criticism or scrutiny as “daft” or “not valid ”, when sincere people are asking profoundly troubling questions of her. Don’t bat the question away, that’s patronising and rude. Answer the question.

Innocent people do not rely on screeds of redacted evidence, trumped up inquiries and behind the scenes collusion with conspirators. Innocent people do what Salmond did, they open themselves to scrutiny and squarely answer every accusation put to them. 

Salmond was guilty of nothing. Even the “sleepy cuddle” seems at it’s worst a misread signal between adults. Misinterpreted signals I can readily believe, good heavens just look at the circumstances the people were in, but the actions of a dangerous sexual predator? Crime?? Oh behave. Again, look at the man’s reaction. He took full responsibility for the situation, reacted spontaneously, denied nothing, and judged himself more harshly than the circumstances warranted. That’s how decent people react to their mistakes. 

And the other “charges”?? Killer heels setting off security? Flicking someone’s curls? Ok, now let’s talk about “daft” and “not valid” shall we? Even for a political hatchet-job, it’s water thin gruel. It’s actually closer testimony of how difficult it was for conspirators to make an accusation of sleaze sound credible against a squeaky clean decent individual like Alex Salmond. 

The truth will out one day. And while it might be making ripples in a smaller pond, we might all need to recalibrate what constitutes the archetypal political scandal, because the Watergate scandal of 1972 looks tepid and limp beside the plot to destroy Alex Salmond, wreck the Independence movement, and doom our Scottish Nation to ongoing subjugation and plunder.

Scotland, it’s not too late to realise we have a good’un in Alex Salmond. A great son of Scotland who is a patriot, gifted strategist, international statesman, and a fine ambassador for Scotland. For god’s sake, start listening to the man who would give his all for Scotland, and stop listening to the trolls and back stabbing troglodytes who are in it for themselves. 

I hope and pray that SALVO is going to give us the ammunition and drive to get Scottish Independence over the line, and I believe it will, but SALVO is only in a strategic position to make a difference because of the landscape that’s been carved out from bare rock by ALBA, Alex Salmond and the people who will give it all for Scotland.

SNP? And I mean the real party, the foot soldiers, not the gender freaks, ten-a-penny frauds and carpet baggers; who were you standing beside when the Treaty of Union was shredded?

MY COMMENTS

Breeks speaks plainly and directly and gets to the heart of the matter. Party Loyalty is an important thing in politics I understand that, but it can be abused by the unworthy. The people who rely on it to cover up serious wrongdoing habitually urge ”moving on” and “getting by” and calls for ”unity” to hope things are forgotten and they can escape scot free. In the case of Alex Salmond they badly miscalculated. They thought if they could create sufficient allegations, flimsy or not, maliciously contrived or not, one was bound to hit home and he would be finished. To their horror it didn’t and every charge failed. Operation Cover Up then became the priority. The judge weighed in to help by granting anonymity when it should have been charges of perjury she was raising, the First Minister took every opportunity to continue to smear the man who had just faced the most thorough investigation ever imagined for this level of supposed offence and had been cleared and she had even had the temerity to infer the jury got it wrong. The very bad news for those conspirators is that while the trial etc all finished some time ago, nobody is moving on, nobody is getting by and any hope of unity cannot occur until those responsible pay the full cost for their actions. That is the reality the SNP need to face, as each week passes more and more becomes known. If we all want unity, and we do, then the SNP must take the steps required against the people responsible. I know who they are so there is no doubt big numbers of SNP members know as well.They need to act because this will never go away until they do.

I am, as always

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47 thoughts on “Well where will you be standing?”

  1. “She is a baby faced liar”. I hope that was a typo and you meant BARE faced Liar Breeks, Because she went from fresh faced in 2014, to bags under her eyes in 2015, the wrinkles appear around 2017, & I have my own definition of what she could be called today, but I would probably get arrested for using it, knowing how she has Police Scotland in her pocket as well..

