Mr Salmond is accused of carrying out the assaults at his . Aberdeen Journals Ltd 2023. Its obvious to a blind mans dug by now that Alex was completely hoodwinked by Mrs. Murrell, so how did he miss the warning signs? Sir, - Since the Holyrood election we have had a host of correspondents banging on about respecting the will of the Scottish people. Stephen Noon to right of Nicolson, now a Jesuit Priest, he was livid at how 2014 campaign was run. @eileencarson it is Jennifer Dempsie, as was then, now Mrs Angus Robertson. I had her sussed in 2016 and Im not even close to any of them, so how did he miss the warning signs? I agree. Ill be pleasantly surprised if the Spectators application today is successful. Ive got to assume The Spectator knows what its doing, what its doing will cost quite a lot of money, and that it will succeed. them. First Minister of Scotland She had also said the meeting was arranged only because Mr Salmond had something to tell her relating to party business. 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Last week, a cross-party group of politicians requested the right to question the minister over the issue. This could get confusing. Revealing her bid last night, Ms Dempsie said: It has been an honour to be encouraged to stand in Aberdeenshire East and after careful consideration, last week I confirmed to the SNP constituency association that I will take part in the selection process for the Scottish Parliament election in 2016.. This has already been said not quite spelled out clearly enough: The Committee on the Scottish Government Handling of Harassment Complaints is trial No. A FORMER SNP leader has slammed Alex Salmond's ex-adviser for setting up a meeting which led to a government grant to T in the Park. What is an example of a descriptive and amusing. Off-camera came the audible respose that she could name them. They will. Ok so the evidence can be published and as long as no one outs themself we can proceed on the basis no one is identified? However, I have realised that there is still more I want to achieve in my career in business with some exciting new opportunities arising. Stuart MacDonald, Michelle Thompson, David McKay, Joanna Cherry, Neale Hanvey. I have never read a word written by that ex-pat moaning old git in France that make sense or is the basis of a decent exchange of views. what is the actual proper remit of the committee? She will be lauded as an example for women everywhere, dragging herself out of modest working class origins to strut the avenues and boulevards of blessed America and join the cocktail circuit of Washington. Ha Ha thats how fkn stupid this whole set up is you would need a bloody good memory to figure out the moves in this Machiavellian tragedy or balls up whatever suits the description. 11 February, 2021 at 12:50 pm. It's clearly not over yet for Alex Salmond" johnsmytheinvestigations.wordpress.com/2022/05/07/an- Lady Ra_Bleather Retweeted Andrew Doyle If you doubt that then ask Craig Murray. The SNP is beyond redemption and this countrys institutions have resoundingly failed the people they exist to serve, while our leaders and their close associates get fat off the public purse whilst using spurious legal arguments, threats of imprisonment, outright lies and general obfuscation to hide their true activities from the public gaze. Ironically, it was the type of reaction many of the special advisers had not seen since Mr Salmonds reign. That kind of international policy seems the kind of issue which seems much more likely to create a real split than Is a man in a dress literally a woman? But not a debate those behind it would want the party members or public having. Mr Robertson, 46, the SNP's leader in Westminster, wore a grey threepiece suit with white tie. He said one bottle of red wine was drunk and that he thought H was wearing jeans, but could not be certain. We are finding non democrats in all sorts of high places too! He acted for the former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond in 2018 in his successful Judicial Review of unlawful decisions taken in Scottish Government Complaints Procedure proceedings, https://ampersandadvocates.com/people/ronnie-clancy-qc/, (The Mac immediately above is not me. One is dragged off to the Nick the perpetrator and charged the other one is in the Mortuary the victim one is interviewed by the Cops witness Roll on Holyrood 2011. @sylvia re LL and NC, good point. PEOPLE brand this an SNP civil war and Im not interested in that. Backstabbing briefings and furious outbursts. Joanna is making the best of a bad job whilst at the same time giving the bloated one the finger. But he said the three of them were left alone after the pleasantries and small talk was out of the way, with Miss Sturgeon and Mr Salmond talking privately in another part of the house, which features a reading room filled with books, a compact kitchen fitted with a 1,000 coffee machine and a comfortable living room with a colourful floral feature wall straight out of a new-build home brochure. Insight into the minds of the Nicolsonerati, Perception is everything: how politicians, public servants and corporate bosses learn the art of spin. One senior Nationalist said: Derek Mackay is the obvious heir apparent in terms of his experience, the different strands of government hes worked in, hes moved up through the ranks. No, not that kind, the vote-winning kind. So, if the Spectator have won, are we getting the whole submission without the redacted paragraph? she then married AR in 2016? 