Have read all the Salmond evidence twice. First of all, since it is careful to identify no complainers, huge questions should arise now about the intervention of wholly SNP publicly funded "Third Sector" organisations who demanded it not be published. Without apparently seeing it
But it is also a legal tour de force. The final paragraph of page 10 would be hugely defamatory if untrue. Except truth is, of course, a complete defence to defamation.
It also leaves Sturgeon in a very difficult position before her evidence on oath after Salmond. Does she continue to lie hoping it would be impossible to prove otherwise? Or does she cash in her chips and go down the "I made mistakes" road
Either way, things should now be in the hands of independent prosecutors. Get that it can't be "England", so how's about Australia or Canada?
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Really mundane point. The reason there was a strike in Glasgow today was because, in 2006, the GMB insisted on a deal with discriminatorily terms in favour of their male members. Advised by the GMB’s then research officer, @LabourRichard That’s just an unfortunate fact.
That deal was subsequently struck down in the courts. Not on the basis of what the management wanted but on the basis of what the Unions themselves had insisted upon. Whereupon the Unions panicked. For they might be sued for negligence in representing their female members.
Whereupon emerged various Trots, some of them GMB officials, to seize on the idea of a strike involving lots of “salt of the earth” women members. Great images. And to conjure themselves up as AJ Cook on the way to being an Momentum MP.