    I stood with the SNP for 50+years as a voter and door knocker, I eventually JOINED the SNP because of Alex Salmond, a man I trust in every aspect of life. I will NEVER again stand with Sturgeon, she is a dishonest charlatan, what she has done to Scotland can never be forgiven, but what she tried to do to Alex Salmond should see her rot in the jail cell she hoped he would be rotting in right now..

    I hope you are right that the TRUTH will out one day, But seeing & hearing Alex (still being too nice a guy) I doubt it. At least not while he is involved in Politics. I wish he would bring her down, bring them ALL down. I fear until she is found out we have NO chance of ever getting INDEPENDENCE. Too many take her LIES as Gospel Truths.

    WM will see to it she or her successor when she does finally move on, as I am sure she is contemplating that move right now, will be well rewarded for betraying this country..

    If people would just waken up, & see who it is putting all the hard work into freeing this country from WM, ALBA, ISP, SALVO, SSRG, NOW Scotland..Everyone working hard up & down the country and neither Sturgeon or her SNP CULT anywhere to be seen..

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    1. Spot-on comment K . I believe Alex may be hamstrung in what he could reveal about the true nature of the plot against him – the * Law * would be further twisted to prevent him doing so , with possible real legal consequences for him personally should he attempt to do so . It also appears he thinks it more strategically productive to avoid all-out war with * that mob * , though , in this I’m inclined to disagree . I respect his decision nonetheless .

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  2. A great article posted by Breeks.

    “Sturgeon it would seem is quite literally a Manchurian Candidate type, who said and did all the right and dutiful things to earn the trust and confidence of those around her, but then turned, the moment she was in a position to do the optimum damage to the cause.”

    If this is true we really need the evidence to be substantiated and published.

    In addition there are lots of rumours also about the FM’s personal life and this has led to her being compromised by those dark forces operating against Scotland’s freedom.

    If true, and whether kompromat or sleeper agent, this needs to be exposed forthwith.

    Otherwise far from being led up the hill and back down again a la Grand Old Duke of York Scotland will be following a Pied Piper figure up to the summit before leaping like lemmings off the sheer cliff edge.

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  4. Outstanding post, Breeks. Truth will out and the slow drip is now a steady stream. The contrast between the desperate fishing expedition on Salmond with the current spate of actual abusers/gropers all promoted on Sturgeon’s watch is is utterly damning. Any political leader with a moral compass would resign. The sooner this sham independence leader and her inner clique are forced out, the quicker the Yes movement can regain focus and direction.

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    1. Thanks for sharing that Sara, I’d have been on my feet clapping if I’d been there.

      But don’t go selling yourself short either. I think the SALVO data and resource is electric, and it’s going to be pivotal in the months ahead.

      For a start, if you wanted to sell a notion of Scotland to the Scottish people, you couldn’t ask for a better model than a Nation which had the Common Good for all at the very heart of its Constitution.

      For myself personally, the SALVO revelations are like a Rosetta Stone, a key to understanding, that’s allowing me to revisit so many elements of the Union and Scottish Constitution which never quite made 100% sense, but which now I suddenly see much, much clearer.

      You described a prenuptial agreement forever binding the Treaty of Union to the Claim of Right, but I think it’s gone further. The prenuptial agreement is actually right there, in the wedding vows; the agreed Articles of Union themselves.

      Article 19 defines how Scots Law and the Court of Session are to enjoy the same authority and privileges which they enjoyed before the Union. Fine. But that pre-Union authority for Scots Law wasn’t the same as English Law, and came from the people through the Claim of Right and Salvo Jure Cujuslibet. So right there, in Article 19, you have Scots Law indelibly codified and inseparable from the Treaty of Union, but you also have the Claim of Right indelibly codified and inseparable from Scots Law, because that’s where the authority for Scots Law came from before the Union.