11 February, 2021 at 10:13 am document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Wings Over Scotland is a (mainly) Scottish political media digest and monitor, which also offers its own commentary. she will be a source of great pride for wee Scotland. He could not remember if any of the guests were carrying any injuries, and could not say whether any guest was drunk. Cant see Lady Dorian agreeing to that. Especially Derek MacKay being touted as leader so soon before his fall from grace. Thirdly, she is dealing with a huge intake of new members who are now growing increasingly agitated about a second independence referendum that she does not want to call because she does not currently expect to win. She will dump her husband for someone a bit more connected and smarter/younger than Peter, who is a fat, pasty faced mealie pudding. Its the same situation in parliament from six MPs to 56 and now 35. Bald small man syndrome? Add Sturgeons admiration for Kissinger, Clinton and Lagarde and her very iffy foreign policy stance and you see a bigger picture. Geoff Aberdein and Duncan Hamilton guests at top-secret summit. Whispers of vendettas. Jackie Baillie has been okish during this but she can f**k off with the above. The public figure, who is not being named for legal reasons, told the high court in Edinburgh that the woman took part in a small private dinner with him, Salmond and a third guest at Bute House in Edinburgh, the first ministers official residence, in June 2014. According to him, the prove this beyond all doubt. Thats a significant gap. Jennifer Robertson, a former aide to Alex. Monday started like any other day inside the austere headquarters of the Scottish Government at St Andrews House in Edinburgh, as a civil servant handed the First Minister her early morning news digest summarising the stories in the media that day. SNP MP Angus Robertson and ex-special adviser to Alex Salmond, Jennifer Dempsie, get married Regardless of our clashes of ideas they are trying to undermine our systems. All of which is, I daresay, all very well and good. Is Alex Salmond in reality thick as mince but just as good at fooling all of us, as the people now turning against him were as good at fooling him? What a joke. I so hope the legal challenge today means Alex is allowed to tell all at this mockery of a judicial committee. Hyslop also faced questions about the role of Jennifer Dempsie, a former Yes Scotland staffer and aide to Alex Salmond, who set up a meeting between the cabinet secretary and T in the Park promoters DF Concerts while working as a project manager for the events firm. Court adjourns until 1.30. But such is the state of the SNP in terms of membership loyalty and the cult of personality that I think I would be in a minority on that., He added: We are heading for trouble and the party membership dont realise it they are in a state of denial. Inside the SNP, they do not know what lies ahead for Miss Sturgeon and Mr Salmond. Shelagh McCall QC, representing Salmond, accused the prosecution witness on Tuesday of making up the attempted rape and said the woman had used knowledge about the former first minister's . What hasnt happened is the Scottish goverment, snp members and the lord advocate now need to go on trial, Even Alex didnt stoop that low. But you she really is underwhelming, as Ive This shit show has gone on long enough. But it is far more rare for their current boss to express that type of anger in front of them. Does this make it more or less interesting & or relevant? Can i just remind everyone about Mark Hirsts fundraiser . Will Mr Aberdein be accusing Alex of sexual harassment. I dont know how you do it, but you just make my mornings with all you find out.. Poundland Alastair Campbell by the sound of it. Isnt it interesting that at a time when the Scottish legal system is very publically standing in disrepute, the one area where they bent over backwards, to do the right thing was in the area of the Alphabet women. They want Nicola to have the last word because the last words are remembered. Then again, the SNPs signature policy independence is a radical proposal that also frightens some people. https://www.gov.scot/publications/special-advisers-gifts-hospitality-media-meetings-and-expenses-april-june-2019/, Sturgeons spokesperson says: Its time to take this stuff out of the murky world of the blogosphere and subject these conspiracy theories to proper scrutiny, under oath, in parliament and thats what the First Minister will be doing in parliament next week.. Rev do you have a date for the pre referendum picture? I think shes talking about you again, Rev. Anyone got a view on how the Spectator case is going? Some of you posting BTL need to be VERY careful. its been gone over loads of times. Salmond's majority in the seat at the 2011 Holyrood election was a . Is he related to Dominic Cummings? People know people. Cole-Hamilton does it every chance he gets. Even if you ignore the bloody Braveheart wing of the party, the intellectual, cost-benefit analysis types within the SNP are ascetic number-crunchers, not the type of retail politicians best suited to the age. how do i prove im not watching live tv on any channel ? Just another attempt to smear and attack Alex Salmond by the back door. It looks more like youve been fooling