#Alex Salmond is a Putin apologist

[themistressofdolls]

If Humza was to ever cut a deal with that vatnik bastard Alex Salmond I would want to leave this country.

[irnbraw]

When Russia Has your ear..!

EXHIBITION  

When someone fails to unite ‘his’ country, but instead divides it, is he the failure? 

When a person leaves the center-stage and becomes a Fringe figure of derision marred by his own unstoppable sexist innuendo, is he no longer entitled to be taken seriously?

When a person appears to lose his grip on reality (as well as his seat in Parliament), has he got further to fall?

When a person can see nothing wrong with going into the open and public pay of foreign authoritarian kleptocracy, is utterly discredited?

In the case of Alex Salmond - the answer is yes and no.  He is a failed, buffoonish figure near the bottom of his public life with little if any credibility among right-thinking people... but - he still has his cult followers.  He still has much support inside the cultist confines of the SNP.  Most crucially for Scotland and the rest of the UK, he still has the ear of the First Minister.

He may have made an utter exhibition of himself (and shilling for Russia by becoming a paid mouthpiece for Putin is only the latest ego-driven grab for attention), and they say that a pearl is created by being an irritant!  However, in Alex Salmond’s case, he went straight from irritant to swine - with no pause at pearl.  And it is his access inside the cult that should give us cause for concern that someone with such poor judgement continues to have any influence!  And influence he has!  With a secretive cabal-controlled Scottish SNP-administration, and with access to that inner-core granted to Salmond, he continues to punch above his (not inconsiderable) weight.

With his divisiveness, his temper, his ill-considered ‘sense of humour’, his sexist comments, his bullying nature and his general aggressive oafishness, he should be as far from influence in Scotland as its possible to get.  But he is not gone and not forgotten.  He remains a poisonous element at the core of Sturgeon’s policy and political considerations.  That’s why she must share in his failure, his derision and - ultimately - his exile from Scottish public life.

Don’t buy into any narrative that describes Sturgeon and Salmond as split of the RT deal.  This cult sticks together like limpid mines covered in molasses and peanut butter.  Even after claiming she would have ‘advised him to take another direction, Sturgeon went on to say she was “absolutely sure Alex’s new chat show will make for interesting watching”...  Cult!

The SNP must be gone as a job-lot for its as a job-lot that they operate and as a job-lot that they have ruined so much in modern Scotland - from Social cohesion to the police, and from education to the health service.  Thanks first to Salmond and then to Sturgeon.

Exactly what can one say about RT?

Its “an agent of the Russian State” - Lib-Dem MSP;  its “Kremlin propaganda” - BBC;   “Russia’s deeply damaging propganda unit” - Tory MSP; and even “a tool of misinformation” - SNP MSP;

She has not merely inherited a past from him, she was his deputy, is is close political ally and friend and now acts as his chief apologist.

She is not just the girl with the misfortune to have a swine earring, she and he are painted with the same colours, and down they must come - together.