      But it gets better. A prenuptial agreement might have fallen by the wayside under the “sweeper” Article 25 of the Treaty, ‘That all Laws and Statutes in either Kingdom, so far as they are contrary to, or inconsistent with the Terms of these Articles, or any of them, shall, from and after the Union, cease, and become void…

      But because that Prenuptial is actually implicit in the wedding vows, (and it’s not just Article 19, it’s elsewhere too), there is no question of the Claim of Right ceasing or becoming void. The Claim of Right is actually woven right through the Treaty of Union.

      The next intriguing bit is not just the “layers” to Article 19, but it might be the reason why we have an Article 19, and is it proof that the Scottish Estates knew exactly what they were doing, and were quite deliberate in getting Scottish Constitutional principles embedded into the Articles of Union, but hidden in plain sight so they made it to the final draft of the Treaty?

      Now maybe I’m over-thinking this, but you know, I’m not so sure that I am.

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      1. “Now maybe I’m over-thinking this, but you know, I’m not so sure that I am.”

        Yes you are.

        The Claim of Right is included in the Acts of Union to lock in the supremacy of Parliament and Protestant succession as applied to Scotland. England already had the 1701 Act of Succession and 1688 Bill of Rights (which, of course, formed the basis of the Scottish Claim of Right.)

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      2. WEBF- “The Claim of Right is included in the Acts of Union to lock in the supremacy of Parliament and Protestant succession as applied to Scotland.”

        No, the Claim of Right locks in the supremacy of the people of Scotland. It was clear in Article 1 of the Treaty that the Parliaments of England and Scotland would be replaced by the new Parliament of Great Britain, so asserting the supremacy of the Scottish Parliament would have been totally pointless, and wasn’t what was done, and the supremacy of the English Parliament wasn’t locked in or asserted either.

        Westminster always intended that the new GB Parliament was to be their own English Parliament subsuming Scotland, and did exactly that, but the Treaty doesn’t entitle them to do that, and it doesn’t entitle Westminster to assert England’s constitutional sovereignty over Scotland either. The arrogance and entitlement of the Westminster establishment acknowleges no bounds or limitations at all, and Scotland, along with many other countries, is the worse for that.

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      3. WEBF, you seem to be confusing the Scottish ‘Convention of the Estates’ which passed the 1689 Claim of Right with the Scottish Parliament which ratified the Treaty of Union. These were different bodies with different powers.

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    2. Just watched the whole talk last night, and it was so uplifting, thank you! And now I’m going to have to look for Robert Crawford’s book ‘Bannockburns’!

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  6. ” the process of petrification seems to have been greatly assisted by a highly dubious Crown Office, a very murky and somewhat complicit Lord Advocate, a strangely vexatious and asymmetrical Judiciary, a rancid and deeply suspicious Civil Service”

    This seems a rather good description of certain key features of colonial rule from Breeks which I have taken from an earlier btl comment but is equally relevant here I think. It is gradually becoming clearer what we are dealing with or, as George Osborne specifically termed as: ‘the arms of the British state in Scotland’ – i.e. Crown and Civil Service – thon erms whit aye hauds Scotlan ticht. In postcolonial theory such entities are regarded as the “watchdogs of colonialism” (Cesaire) whose main purpose is to protect the interest of the imperial power in a colonial territory.

    As colonialism is among other things ‘a moral sickness’ there is little evidence of any good faith on the part of the oppressor who is always plotting to block the peoples liberation by whatever means at its disposal. As Aime Cesaire put it: “there is an infinite distance between colonization and civilization (and) there is a law of progressive dehumanization with which henceforth on the agenda… there is – there can be – nothing but violence, corruption and barbarism. I almost forgot hatred, lying, conceit.”

    We might also remember that a colonial Cultural Hegemony (which is always inclusive of native elites) is devoid of human values and, as it comes under ever more intense pressure from a rightly impatient independence movement: “is condemned to become every day more snarling, more summarily barbarous.” Which brings us to the realisation that colonialism is ‘force’ and ‘geographic violence’, not forgetting ‘racism’ and ‘socio-linguistic prejudice’ and with ‘fascism at its root’. The word ‘oppression’ (or ‘doun-hauden’) therefore arguably well describes Scotland’s predicament and forms the main rationale for any indigenous peoples’ quest for independence, which is decolonisation and liberation from oppression.

