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Emrys

(7,957 posts)
10. I don't want to clutter up today's Scottish election results thread with this bitter old hasbeen,
Sat May 8, 2021, 06:41 PM
May 2021

but since we talked about Alba and Salmond a bit here, I thought this would serve as a fitting postscript. These were his remarks this morning, coming to terms with Alba's abject failure along with a few of the party's apparatchiks, in case anyone was wondering how he was faring:




Alasdair Clark
@alasdair_clark

Some extraordinary comments from Alex Salmond on his Youtube appearance today. Says Alba will continue to grow, accuses Nicola Sturgeon of "losing her nerve" on independence in 2017





Alasdair Clark
@alasdair_clark

Elsewhere in Alex Salmond’s YouTube video, he says now that Donald Trump has ‘left a vacuum for me’, he is going to ‘unleash’ himself on Twitter and ‘deal with the @MrJohnNicolson’s of this world’

[Twitter video]


(John Nicholson is an SNP MP. He can sometimes be a bit outspoken on Twitter, but is otherwise a gent, so I've no idea why Salmond's decided he's got it in for him. Maybe a Trumpian Twitter ban awaits ...?)
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