us. Thanks :D. Thanks so much flash and the rest of the team for doing this. It only shows the strategy . The 33-year-old said last night that it was a great honour to have been encouraged by colleagues to throw her hat in the ring for nomination, but that it would be a tough act to follow for whoever gets the chance. A former aide to Alex Salmond has revealed that she has decided against standing to become an MSP for the Highlands and islands. Theyre a dirty bunch Mr Wings. In her final evidence session on Wednesday morning, H denied she had made up a story about Salmonds attempted rape. So Tories, Labour and SNP have/had ex Daily Mail advisors, https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,perception-is-everything-how-politicians-public-servants-and-corporate-bosses-learn-the-art-of-spin_8551.htm. By Democrat reporter SNP ministers have been branded "a joke" and accused of "running down A certain seniorofficial had thousands of pounds of taxpayers money spent on lawyers getting her out of it by trying to pre-determine what questions she could be asked, while Alex Salmond has been invited to appear, but literally threatened with imprisonment if he turns up and tells the truth. What really hurt her was that the stories appeared to have been briefed directly from her mentors team. Disgusting. Ref Watch: Was VAR operational for Ryan Kent's 'punch' on Aberdeen's Liam Scales - and why wasn't ref Nick Walsh sent to monitor if it was? And Lloyd is within his groping distance surely thats a bit risky. This farce of an inquiry is now at rock bottom. Clear oot of the senior officials running the previous colonial regime. These women have not been let down. I see Geoff Aberdein next to Alex, Campbell Gunn at the back behind Alex, LL on the right. Politics is the clash of ideas and policies not people. However, I do recall the nature of SNP conferences really changing quite suddenly one year. Scotland's former First Minister, Alex Salmond, was recently acquitted in an Edinburgh courtroom of more than a dozen serious charges of sexual abuse. John Pentland, Liam McArthur, Mark Griffin and Liz Smith said: There has been no adequate explanation as to what the money was used for.. With a small c. Which means that the beneficiaries of theis small-c timidity are the Scottish Labour Party. The story is less favourable to the SNP and it looks like its setting Peter Murrell up to take the fall for Sturgeon. Ref Watch: Was VAR operational for Ryan Kents punch on Aberdeens Liam Scales and why wasnt ref Nick Walsh sent to monitor if it was? They do not want Alex to appear last under any circumstances because he is just as strong an orator as Nicola and what he says will have more effect if he goes last. @alanmacintosh Let us all hope the Court takes the correct decision to enable this Committee to come to the obvious conclusion. Why is Jeremy Hunt pretending he can control inflation? Just had a Stuart Nicolson memory. In May 2020 Scottish prosecutors charged journalist Mark Hirst for comments he made arising from the Alex Salmond trial. Leading up to T in the Park, Ms Dempsie set up meetings between festival boss, Geoff Ellis and Finance Secretary John Swinney, Transport Minister Derek Mackay, and Work and Training Minister Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, where the event took place. @eileencarson it is Jennifer Dempsie, as was then, now Mrs Angus Robertson. Express. Police Scotland will be very keen to slippy shoulder the entire thing onto the Electorial Commission. In 1999 Duncan Hamilton had a brief encounter with Jane Smith (daughter of the late Labour leader). BLMac says @ 12:50 pm Yes I agree Ingwe cant see the spectator having much joy with their application as the establishment will be told to close ranks. So it must have been taken after the Indy ref not before. Mr Aberdein also revealed new details of a meeting between Mr Salmond and Miss Sturgeon. But surely Tuesday night was something special, when Mr Robertson and his wife, Jennifer Dempsie - the former journalist, one-time Alex Salmond aide and sometime facilitator of pop concerts. Cybertroll. Robertson's wife, Jennifer Dempsie, is a former advisor to Alex Salmond. Did he think that he could maybe get him onside? Is that Pringle behind Stephen Noon? The Stuart Nicolson photo is a photo of the group of Spads that worked for Salmond, at the point of his departure in 2014, including a few who had moved on during Salmonds tenure. 2. How did it ever come to this?. As for Salmond, there is a little thing called trust, and Im confident Salmond trusted his team, but thats not always a two way street, as we now see with Sturgeon. Courage, of the leaders and people at the time of declaring independence; The two women to Alex Salmonds left looking cosy and happy with him look quite familiar . Mind you i might just go and buy myself a Tartan walking stick,a wheelchair,a couple of new dresses from PRIMARK and a pot of face paint and go top of the list in the Lothians!! Yeah the women were so badly failed what a pile of shit. She insisted it was a new, organic website which was changing all the time, and denied the phrase "people o' independent mind" implied support for the campaign. During his criminal trial, Alex Salmons and his lawyers were shown the full set of recovered WhatsApp messages between the people he says we're plotting against him. 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