    In the colonial environment, and also with regard to Mr. Salmond’s treatment, we may further note that: “a feature of the dependent psychology would seem to be that, since no one can serve two masters, one of the two should be sacrificed to the other. The most agitated of the colonialists….had a confused understanding of the essence of this psychology of sacrifice, and they demanded their victims” (M. Mannoni). Here the classical path trod “transforms saints into martyrs and saviours into scapegoats”, much as we see.

    The only way out, according to Albert Memmi, is through liberation of the people.

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    2. Nailed. And the only way that our people will seek liberation is by first recognising the true nature and scope of their doun hauden.

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  7. Why is the SNP full of gender Yahoo’s and perverts. This question has an easy answer, these people are open to blackmail ,bullying and coercive control of the Britsh state. This is why the SNP sit quietly abstaining and nodding complicit to Westminster rule. Sturgeon has surrounded herself with lacklustre people who haven’t got a clue they give away our powers without a fight or grumble. Why after the staring gun has been fired are the SNP not campaigning. Easy question they are not interested it’s, all a game to piss of the independence movement crush their dreams so well can all roll over and get our belly tickled by the British state.
    News for them the people are beginning to awaken. Soar Alba.

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  8. I’m totally with Breeks AS has been to hell and back if not further, yet he has remained very dignified throughout. I just hope this dreadful episode et al comes to light and those involved are punished severely. NS was handed the Independence movement on a plate with all the hard graft done and she blew it. Why, time will tell hopefully. Meanwhile we keep going onwards and upwards and do what we need do.

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  11. I’m not in the upper echelons on any party to know insiders but the Salmond stitch-up is blatantly obvious. I can’t see how the independence movement can be reconciled while those protected people are still operating. I detest them, and will not vote SNP whilst they are in power.

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  12. That was an an excellent piece Breeks. I couldn’t agree more with the Manchurian Candidate comparison. The problem that I see, comes down to – when will the manchurian candidate be unmasked? When will the dirty tricks be revealed? If it doesn’t happen soon by an internal coup, the information will be used,and explode onto the media by the unionist puppet masters just prior to a referendum/plebiscite.
    Should those of us based overseas be thinking about, if the relevant information came into our hands, publishing it abroad. That would involve exile for a few years.

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    1. This is 100% spot on. We can expect a continual drip-drip of scandal, and let’s face it – New SNP appears to have no shortage of gropers. (If only they dealt with these real sex pests in the same way they deal with manufactured ones, but we are where we are.)

      I don’t expect there to be a referendum, but on the off-chance, you can expect full details of the AS scandal to break the week before the vote, anonymity or not. Let’s face it, the powers-that-be are pretty good at not finding the source of leaks to newspapers when it suits them.

      AS might be the most magnanimous man on the planet, or he may as I suspect be at least 3 moves ahead of everyone else, but this boil needs to be lanced. The whole truth is the only thing that could open the eyes of the devoted disciples and get the movement back together.

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    2. Ngataki, that sound like an excellent idea. If a few of those based overseas were to publish it, what an impact it would have. Those of us who feel unable to vote for Independence, while NS and her fellow conspirators hold any power, would be thrown a lifeline.

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    3. I would rather it was exposed prior to the nation being being shafted by ‘our own side’ in a referendum or plebiscite. We have to rebuild and the sooner this clique are gone the better it will be for us and the sooner we will be independent. If it takes 10 years then so be it. We are in danger of being imprisoned.

      It is only my opinion but you can only get away with the political corruption that this government has got away with to date if you are strongly supported by areas of power that reside outside the Scots parliament. The consent of the institutions that the Crown agent, the top Polis and the permanent secretary are ultimately or covertly answerable to. Maybe that power is Nicola Sturgeon as first minister? Perhaps Scotland unbeknowns to us was always the perfect environment for political political gangsterism? But I doubt if she has that hold over them. The actions of the press over the past 5 years tends to make me go against that view. Why would they side with a genuine Scot Nat government when it tries to fit someone up? Was Murray Foote employed to run round the newspaper editors and convince them all to the wheesht for Indy or for something else?

