"ALEX Salmond was touted as a potential candidate for deputy prime minister in the UK Government after the 2014 independence referendum, according to Alastair Campbell's diaries."
You might want to read that comment a couple more times before the full implications hit you! 😮😲
You might want to read that comment a couple more times before the full implications hit you! 😮😲
"The revelations come in a serialisation of extracts from Campbell's diaries from 2010 to 2015, which exposes the turmoil behind the scenes of the campaign to keep Scotland in the UK."
"The idea for Salmond's Westminster role was said to have come from one of his former aides in 2015, shortly after he announced he was running for a seat at Westminster."
"Campbell, Tony Blair's former spin chief, discussed Salmond's potential role as deputy PM at a dinner with Aberdeen Asset boss Sir Martin Gilbert and former Salmond aide Geoff Aberdein."
Ah, yes, the very same, #Aberdein that arranged the 'meeting' for Salmond at home of FM! 🤔
Ah, yes, the very same, #Aberdein that arranged the 'meeting' for Salmond at home of FM! 🤔
The very same discussion with #Aberdein that is the peg on which oppostion MSPs hang their condemnation of @ScotGovFM!
Alas, they have accepted his comments on blind faith, cloaked as they are in legal protection. 🤔
#Aberdein has NOT personally given evidence to the committee!
Alas, they have accepted his comments on blind faith, cloaked as they are in legal protection. 🤔
#Aberdein has NOT personally given evidence to the committee!
Yet, #Fraser was quick off the mark, to suggest that #ScotGovFM's evidence in person, was not accurate and not corroborated by the three companions of #Salmond that just happened to accompany him to the meeting with #ScotGovFM at her home. 🤔
This rather suggests that 'evidence' provided to corroborate what #Aberdein has told them he said or discussed with #ScotGovFM might be construed as untrustworthy 'heresay' - neither tested nor proven under oath!
Surely, this would never meet strict criteria used in a courtroom!
Surely, this would never meet strict criteria used in a courtroom!
In a diary entry - February 4 2015, Aberdein said: “Alex really likes you.”
Wonder if he was asking for self or Scottish national interest? 🤔
#Salmond is described as a 'tactile' individual at centre of current controversy in Scotland relating to his inappropriate behaviour.
Wonder if he was asking for self or Scottish national interest? 🤔
#Salmond is described as a 'tactile' individual at centre of current controversy in Scotland relating to his inappropriate behaviour.
"Campbell wrote: “He said Nicola [Sturgeon] would be having mixed feelings re. Alex being in Westminster."
"But as the evening wore on – and he mentioned a couple of times that he had been speaking to Alex today – he raised directly the idea of Salmond as DPM in a Labour coalition government."
#Aberdein apears quite eager to avoid any misunderstanding and ambiguity over his request.
#Aberdein apears quite eager to avoid any misunderstanding and ambiguity over his request.
I'm puzzled - was #Aberdein asking for a friend, or was he asking what #Salmond had asked him to ask, on his behalf?
Why did #Salmond simply not make the request for position as DPM, directly, to avoid misleading anyone at any time then or in the future? 🤔
Why did #Salmond simply not make the request for position as DPM, directly, to avoid misleading anyone at any time then or in the future? 🤔
I don't know about anyone else but, I'm sensing a Déjà Vu feeling?!? 🤔
It is widely accepted that people are fairly consistent in their behaviours and what motivates them in pursuit of their goals.
You can certainly read #LiarJohnson like a well thumbed playbook!
It is widely accepted that people are fairly consistent in their behaviours and what motivates them in pursuit of their goals.
You can certainly read #LiarJohnson like a well thumbed playbook!
“After the Q&A with Martin, during which I said I felt Labour could win – and said why – Geoff said you don’t believe that, you know he can’t win a majority, but he might do it with Alex in there as No. 2. I said I would try to sus it out.”
Dogged and persistant, for a friend!
Dogged and persistant, for a friend!
"A book on the diaries is due to be published this month, but the extracts have been obtained by DCT Media, and published in the Dundee Courier and Aberdeen Press & Journal."
It's on the reading list beyond any reasonable doubt and certainly worth a closer look!! 🔍👁️
It's on the reading list beyond any reasonable doubt and certainly worth a closer look!! 🔍👁️
"He went on discuss his fondness for Sturgeon and deputy first minister John Swinney, adding: "Trouble was we painted them as awful and even though nationalism might be, they are not.""
Trouble with campaigning is that careless words to score political points can be damaging. 👎
Trouble with campaigning is that careless words to score political points can be damaging. 👎
"The Conservatives went on to campaign with graphics of Miliband in Salmond’s pocket, in what was seen as an attempt to steer voters in England away from Labour."
Any tactic will do, as a means to an end and everything and everyone else is simply collateral damage!
Any tactic will do, as a means to an end and everything and everyone else is simply collateral damage!
Tweet no. 6 above ☝️
*Another discussion, with the very same #Aberdein
Clarity is everything if you want to avoid misunderstandings and ambiguity!!
*Another discussion, with the very same #Aberdein
Clarity is everything if you want to avoid misunderstandings and ambiguity!!
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