Thread by @ABalharry62

So ahead of today's main 🧵for fun my top 10 of the #indyref pops.
1/Andrew Fairlie 🙏Out at 55 Truly the best of us, there he was in 2014 running the 5 ⭐️Gleneagles restaurant ''Alison call me anytime you want and if I can I'll help out with interviews'' True gent, so humble/

This won't be popular and I know he can be rather pompous in public BUT privately different, so
2/ Pat Kane, he really put in a shift in 2014, could not have been more helpful, did everything he could to lessen my workload, which was eh rather heavy/

3/Joanna Cherry KC, always available when asked and she was a working legal 🦅in 2014
4/Aberdeen's Kenny Anderson, businessman super lad, James Cook featured him in various TV packages, aye #SNP blocked his candidacy ahead of the 2015 GE, aye like me too much, too challenging 😡/

5/ SSP's Colin Fox, unsurprisingly not much media demand for hard left voice BUT was always available when asked, delight to deal with.
6/Elaine C Smith who there was a high demand for nothing ever too much trouble
7/Female author, can't recall her name, good looking, dark hair/

specialises in Victorian era, member of #Edinburgh's WFI, anyone? One day Alex Salmond gave Kevin J Pringle the hairdryer treatment by phone ''WHY don't we have more Yes voices on #skypapers, get it sorted'' Aye I sorted it, she was one of a few who paid their own way to London/

8/Young lad member of National Collective, journalist, canna mind his name BUT his parents are behind reintroducing beavers to Perthshire, if that helps anyone identify him? Very posh lad, cut glass accent, super articulate he also paid his own way to London to do #SkyPapers/

9/Jim Fairlie then hill sheep 🐑 farmer, brother of 🙏Andrew and of course son of THE Jim Fairlie 😉 Of course now an #SNP MSP voted agin #GRRBill, went the extra mile to accommodate TV crews, super lad Remember him telling me in 2014 'Aye Alison you and Dad would get on well'😂/

10/Honourable mentions Michelle Thomson and Ivan McKee, it was they who 'headhunted' me in 2013 to do media for Business for Scotland after Derek Bateman turned them down, FTR I was not a Bateman fan. Neither had ever done any media but jings did they put in a shift,/

of course both now MSPs, worked freelance for them post 2014, no longer 😉😉The many Yes group activists throughout Scotland who worked tirelessly and always made time for the media when asked. Special mention to Yes Kirkcaldy's Marie Penman and Yes Dundee's Jimmy Black/

aye been pals with him for years, super lad despite fact he's still an #SNP member 😉, a very accomplished piper and real hard grafter for the most vulnerable in our society, His wonderful daughter was part of the 'young yessers' who I set up for #C4News/

When #c4news producer first called she was adamant they wanted to do piece from #Dundee + wanted to set it in ''an olde worldy #Dundee pub'', aye classic stereotype, hard drinking Scots SO told her that would NOT be happening so set it up from the super modern DCA cafe 😉ENDS