      The idea proposed by some is that we cannot do it without the SNP. And this is proposed even by some of those former members who have left the SNP in disgust. The manner in which this trick is to be achieved is either by convincing the leadership to change course or by way of a massive clear out. It is inconceivable to some that Independence can be can ever be achieved by making use of another political party using alternative routes. In my opinion this is to be in denial about the criminality, corruption and rank bad character of the people involved in leading the SNP.. That is an example of what I mean when stating that we will continue to self harm in the political decisions we make until the facts are known. We need the details, the facts and we need all of it to be public knowledge.

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  15. Scottish independence represents an existential iceberg to the English ship-of-state and to every last hanger-on who sails within its rotting hull; the press-ganged excluded, of course.

    Threats of mutiny are summarily dealt with by selected petty-officers so as to maintain the anonymity of the bridge and wardroom and the perpetuation of their course.

    The mutinous, press-ganged Salmond may have climbed back onboard and escaped the sharks, but unaccompanied moonlight walks along the decks of this vessel remain inadvisable.

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  16. One of the aspects of our written Scottish Constitution, which if we can get back up and running, is that it automatically empowers us to clean up house, with regards state corruption, including that within the Fiscal Service, a very handy organisation that will be needed to get into gear quickly when we get our Indy back.

    With regards Manchurian Candidates… I’d be watching out for the recent star of Mystic Interdicts over on Luke Warm Dave. It’s all gone terribly quiet, and in the same time period, it appears £9million has been granted to the Scottish Media by Scot Gov. (Its not just butter that’s gone up in price…. Super duper Interdicts are extotionate these days.)

    The Quiet Man of Scottish Politics, one who knows where all the money is.

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    1. Daisy, just out of curiosity, do you have an idea on how much money Sturgeon has “re-directed” so far from the public purse to the media’s purse in the 7 years + she has been in power, and more importantly, to whom?

      Is there a shadowy third party who gets the cash and then they are expected to “distribute” it to the media?

      According to google, ten of Scotland’s major newspapers are owned by just three men: Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere and Frederick Barclay, which happen to be billionaires and not precisely suffering from liquidity problems… So who is getting the cash?

      Is there a pattern in the figures?

      Public money cannot just be transferred arbitrarily. It has to be done in the form of an exchange for some kind of product or service, so there must be some kind of signed agreement/contract somewhere, otherwise it could be construed as fraud.

      Do you have any idea what excuse she has been using to transfer that sort of money over and the justification for that increase in “price”? £9 million sounds like an awful lot.

      My concern is that we are told the money is going to the “Scottish media”, but what kind of media? For instance, are the channels used to pump up GRA and anti-women propaganda, the anti-independence “think tanks”, integrity initiative or the elements of the thought police going over the tweets of those selected for deselection also considered as part of the “media”?

      Has some of our public money been used by those infamous reporters to smear Mr Salmond on “newspapers” and TV?
      Wouldn’t be interesting to find out?

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      1. Hello Mia,

        You ask very pointed questions, to which I have no answers. It is well documented Scot Gov granted the media £3million nearer the start of Nikla’s reign. Around the time of Cryptic Interdicts it was up for renewal and the sum of £9 million was being rattled. I saw from a tweet on Grousebeater that this amount had been settled, but I’m not sure of his sources.

        As for money going to all the various media/communications sources to smear and besmirch and destroy the indy movement, if it didn’t come from there, it will come from somewhere else for sure.

        Not losing Scotland is England’s highest priority now.

        I’ve been doing some (extremely amaturish) ready reckoning re Scottish Energy exports to England and conservatively put it (in UK %s) at about 10% renewables and another 10% in gas which runs the Gas/Electic trubines in England and provides this additional 10% in electric energy. So, over and above our own needs, Scotland is providing rUK/England with 20% of UK’s total electric.

