Sturgeon's exit from the legal profession

[Steve_uk]

I enjoyed listening to her.  Eloquent speaker and pleasant Scottish accent but those suits and that hairstyle 

I think she was tipped off arrests were likely, hence her resignation. But that's as far as I will go in implicating her in nefarious activity.

[Hardy Boy]

I think she was tipped off arrests were likely, hence her resignation. But that's as far as I will go in implicating her in nefarious activity.

Livingstone [ Cheif Constable]  and Sturgeon have always denied this,  but two weeks before Livingstone announced his resignation and the week before Sturgeon stepped down,  He [Livingstone]  had visited Holyrood.....................Jumped before Pushed?

[ngb1066]

Livingstone [ Cheif Constable]  and Sturgeon have always denied this,  but two weeks before Livingstone announced his resignation and the week before Sturgeon stepped down,  He [Livingstone]  had visited Holyrood.....................Jumped before Pushed?

I agree HB.

[Hardy Boy]

I agree HB.

I don't know how long she can get away with it NGB, they certainly have a lot to hide................ . The Daily Mail reported that the legal bill for hiding documents containing details of Ms Sturgeon's behaviour has spiralled to £73,024................... I think this was to do with the Hamilton Inquiry that Steve said cleared her.

Beware Nicola Sturgeon! Fergus Ewing warns that 'many' people will work to get 'justice' for Alex Salmond................... I know his Niece  Christina Hendry has said she is going to stand for the Alba Party in the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency,  she has vowed to get Justice for Alex Salmond and so to have wealthy backers of Alex...............New reports suggest wealthy backers of Mr Salmond could continue a court case against the Scottish Government.

The former first minister alleged that elements within Holyrood colluded to ruin his reputation with sexual misconduct allegations due to fears he was likely to return to frontline politics.

[Steve_uk]

I don't know how long she can get away with it NGB, they certainly have a lot to hide................ . The Daily Mail reported that the legal bill for hiding documents containing details of Ms Sturgeon's behaviour has spiralled to £73,024................... I think this was to do with the Hamilton Inquiry that Steve said cleared her.

Beware Nicola Sturgeon! Fergus Ewing warns that 'many' people will work to get 'justice' for Alex Salmond................... I know his Niece  Christina Hendry has said she is going to stand for the Alba Party in the Banffshire and Buchan Coast constituency,  she has vowed to get Justice for Alex Salmond and so to have wealthy backers of Alex...............New reports suggest wealthy backers of Mr Salmond could continue a court case against the Scottish Government.

The former first minister alleged that elements within Holyrood colluded to ruin his reputation with sexual misconduct allegations due to fears he was likely to return to frontline politics.

I have nothing but respect for the women who came forward in what must have been an horrendous ordeal. https://youtu.be/U1wXbY4MhxY

[Hardy Boy]

I have nothing but respect for the women who came forward in what must have been an horrendous ordeal. https://youtu.be/U1wXbY4MhxY

Steve, any woman or man who suffers sexual harrasment or sexual vialation has my deepest sympathy, but i'm sorry i smell a rat.....................THE DIRTIEST BLOW Alex Salmond showed me compelling evidence that accusations were a political set up, says ex-SNP chief Jim Sillars




MY friendship with Alex Salmond, which was formed in 1980, started to erode in 1991 and finally evaporated after 1992.

Since then, and until he was charged with serious sexual offences I had minimal contact with him – a call at 1am during the referendum to tell me off, about 30 minutes at a PR event in Leith, and a welcome visit he made to see my wife as she was dying.

But whatever criticism I had made of his leadership, when he was charged with serious sexual offences from 2008 to 2014, I did not believe he was guilty, and I phoned to tell him that.

I went further and asked to meet him, and did so. He shared with me the evidence he had showing he was being deliberately set up; a clear political conspiracy at the highest levels of the party to bring him down, and stop him re-entering the political front-line. It was compelling evidence.

It was the dirtiest blow I have ever witnessed in 60 years of political life, and delivered to a man who, for all my criticism, had done more for independence than any other person alive or dead.

He deserved better. I am delighted he was cleared.

One of the reasons I believed him was that my late wife, Margo MacDonald, would have got wind of the kind of behaviour he was accused of. Margo knew everything that was going on in the Parliament.

Never once was there a hint of Alex being sexually abusive to women.

In case you think I am a fan, let me disabuse you, by explaining why I have been critical, and why I take nothing back from what I have said in opposition to Alex over many years.

There is a lesson for SNP members, and many others.

One reason Alex Salmond was in the dock, was the cult of personality. He shoulders blame for that, but so do others: the careerist acolytes who rose within the party as his ‘cheerleaders’ as he described one of his main accusers; the senior ones who hadn’t the guts to tell him he was wrong; and last but by no means least the party members who poured adulation upon him.

The reason I stood for deputy leader in 1991, was that I had been aware for some time, even before he became leader, of Alex’s ego, and authoritarian tendencies. With that post I could restrain him.

[Hardy Boy]

Steve, any woman or man who suffers sexual harrasment or sexual vialation has my deepest sympathy, but i'm sorry i smell a rat.....................THE DIRTIEST BLOW Alex Salmond showed me compelling evidence that accusations were a political set up, says ex-SNP chief Jim Sillars




MY friendship with Alex Salmond, which was formed in 1980, started to erode in 1991 and finally evaporated after 1992.

Since then, and until he was charged with serious sexual offences I had minimal contact with him – a call at 1am during the referendum to tell me off, about 30 minutes at a PR event in Leith, and a welcome visit he made to see my wife as she was dying.

