I mean fair enough if you want to have a go at someone for being out of touch or whatever, but it's out of line to call them a coward just because of their upbringing. Yes well Mr Eck. called for the Faculty of Advocates, of which Mr Jackson is the dean, to start an investigation. Regan has also backed Salmonds call for a rethink of Sturgeons policy to rejoin the European Union after independence a cast iron commitment of the Scottish government since the Brexit referendum. Driven by one overarching political imperative, those two contrasting characters were a study in harmony, leading an increasingly disciplined movement ever closer to its dream. Scottish Lib Dems leader Alex Cole-Hamilton said: "Alex Salmond spent years in the pay of Putin's propaganda channel. Yes I have a privileged background but it is something you try to return to the world.. Miss Sturgeon may also come to reflect that, unlike Tony Blair and Gordon Brown who formed a similar pact a decade earlier, she and Mr Salmond worked together highly effectively and, in the early years at least, got along famously. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The Alba Party, led by Mr Salmond, was founded in February 2021 and two Nationalist MPs immediately defected to it. This underlines that while the court case is over, there are many matters which are far from settled. Do not sell or share my personal information. 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Her dining companion was Mr Salmond, the former SNP leader who had sworn blind he had no intention of entering the contest to replace John Swinney, the man who had succeeded him in 2000. 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I find it rather amusing to see that he thinks that Boris was elected as the electorate liked what he said and not because he was a Bullingdon boy? He has accused posh boy David Cameron of running away from a debate with First Minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon. Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland and ex-leader of the SNP, could be inappropriate and a bugger to work for, his own defence lawyer told the Mr Skene said: I did go to Eton 50 years ago and to be honest I have forgotten all about that. In 2023, His Personal Year Number is 5. Ultimately, political obituarists may conclude, neither member of this most potent of partnerships enjoyed the same success in their solo work as they did together. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It comes as new State of the Union report by the Onward think tank based on in-depth polling by Hanbury Strategy found some pro-independence voters in Scotland believe the pandemic should take precedence over another referendum this year. The chief constable who authorised the abortive investigation of Salmond, one of the biggest in the history of Police Scotland involving 400 witness interviews, was one Iain Livingstone. Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, has said she has no intentions of working with Mr Salmond, even if his party does get seats in the Holyrood parliament, after the Alba Party leader suggested she would have to work with others in the cause of Scottish independence. Alex Salmond is a person like that. Besides his wife, Moira, she was one of a handful in his inner circle who could get away with teasing him. The party was registered The jury's verdict was welcomed by SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC, who said that there were now "serious questions about the background to these cases". We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. Alexs resignation does nothing to remove his power base within the party, a senior SNP figure told the Mail at the time. According to the website Clan Skene, he was contacted in the early 1990s by members of the US-based Clan Skene Association who wanted to know who might be the head of the clan given the demise of the direct line of the Skenes of Skene family many years ago. A few miles away in Edinburgh, Miss Sturgeon was talking to journalists too, assuring them her government would defend its position vigorously and insisting that complaints against Mr Salmond could not be ignored or swept under the carpet. He resigned from the SNP in August 2018, but made clear at the time that he intended to apply to rejoin the party that he led for a total of 20 years once he had cleared his name. While Mr Murrell denied the claims, Mr Salmond clearly gave them credence, which raised questions about Miss Sturgeons own role in the by now highly toxic affair which threatened to rip the party asunder. Scottish politician who was the leader of the Scottish National Party, and elected First Minister of Scotland in 2007. After resigning in 2014, his A scathing Mr Salmond claimed the divisive issue was undermining the drive for Scottish independence. Its leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, have anyway said they will walk if the GRR Bill is scrapped or changed which, under Regan,it would be. Their double act was so successful the pair were largely responsible for breaking the electoral system in that poll. After six total hours of pacing and speculation, the inhabitants of court three were utterly silenced. Those same bastards are the same class as those who send hundreds of thousands of our young out to get killed during WWI and then when it was finished sent the troops in against those that returned and wanted better work, housing and food conditions. Okay, so it wasn't the greatest thing Salmond has ever said, but doesn't Milliband (and most of labour), call Cameron et al Posh Boys all the time? And so the psychodrama rumbled on. His education: Edinburgh College of Commerce ,University of St Andrews. 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Finally, Ash Regan has dropped Nicola Sturgeons much criticisedde facto referendum and started talking instead about a voter empowerment mechanism. Alex Salmonds pro-independent Alba Party has been hit by shock new polling, which puts his party on course to take zero seats in next months Holyrood election. The racing certainty that, four years on, Miss Sturgeon was about to lose in her leadership battle with Roseanna Cunningham whose ambitions Mr Salmond was eager to thwart convinced him to renege on his promises. The Alba Party chief came under-fire after Russia There was no love lost between Mr Salmond and Miss Cunningham back in 2004. He resigned last week provoking a flurry of conspiracy theories. Is this the end of Miss Sturgeon's dream of Scottish independence? In 2015, when a tetchy Mr Salmond told then Conservative minister Anna Soubry in the Commons to behave yourself, woman!, Miss Sturgeon leapt to his defence, saying: There is no man I know who is less sexist., Two years later when he launched his Edinburgh Festival Fringe talk-show with a toe-curling blue joke referencing both Theresa May and Miss Sturgeon herself, she said: I think I would know if