        12 million English people provided energy from Scotland. Again, conservatively speaking, at almost todays prices, if we received payment for it in Scotland it would amount to £2,000 per Scottish head.

        And I’m not going near the oil.

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      2. Mia I have been chasing this info but it is buried deep. I read an article in of all places the Orkney News about a committee that was discussing how much the media should get in this new round. It quoted the £9 million figure as what was being sought.

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  17. Interesting. My original question was why Salmond’s 2014 resignation was supposedly “secured”, however. Well before the court case.

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    2. “why Salmond’s 2014 resignation was supposedly “secured”, ”

      In my view because if he remained as leader of the SNP at the time of GE2015 SNP landslide either brexit would have never happened or Scotland would have been independent immediately after brexit was announced.

      If like me you suspect indyref was rigged, you know the British state never intended to deliver devo max, but they still used Brown and the press to amplify the faux Devo max message to con Scottish voters into believing they would get it , then it becomes far too obvious and predictable what kind of response the Scottish voters would deliver in the following GE, the first opportunity they had to take revenge on the liars and for many a chance to revert their vote.

      That they were worried about the voters’ response was more than obvious, otherwise they would not have bothered with doing polls on September and October 2014 on how successful the SNP would be in a GE that was over 7 months away.

      I do not know how they did it, but I am convinced they got him to resign to stop him leading that majority to obstruct their beloved brexit and to deliver independence, in the same way they stopped him returning to Westminster with targeted strategic voting (that funnily enough did not affect her, the actual leader of the party), stopped him returning to Holyrood with the complaints procedure, they got him to exit the SNP a couple of years later with the fabricated accusations and smears and finally attempted to finish him politically for good with that fabricated criminal case and the continuous smearing ever since.

      The SNP hired a poll (DRG Global) which was conducted from the 29 September to the 1st October 2014. The sample size was 1049 people. At that point Mr Salmond had already announced he was stepping down from the FM position and leadership of the SNP. Yet, if you look at the poll, he was still more trusted than Sturgeon among SNP voters. The ratings were close, but his were still slightly higher. Of those who voted SNP in 2010, 82% trusted him to stand up for Scotland’s interests. 77% trusted her. Of those who voted SNP in the EU election in 2014, 92% trusted him to stand for Scotland’s interests, 89% trusted her. Interestingly, of those who voted conservative in the 2010 Holyrood election, only 33% trusted Mr Salmond, while 40% trusted Sturgeon. Of those who voted conservative in the EU election 2014, 34% trusted Mr Salmond while 41% trusted her. I am not sure how being more trusted by your opponent is an endorsement to your credentials.

      It seems to me the pressure for Mr Salmond to resign did not come from SNP voters or its general membership. It came from somewhere else. That poll suggests voters and membership would have been more than happy to keep him as FM and lead Scotland to its independence with a landslide win in the GE2015.

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  18. I could not agree more, Alex Salmond is a thoroughly decent man and it breaks my heart that we have someone like Nicola Sturgeon set on breaking the back of the Independence movement, dreadful to say but I truly hope the people of Scotland will wake up nd see her for what she is, a true egomaniac

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  19. Sorry to be blunt, very blunt.
    We all agree, we always agree, but Sturgeon is still collecting votes to be weighed as her Labour predecessors once did.

    “I cannot do politics under someone else’s control.”
    Mikhail Prokhorov

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    1. Aye, you are right enough but they cannae stay there forever. False promises. At the moment I would imagine that it would be considered far too risky for a straight vote on it to happen. A general election used as a referendum? Don’t the SNP always fight elections on the basis that they will use the result to achieve Independence? i can see that made into a mess one way or another. it has to break at some point, 2024 is my guess. I am hoping fingers crossed they haven’t stitched us up by then.

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      1. Evidence of dissent. These sites are pro Scotland, have good information, informed opinion and they make a difference.

