Dear All
At some point in your life, you start new chapters, it
happens to everyone, one thing doesn’t pan out and you move on to something
else. When Alex Salmond among others in the SNP lost their seats at the General
Election, it sent shockwaves through the SNP.
In the space of two years, the new party of the
establishment had taken a massive hit as the SNP as a party lost the trust and
respect of the voters. In some cases new SNP MPs saw their previous share of
the vote fall dramatically.
In Glasgow ,
the SNP lost the seat of Glasgow North East by a mere 242 votes to Paul
Sweeney, in other places like Glasgow South West and Glasgow East, the SNP held
on by their finger tips.
When the news that Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson had lost
their seats along with Tasmina Ahmed Shiekh, I must admit I was over the moon,
if anyone deserved a Michael Portillo moment, these three chancers certainly
did. On a personal note, in Glasgow North East, the SNP Candidate Anne
McLaughlin crashed and burned, it was a campaign which I gave up all to see her
go down in flames!
Salmond has went to try his hand at entertainment which we
now see includes TV, the major and minor home grown TV stations in the UK
aren’t touching him with a bargepole so Alex has signed up to the Russian
Channel.
A major error of judgment given he is a privy council, but
hey, a guy has got to earn a coin hasn’t he, he is too old to start an
apprenticeship, and too old for labouring as well. Instead we see Alex Salmond
doing what he does best, talk about how wonderful he is on his new show ‘The
Alex Salmond Show’. You might think that having spent so much time in the House
of Commons and Holyrood that Salmond would be heaving with top weight
politicians but sadly for him, this isn’t the case.
The news is that Salmond is facing TV boycott as Commons
Speaker John Bercow pulls out, Bercow who appeared at Salmond’s stage show
doesn’t want to be on RT, the Russian channel. And the good news just keeps on
coming, apparently his ‘friends’, his former cult members in the SNP
Government, they don’t want to appear either as it is considered an error of
judgment.
RT is an interesting channel, I have seen some stuff and it
is very good, but when you view RT, you have to accept that it is widely seen
as a mouthpiece of President Vladimir Putin. The channel is registered in the US as an arm of
the Russian Government, there are of course some very nice Russians
kicking about the place, I know two in passing, they aren’t interested in
politics.
It seems that the boycott of Salmond’s new show is the ‘in
thing to do’ as former Prime Minister David Cameron had been asked by
Salmond in a phone call last week to appear on the show. If you watch Westminster regularly you
will remember that David Cameron has no love at all for the SNP, in fact during
PMQs, he once mouthed silently to Angus Robertson…. ‘will you fuck off’.
No love there methinks.
A senior Conservative hits the nail on the head
when he said:
"It shows Salmond's total lack of self awareness. There's
no way the former PM would do a Russia Today chat show with the nationalist
leader, and Dave quite rightly told Alex to get stuffed. Alex is
going after a lot of Tories and getting a lot of knock backs."
Yesterday Kenny MacAskill said that the UK Conservative Government
should have given Alex Salmond a ‘job’, so he wouldn’t have needed to go on RT,
this begs the question, why isn’t Nicola Sturgeon not giving Alex Salmond a
job?
Finally, how long will it be before the Alex Salmond Show
resembles a ‘poundland’ Borat episode?
You have to wonder as well, how long it will be before Alex Salmond and Tasmina Ahmed Shiekh realises their show is well and truly over!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
2 comments:
Talk about a long death rattle!
Nothing like the old "avocado rule", is there?
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