Salmonds Resignation Speech

[lindapalmara]

It was interesting to read a footnote to a report on the Press Conference yesterday, given by Alec Salmond at his Grace and Favour Residence, Bute House.

"His last act....... Ban on Press foes

When he finally surfaced to answer questions about the defeat, Alec Salmond hand picked the journalists allowed to attend - with Unionist Press turned away.

His Press conference, at which he announced hos resignation, had been due to start at 10am but at midday officials announced it would be by 'invitation only'. The Times, The Sun in S Outland, the Heald, Dundee Courier, Daily Record, PA, BBC and Sky were invited while The Mail, Financial Times, Telegraph and Express were barred and The Guardian boycotted the event."

Says it all really!!

[murraymints]

TYPICAL !!...so long Alec..haste ye back....NOT !

[Kromovaracun]

He seems to imply that Scots will continue pressing for independence. "The dream will never die."

Well... it kind of has. People said no.

[Khandro]

He was a one-trick pony and even his trick didn't come off, so retirement was inevitable.

[mushroom25]

//He seems to imply that Scots will continue pressing for independence. //

there will be further referendums. the unionists will have to win every time; the secessionists only have to win once.

[Gromit]

Barring the press was cowardly and unforgiveable. I have no objection to the man or his views, but ducking out of difficult questions is pathetic.

[Peter Pedant]

fat boy salmond ? yesterday's man .....


The speeches Brown has been making
you can see why he got to be PM

and look how he turned out - such a pity

[ludwig]

// The Mail, Financial Times, Telegraph and Express were barred //

Basically all the ones that have been sla88ing him off for the past 10 years. I don't blame him to be honest. Why indulge them when you no longer have to?

[lindapalmara]

When people are as biased and blinkered as you Ludwig, they do exactly as Salmond did. I know all Policitians put the spin on but this bloke does not want his lies revealed now he has lost. The newspapers are now lifting the stone and we can see what lies beneath! By resigning he is less likely to be held up to scrutiny for all those lies. Carefully choosing his attendees at his last press conference reveals this. It says something when even the Guardian Boycotted him in disgust!!

[Quizmonster]

Where do people get the strange notion that the idea of independence will now disappear in Scotland? At the next election there, due in 2016, the SNP will still be around and I'd be astonished if the word, 'independence', was absent from their manifesto. Wouldn't you? The result was 55/45, not 87/13; all that's required is a switch of 5 of these percentage points to make it eeksy-peeksy!
Cameron will be in no real position to say there'll be "no re-runs" or "It's all over for a generation if not a lifetime," if the SNP again have an overall majority.

[Zacs-Master]

Well, let's hope the SNP get all their ducks in a row and have thought the whole process thru next time. PPPPP.

[Peter Pedant]

// Where do people get the strange notion that the idea of independence will now disappear in Scotland? // QM writing from Arizona I think

yes, I thought it would be like the question of joining the common market.
You go on asking the question until you get the answer you like and then say it is settled for ever.

however the consensus appears to be - you've had your chance....

occurred in Quebec referendum - 56000 votes decided it - and the premier of Q who had lost his chance to be Head of his own State ! threw his toys out of the pram.

I think if you come to power as a one-trick horse and it doesnt work
you have to go to the knackers yard
I am not sure if you can credibly continue as "no means yes"

But you know best QM - you live in a country that accepted and absorbed secession and dissolution of the union without any problem in 1861 !
So clearly you can tell us how to do it all !!

[Zacs-Master]

Talking of throwing your toys out of the pram^^^^.

[lindapalmara]

Sorry Ludwig I try not to get personal but I hate spin.

[Slapshot]

Good riddance to him but Independence will never die in Scotland but Independence has to be at the right time and the right circumstances. It'll appear until such times as it happens, so in Westminster terms as soon as the oil dries up.

PP you're kind of flogging a dead hosre talking about when the nations ceded to the UK, it was a different time where decisions were made by a few men all out for them selves. The Act of Union in 1707 was done to suit a few of the Scottish nobles who did very nicely out of the Union.

Nowadays people power exists and has the yes campaign presented a package that people could understand and that answered the questions everybody needed to make an informed decision this vote would have been a Yes. I voted no, basically because we didn't know what we'd face come Friday morning never mind 5 years from now. The call for independence never go away

[Zacs-Master]

If independence wasn't gained whilst you had oil, what chance is there when you haven't ?

[Zacs-Master]

Oh sorry, I think I miss read.

[Khandro]

Had the yes's got their wish, heaven forbid (and it thankfully did) would that chap have had the mettle to now start taking on the gigantic issues Scotland would be immediately facing; The EU, the currency, NATO and Defence, passports and border controls, NHS, the national debt and a myriad other things which would have had to be initiated or re-structured by the creation of a new hugely expensive infrastructure?

[jomifl]

Khandro, I imagine he would have claimed that until Scotland was cut off at the umbilical cord, the responsibility for sorting out all the difficult stuff would have devolved upon the UK.

[Quizmonster]

My last contribution to this thread opened with the words: "Where do people get the strange notion that the idea of independence will now disappear in Scotland?"
Speaking of 'strange notions', I have no idea where Peter Pedant gets any of his; indeed, I often wonder whether he has. One of his oddest must be his recent idea, more than once expressed, that I live in the American west. It even sounds as if he thinks I might have been a member of the (original) Boston Tea Party!
I'm getting on, I have to admit, but I really wasn't around in 1773 or 1861. In any case, wasn't the American Civil War (1861) one that CREATED rather than DESTROYED the Union we now know? Again, you see, I haven't a clue what he is talking about.

For the record, I am a Scotsman, born and bred, who has lived in England with an English wife for a long time, simply because of how my life has developed over the years. I'm perfectly happy here and the vast majority of my friends are English. None of that bars me from concluding that Scottish independence was something much to be desired.