Salmond v Sturgeon Round 3 — Comment along with Sturgeon

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Previous thread here.

Point taken @girl re oh dear being patronising. Not helpful, so sorry. Since we're all here having this debate though, I would say it's worth reading writers who don't reflect your own views. I'd be interested in any recommendations to stretch or test my own thinking.

Oh I've read plenty Wings over the years but he's got worse and worse and I don't want to give him more page views.

I can only find 4 twitter messages with the same wording. Of course, people can copy and paste another's tweet and there's a large enough range of tweets in support of the FM that I don't see it as a big, disingenuous exercise on the SNP's behalf but each time their own.

@sessell I think most people do that already don't they?

to a compliant press

I'm wondering what papers people on here read because this 'compliant press' seems to be passing me by. The SNP get slated/damned and hauled over the coals every day in the papers I see

How things have changed. Andrew Neil's Alex Salmond's new bestie.
Wings is the favoured reading of unionists

The committee not getting the documents it requested seemed to play a large part when I watched live coverage but it course doesn't make the cut as "exciting" news. It was so concerning.

I'd hate to be an ordinary person embroiled with these people and systems.

Taken with the Rangers prosecutions it's very worrying.

I agree with Connor Matchett.

Even if I fully accepted the position of NS and co in all of this I don't accept that it is correct to obstruct legitimate enquiry from the Legislature holding the Executive to Account.

The Executive's job is to demonstrate to the Legislature that they are acting in accordance with their delegated Authority not to dictate to the Legislature.

I do think we miss investigative journalism now.

Something has just finally clicked to me with a little help from the internet archive and now more of the redactions and obfuscations are making sense!! I feel like I’ve been so thick!! You couldn’t make this story up.

I had a sense that there is s story there I'm the fog but I can't quite grasp it!

A story there in the fog.

Some comments in the earlier incarnations of this thread now make sense to me in view of this realisation. I’m sure I’m still missing a lot, however! I’m very much an outsider to this and not previously familiar with a lot of the characters.

No need to make it up. Know how to make our own entertainment in Scotland. Always been the case.

@ATieLikeRichardGere

Some comments in the earlier incarnations of this thread now make sense to me in view of this realisation. I’m sure I’m still missing a lot, however! I’m very much an outsider to this and not previously familiar with a lot of the characters.

I can guess what you've figured out. 😏

Would someone be willing to fill me in? I think I sort of know but sure I'm missing something?

@OldRailer

I had a sense that there is s story there I'm the fog but I can't quite grasp it!

Exactly how I feel

I’m also very, very confused. If anyone would like to point me in the right direction please?

Has anyone heard how Craig Murray's case is coming along? Last I heard he's been waiting a month for a verdict which seems insane.

@StatisticallyChallenged

Has anyone heard how Craig Murray's case is coming along? Last I heard he's been waiting a month for a verdict which seems insane.

Nothing on his own website Stats and not seen anything anywhere else either.

I'd hazard a guess at 'what's clicked'. Unfortunately though I'm being 'grey rocked'.

@WaxOnFeckOff

Would someone be willing to fill me in? I think I sort of know but sure I'm missing something?

I'm not sure I 'know' at all, but I'd love to be filled in on this!

The SNP get slated/damned and hauled over the coals every day in the papers I see

Only recently. They've had an easy ride on education and Covid for example.

@WaxOnFeckOff waiting that long for a verdict seems nuts. Regardless of what he's done or not done that kind of wait is not right IMO

He's also got a damn good point about selective prosecutions.