But whatever criticism I had made of his leadership, when he was charged with serious sexual offences from 2008 to 2014, I did not believe he was guilty, and I phoned to tell him that.

I went further and asked to meet him, and did so. He shared with me the evidence he had showing he was being deliberately set up; a clear political conspiracy at the highest levels of the party to bring him down, and stop him re-entering the political front-line. It was compelling evidence.

It was the dirtiest blow I have ever witnessed in 60 years of political life, and delivered to a man who, for all my criticism, had done more for independence than any other person alive or dead.

He deserved better. I am delighted he was cleared.

One of the reasons I believed him was that my late wife, Margo MacDonald, would have got wind of the kind of behaviour he was accused of. Margo knew everything that was going on in the Parliament.

Never once was there a hint of Alex being sexually abusive to women.

In case you think I am a fan, let me disabuse you, by explaining why I have been critical, and why I take nothing back from what I have said in opposition to Alex over many years.

There is a lesson for SNP members, and many others.

One reason Alex Salmond was in the dock, was the cult of personality. He shoulders blame for that, but so do others: the careerist acolytes who rose within the party as his ‘cheerleaders’ as he described one of his main accusers; the senior ones who hadn’t the guts to tell him he was wrong; and last but by no means least the party members who poured adulation upon him.

The reason I stood for deputy leader in 1991, was that I had been aware for some time, even before he became leader, of Alex’s ego, and authoritarian tendencies. With that post I could restrain him.

They were a Rotten Party Steve, and it was unfair what they did to Salmond

The Salmond affair revealed the autocratic tendencies at the heart of Sturgeon’s government. At every stage of every inquiry and investigation, Sturgeon and pals resisted public accountability, withholding key documents and even redacting parts of a submission from Salmond deemed to be damaging to Sturgeon. As then Scottish Labour leader Jackie Baillie put it at the time, ‘We are seeing that there is something rotten at the heart of the SNP’.

[Hardy Boy]

They were a Rotten Party Steve, and it was unfair what they did to Salmond

The Salmond affair revealed the autocratic tendencies at the heart of Sturgeon’s government. At every stage of every inquiry and investigation, Sturgeon and pals resisted public accountability, withholding key documents and even redacting parts of a submission from Salmond deemed to be damaging to Sturgeon. As then Scottish Labour leader Jackie Baillie put it at the time, ‘We are seeing that there is something rotten at the heart of the SNP’.

Not one of the 12 charges stood up against Him Steve, not one...............The jury returned not guilty verdicts on 12 charges and returned a not proven verdict on a charge of sexual assault with intent to rape.

[Hardy Boy]

Not one of the 12 charges stood up against Him Steve, not one...............The jury returned not guilty verdicts on 12 charges and returned a not proven verdict on a charge of sexual assault with intent to rape.

Police probing senior civil servant over 'false statement' during Alex Salmond inquiry,  Lawyer Gordon Dangerfield told a Court of Session hearing on Friday that detectives are probing the alleged conduct of James Hynd.

Remember, remember… Four senior civil servants have corrected or clarified evidence to Salmond inquiry

[ngb1066]

I have nothing but respect for the women who came forward in what must have been an horrendous ordeal. https://youtu.be/U1wXbY4MhxY

It was a wicked conspiracy.  At least one of the women should be prosecuted for perjury and the rest for attempting to pervert the course of justice.  Hefty prison sentences would be justified.

 

[Steve_uk]

It was a wicked conspiracy.  At least one of the women should be prosecuted for perjury and the rest for attempting to pervert the course of justice.  Hefty prison sentences would be justified.

Whatever the jury's verdict I think it's disgusting that Salmond used his position of power to exert undue influence on females in his employ, allegedly hoping that the initial advance would lead on to something more.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/17/alex-salmond-tells-court-charges-are-fabrications-or-exaggerations

[Hardy Boy]

Whatever the jury's verdict I think it's disgusting that Salmond used his position of power to exert undue influence on females in his employ, allegedly hoping that the initial advance would lead on to something more.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/17/alex-salmond-tells-court-charges-are-fabrications-or-exaggerations

I think Sturgeon's Legacy has crippled the SNP Steve, not only what she did to Salmond, but how the Party was run and the Corruption behind it.

SNP membership slumps to its lowest level in 10 years as 65,000 abandon the party,  In a hammer blow to First Minister John Swinney before next year’s Holyrood election, internal documents suggest its membership is set to plummet to about 60,000 for the first time since the referendum.

That figure is more than 65,000 short of the 125,000-strong membership the SNP boasted of in 2019, a fall of more than half.

[ngb1066]

I think Sturgeon's Legacy has crippled the SNP Steve, not only what she did to Salmond, but how the Party was run and the Corruption behind it.

SNP membership slumps to its lowest level in 10 years as 65,000 abandon the party,  In a hammer blow to First Minister John Swinney before next year’s Holyrood election, internal documents suggest its membership is set to plummet to about 60,000 for the first time since the referendum.

That figure is more than 65,000 short of the 125,000-strong membership the SNP boasted of in 2019, a fall of more than half.

I hope they get hammered at the next Scottish Parliament election in 2026.  They have been a really awful administration.

[Hardy Boy]

I hope they get hammered at the next Scottish Parliament election in 2026.  They have been a really awful administration.

The saving Factor for them NGB, how awful Labour have started off, and how bad the Tories have been.

[ngb1066]

The saving Factor for them NGB, how awful Labour have started off, and how bad the Tories have been.

I agree.  The Labour vote is collapsing and Starmer is seriously unpopular.  I think Reform will make some impact despite having a very limited base in Scotland.  The Lib Dems will probably make some advance.