he was sexist, and emphatically he is not.. It is worth noting that Alba has already achieved, in three days, approaching half the level of support of the Liberal Democrats, a party which has existed for over a century.. De benoemingen werden gedaan "ter gelegenheid van de viering van de verjaardag van Zijne Majesteit." Scotland - all things Scotland, Scottish and Scot here. It stated: Investigation of family history resulted in the Lord Lyon accepting the opinion that the Skenes of Pitlour were indeed the senior surviving family of the name of Skene. He was converted to green energy in the late noughties and was a prominent advocate of carbon capture and storage. Mr Jackson adds: "OK, it's not right but it's not war crimes.this is hardly sexual. Her former mentor - who was a close ally before Ms Sturgeon became First Minister - welcomed her departure. The Sunday Times said the incident happened on a busy train before the ex-SNP leader's trial concluded. The footage of Mr Jackson emerged as the nine women who made sexual assault allegations against Mr Salmond said they had been left "devastated" after he was cleared in court. He is also a voice of warning for global warming and has pushed for Scotland to be more conscious of emissions and the efforts to create forms of renewable energy. But these will be debated in the political arena, not the legal one. But Alex Salmond has been travellingaround Scotland for the last two years arguing that it would be preferable and quicker to join the European Free Trade Area, EFTA. Former First Minister Alex Salmond has suspended his talk show on Russian state broadcasting channel RT. "I think he was a nasty person to work fora nightmare to work for.". The policy, he said, had been pursued with little consideration of the drawbacks. Isn't that more or less a standard insult to the Tories? The charges were all alleged to have happened while Mr Salmond was serving as Scotland's first minister, with several alleged to have happened at the first minister's official Bute House residence in Edinburgh. He was filmed telling an audience at a Burns Night dinner: "Thirty years of gradually building, building, building until we get independence over 50% and then thrown away with some self-indulgent nonsense which even if it was right - which it is nae - would hardly be tactically the most astute manoeuvre when we're meant to be taking Scotland to its next date with destiny.". WebDe 1947 King's Birthday Honours waren benoemingen door veel van de Commonwealth Realms van koning George VI in verschillende orden en onderscheidingen om goede On 9 November 2017, the RT channel (formerly known as Russia Today) announced he would host a show called The Alex Salmond Show on the network. Salmond's successor as Scotland's first minister and SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, said she would have advised against his decision to broadcast for the channel. Even during a highly technical discussion of north sea oil on the Today programme this morning, Alex Salmond managed to find room for a spot of class war. A further charge of sexually assaulting a 10th woman had previously been dropped by prosecutors. Out-of-touch posh boys, &c? He thanked the jury and his supporters, and voiced fears about the coronavirus crisis. The analogy flatters the politicians but, like Lennon and McCartney, they needed each other. This inappropriate behaviour translated as assault with intent to rape in one of 14 charges he later faced in court. Alex Salmond has been acquitted of attempted rape and a series of sexual assaults, including one with intent to rape. More irritatingly still, perhaps, he was often right it was he who this month characterised his successors gender recognition dispute with the Westminster Government as a hill to die on for his former party. Unfortunately [he then names two of the women accusers} say it's sexual. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Not an issue where Scottish support is A divided and B that division of opinion is against you rather than for you.'. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. Mr Jackson said he "deeply regrets the distress and difficulties which have been caused" by the footage. In November 2012, he became the longest serving First Minister of Scotland. They fell out after Mr Salmond was accused of a string of sex offences. Their friendship, clearly, was dead. But her policy agenda is pure Alex Salmond. She added: "I am a strong believer in a rigorous, robust independent judicial process where complaints of this nature, if they come forward, are properly and thoroughly investigated, due process takes its course and a court reaches a decision. The advocate hails from Spean Bridge in the Highlands but works in Edinburgh and has registered an address in Melrose in the Borders for the election. By Brian Wheeler. Now The Herald reported that furniture used on the production was being sold off. The not proven verdict is an unusual and highly controversial feature of the Scottish legal system which in practice is exactly the same as a verdict of not guilty. Mr Salmond added: "Whatever nightmare I have been through over the last two years it is as nothing compared to the situation we are all going through. More information on Alex Salmond can be found here. Heady days for the Salmond/Sturgeon partnership, a political force so formidable it stood on the brink of bringing the United Kingdom itself crashing down at their feet. netting more than 300,000 from their deal with RT. But he said most people who he went to school with were not like that. Mr Salmond maintained he was innocent throughout the two-week trial. SNP voter Kirsty said: I think Scotland needs to fix Scotland first, 100 per cent., But pro-independence Labour voter Patrick said: I think you should just go for it, get it over and done with and we can work out our own problems instead of everybody elses., Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Her coronation as party leader and First Minister in the weeks following the referendum was, after all, largely on the strength of a power base borrowed from her predecessor. Now she is history. And yet, if she is soon to make good on her promise to produce a memoir, she will be forced to confront the reality that he was the towering figure of her political life, her mentor, her benefactor even her guardian angel. There is no systemic anti-poshness in the British establishment, look at how many privately educated people there are in positions of power (and that has fuck all to do with popularity as Nelson seems to think but is entirely down to the fact that politics is all about connections), there is however a systemic anti-working class element and a demonisation of the working class in the media. It would be the Salmond show redux. Web169k members in the Scotland community. Would the SNP even have formed a government? 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