Sturgeonland

[57vintage]

Don't hold back there cowboy ! He most certainly is a "marmite" politician always has been. But if folk are honest they'd have to concede Salmond was a most accomplished politician and he scared the holy sh1t out of WM. But the stich-up had the desired effect and finished him off in serious politics his sunset song if you like. Think my point was someone of his ilk and without the baggage is needed now.

Perhaps, but would a morally-sanitised version of him (a) be acceptable to those parliamentary members satisfied just to have the status and sinecure without actually achieving anything? (b) exist in nationalist circles nowadays?

Who do you have in mind?

[stewarty27]

Perhaps, but would a morally-sanitised version of him (a) be acceptable to those parliamentary members satisfied just to have the status and sinecure without actually achieving anything? (b) exist in nationalist circles nowadays?

Who do you have in mind?

Oh Jings !! ask the difficult question why don't you. I have absolutely no iidea. Does this person exist ? Nicola may have gone but her cabal remain so the last thing the Independence movement want is a continuity candidate like Angus H Robertson, Yousef arrogant beyond words, Keith Brown another continuity nobody.. Kate Forbes without the "Hell and Damnation " brigade might be OK certainly got the eye candy factor.. Colin Sim has effectively ruled himself out ... Fits Jo Grimond dein these days ? is there a Jo Junior ?

[57vintage]

Oh Jings !! ask the difficult question why don't you. I have absolutely no iidea. Does this person exist ? Nicola may have gone but her cabal remain so the last thing the Independence movement want is a continuity candidate like Angus H Robertson, Yousef arrogant beyond words, Keith Brown another continuity nobody.. Kate Forbes without the "Hell and Damnation " brigade might be OK certainly got the eye candy factor.. Colin Sim has effectively ruled himself out ... Fits Jo Grimond dein these days ? is there a Jo Junior ?

Thankfully, it’s not my problem, as is occasionally hinted at by the ageists. I’ll just have to deal with the consequenses of canny political blandness, timidity, and spin disguised as leadership. I backed out of it all in 1999 once the parliament was reconvened (with an energy-sapping postscript in 02-03 as Bush and Blair’s state terrorism disgusted and angered people) and tend to keep out of it now until some dick with an iPad rings the doorbell during an election campaign, and I pose the difficult questions.

I doubt that I’ll be around, if it ever happens, to see the end of western neo-liberalism and its appalling end products.