Alex Salmond To Quit...

[Jomlett]

BBC News - Alex Salmond to quit as Scottish First Minister http://bbc.in/1v09Ujb

[lady-janine]

well he can't be first minister now can he. the other position? he'll just go and sulk or listen to all the pleas asking him to return.

[Bazile]

This was a decision that he must have deleberated over for ages before yesterdays vote , and would have decided that this was theb course of action he would take if it was a no vote .

So , although a bit suprising , it's not really - if you know what i mean

[Peter Pedant]

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Salmond resigns - great !! note how they will elect his successor

who asked the Scots ? - nope first he gets elected by his party
and then goes along to Parliament in Holyrood, says - to the hacks and placemen he finds there - Hi I am your new leader
and they say OK

such are the men of the people

[Peter Pedant]

el jay - yes he could go on
Home didnt resign when de Gaulle vetoed our entry to the common market in 1962 did he ?
or did he ?

[Obiter]

So Salmon(d) may be replaced by Sturgeon? Don't you think that's a bit fishy?

[-Talbot-]

So , although a bit suprising , it's not really - if you know what i mean



Yeah I agree it is hardly surprising but I am shocked by it.

[Obiter]

Home wasn't PM at the time, it was MacMillan.

[Peter Pedant]

// I can't see Sturgeon advancing the cause, more likely she'll cause it to collapse. //

Great I hope she is elected then

[jno]

I don't think he was under any obligation to go, any more than any other politician is expected to quit when policies don't work out (the idea of any English politician doing this...). But he may feel he's done all he can.

[lady-janine]

nonsense. he just fancies the pension and is having a flounce. should have stayed to see the scots get what has been promised.

[Peter Pedant]

Mac the knife ( Macmillan the prime mininster ) resigned over his prostate innit ?

People believed an enlarged prostate in an old man was due to excessive erm kissing young girls. Satyriasis is the latin word.

In fact history shows it was Dorothy his wife who was the one who was sc++wing around

Lord Boothby in particular who liked men almost as much as he like women

Hey those were the days !

[andy-hughes]

I am surprised - bet Cameron would not have gone if the Yes voye had won!

"... I am in the best position ...." drone .....waffle .... flannel ....

[Bazile]

On behalf of Mr Salmond - i demand a recount

[ChillDoubt]

Bit sudden TBH but it's his decision alone, just a shame for him it had to be in such circumstances.
Whilst never my favourite politician by any stretch one had to admire the passion he had for his country and no doubt politics in Scotland will benefit from the legacy he has undoubtedly brought about in the wake of promises of more power from Westminster.

[Wharton]

Before you all get your underwear in a fankle over this, just remember that the SNP is still in power in Scotland.

[Jomlett]

Salmond said: ‘The position that we are in now, that Scotland is in now is redolent of opportunity... I think the situation is redolent with opportunity and political progress for the country.’

Asked about personal responsibility and failures, Salmond said: “45% of the vote, 1.6m votes, is a remarkable political development”, but he felt that what he was doing was the most “assured” way to take responsibility.

He said the replacement new first minister should be in place by mid-November .

[jno]

a fair obituary, ChillDoubt.

I wonder if he'd have kept his job if the vote had been Yes, or if voters would have concluded he'd done his job and chucked him out (like Churchill).

[Jomlett]

Salmond on his resignation: "Obviously I would not have made this decision if there had been a Yes vote"