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    2. Clootie , I – like many others – believe the delivery of this kid-on Ref next year , or the opportunity to point the finger if/when it is rejected by the UKSC will be her cue for ” Exit Stage Right ( pursued by A LOT of angry bears ) ” : though she may hang-on till the next UKGE where the Plebiscite twist will be rejected out of hand by the English State and Scottish Unionists . Either way , she’s getting ready to bolt .

      One imponderable is whether or not she’ll be * allowed * to . If Scottish Independence is not damaged sufficiently after what will be the fiascos of a * Consultative * Ref or an unaccepted Plebiscite Election result , she may be * obliged * to hang-in until the damage is irreparable .

      Paranoid Conspiracy Theory ? Well , maybe , maybe not , who can say for sure ? My sense is she’s terrified of losing the protection being a ( self ) serving FM grants her ; when that is no longer the case who knows what skeletons may be stirring in the closet ?

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  21. We all know on this site (apart from haudit and daudit) that nicoliar is just that. A liar. All about me me me. She will always do what’s best for her/ me. Alex Salmond is a decent bloke. Always was and always will be. Few in number unfortunately. Life is full of people like her/me. That’s what makes it so harsh.

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  22. “The judge weighed in to help by granting anonymity when it should have been charges of perjury she was raising”

    I believe all complainants in sex abuse cases should have anonymity, as should the defendants unless proven guilty and they do not appeal the verdict. I doubt all of the alphabetties could be charged with perjury, he might have touched my bottom but could have been my back is vague enough to get away with it. However women H should definitely be facing charges. A more egregious case it would be hard to find frankly. And woman H would be enough to bring the whole conspiracy down should her identity be revealed to those who do not know it…

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  23. I have read that some people believe woman H should be offered protection from the charge of perjury in return for her telling the truth and opening up the conspiracy. She is the centre of the problem for me. She lied and lied more and added some more to it and even the judge criticised her and her evidence. There should be no protection from the full force of the law for her or for the other alphabetties who lied in a court of law to have a man put in prison. They have remained silent over the years and will probably continue to do so. There should be no deals done, that is what has brought us to this point. It is possible they live in fear of the knock on the door, if one of them decides to tell the truth. Perhaps promises were made if people lied, new job offers, promotion or increased salaries but they were adults and well understood what they were being asked to do. There are no excuses for any of them from the top down. This issue is a cancer in Scotland that must be cut out before we can start to rebuild.

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    1. In a just world they should all see and have to deal with the full force of the law. Alex Salmond would have died in jail. How convenient for the brits. Nicoliar the chief one. It really beggars belief. Miss H in particular. This is Scotland not some outback yet sturgeon has pulled us down to this farce. She/ it is totally culpable. What an evil vindictive get she/it is.

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    2. “She is the centre of the problem for me.”

      It seems unlikely that the witnesses constructed (or fabricated) the ‘case’ which, given the evidence presented to Holyrood would appear to have been engineered by elites higher up in the (colonial) administration, though both groups seem to have immunity from prosecution, and those (still) holding powerful positions would hardly prosecute themselves. Conversely the native cannot expect justice in a colonial system. Witnesses, it might be argued, were used by the elites as tools, much as Breeks indicates:

      “the process of petrification seems to have been greatly assisted by a highly dubious Crown Office, a very murky and somewhat complicit Lord Advocate, a strangely vexatious and asymmetrical Judiciary, a rancid and deeply suspicious Civil Service”

      Perhaps we are merely describing the colonial reality, much as Aime Cesaire set out, in which “cruelty, mendacity, baseness, and corruption have sunk deep into the soul…”

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  24. Alf Baird. Many of us are guessing at what really happened around the AS trial as the suppression of defence evidence has been thorough. I agree that the witnesses may not have been party to the overall, bigger plan but equally, as adults, they must have recognised the paucity of their own, individual piece of evidence as a sexual assault. Miss H still bears the most responsibility as her evidence was ruled untrue by the judge. I wonder if ‘immunity from prosecution’ was decided at the outset or when the plan finally came together?

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