Thread by @CraigMurrayOrg

AN IMPORTANT THREAD ON TODAY'S ALEX SALMOND EVIDENCE SESSION.
12.30pm BBC parliament channel.
Also livestreamed here.
scottishparliament.tv/channel/commit…

1/11

This is the FIRST TIME Alex has spoken since his trial almost a year ago. He kept entirely silent.

By contrast Sturgeon was frantically all over the airwaves, trashing his reputation, demeaning the jury and claiming that things he vehemently denied in court really happened.
2/11

Alex is the ONLY WITNESS on his side of the story.
Every other witness has been a government witness.
Every government witness bar one has had subsequently to correct lies in their testimony - only when exposed as documents dribble out. 3/11

The only non-government witnesses allowed have been the trade union, bound to take the part of those members who joined in accusations against Alex. No witnesses likely to support Alex side of the story have been allowed.
4/11

It did not have to be like that. The Committee could have called independent legal witnesses like Prof Alistair Bonnington and Prof Robert Black. They could have called Professors of Government. They could have called Roddy Dunlop QC.
5/11

They could have called legal rights NGOs. They should have called Rape Crisis Scotland and asked about their direct access into ministerial offices and Crown Office throughout the entire process and their role in co-ordinating accusers.
6/11

Alex is not only the sole witness before this committee to his side of the story - the side judged the truth by both the Court of Session and a High Court jury.
He also has one and a half hands tied behind his back.
7/11

The Crown Office and SNP parliamentarians have between them colluded to exclude the evidence of Geoff Aberdein and the key messages involving Murrell, Ruddick etc. which prove the collusion to get up a false case against him.
He is not allowed to mention excluded items.
8/11

In practice he may be hard to stop. Expect Fabiani to try to stop him and committee members straying into excluded evidence.
And remember the purpose of the exclusions is 100% to protect Nicola's role in concocting the entire affair.
9/11

I shall be surprised if we don't see Alex' microphone muted to prevent his giving evidence at key points. Expect also meandering, filibustering, irrelevant questions from the SNP committee members.
10/11

Finally this is not a judicial inquiry and he is appearing before particularly slippery politicians. There is no sense in which this is a fair impartial panel.
Watch for information to make up your own mind, but if you are depending on the verdict of the committee you are daft.