Never met him. Voted no in 2014, actually couldn’t stand him. My mate used to work for him 2012 to 2014! Now I’m a strong YES and I miss knowing Alex is not there anymore. Great man. Cheeky, smart, attentive, strong, courageous, fearless and he could take anyone on. He gave Scotland everything, really impressive how tirelessly he fought for the people of Scotland and to free Scotland herself! I will greatly miss “Scotland Speaks with Alex Salmond” on UA-cam. RIP Alex and thank you for everything 🙏! 🏴 will never forget you. ✌️
I’ve listened to Lesley Riddoch for years. She’s one smart lady. I Remember her on Radio Scotland tearing a few MPs and others a new one. She had more knowledge of the subject than the ‘experts’ on the programme and could run rings round anyone she interviewed. She has a highly advanced bullshit radar and takes no prisoners. She’d be a great First Minister or PM but she obviously values her independence. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
Independent experienced knowledgeable advisors like Lesley Riddoch, real experts from industry, scientists experts in their field, and Academic experts to advise politicians, please NO MORE young graduates who are experts in nothing following political ministers around, political advisors gae me the boak
I met Alex a few times, his loss to Scotland will be immense. I actually don't care whether I like a politician or not, it does not matter a jot. What matters is what they are saying, and what they are doing. I never believed a single word of the accusations against him. It ran completely contrary to what he did when the new SNP MPs started in Westminster - the welcome and "you will be scrutinised like no other politician here, the British establishment will use absolutely anything they can against us, and don't fall for any honeytraps" speech. Given that, there is NO way he would've done anything at all that could've been used against him. He was way too smart and intelligent to fall into that trap. I admired so much about him, and he was not only a politician but a true statesman, and there's not many politicians you can say that about. Died way too soon, and sadly yet another person who has not lived to see Scotland's freedom.
Just a thought but you have to be a risk taker to be a good delegator. This is because you delegate authority to carry out a task but you cannot delegate responsibility so the senior manager has to take the ultimate risk when handing authority without responsibility to the junior manager.
@@valeriebrown6079 I was born and lived all my life in South Lanarkshire. My point is that mayors and provost's do the exact same job but the pettiness of a title means more to the political class than making people's lives better and that is one of the reasons Scottish independence would be a disaster. The Scottish parliament has never attempted to build a wealth creating nation since 1999. A process they cannot comprehend.
@@John-qy9nw what do you mean by wealth creating as it sounds to me you’ve been taken in by the neoliberal claptrap that has captured most western countries since Thatcher and Reagan held power. As for the mayor/provost thing, having lived in both countries, I’m not sure they do fulfil the same role and if they do, language is an important part of nationhood. Scotland’s industrial woes are mainly the result of having been run as a resource for the Home Counties.
@@valeriebrown6079 Scotland's industrial woes are a result of losing competitive advantage in the main industries, coal, steel and shipbuilding since the end of the 19th century. Two world wars and 40 years of subsidies disguised this fact into the 1980s. When Thatcher exposed the fact that there was no value in the British economy outside of the South East of England by ending the subsidies the reaction from the left to this day is to shoot the messenger. I am greatly in favour of decentralisation. I did not vote for Brexit for powers to be returned to this island for them to sit in London again as they have since 1066 but I don't trust Scottish politicians not to do what London has done. The Edinburgh economy had boomed since 1999 whilst Glasgow had stagnated. I have always said the Scottish parliament should be moved to Glasgow where far more people live would solve that problem. How old are you? Do you remember life before 1980's? It's the only reason anyone could think life pre Thatcher and Reagan was better. Doesn't mean to say some of the thing's they done have been taken to excess by their respective successors in the decades since. The British public sector must the Thatcher treatment like the private sector was in the 1980s. They believe life should be arranged around their desires rather than the taxpayers they are employed to serve. The left must be eradicated from Western civilisation. You know I think they are pretty much the same, maybe different jurisdictions would differ slightly.
Some lovely insights on Salmond, but particularly striking was his recognition of post-war Scotland being transformed by the hydro schemes destined initially to sate England - It was not just landowners who came under threat from Tom Johnson but HMG, they would have been quite happy for Tilly lamps to remain the norm across Scotland at the time, and undoubtedly into the present - Johnson was a Labour man when Labour actually meant something FOR the people.. The Salter Prize recollection was a tad unfair - Salmond recognised he needed to gee up interest in harnessing sea power ( who can forget the 'Salter ducks' ) but since oil and gas discovery, ANYTHING that in the lightest impinged on their monopoly was roundly slammed in the press - You can see the same vested interests influencing to this day in the case of Orkney, setting back Orbital's planned tidal array to I understand 2025/26, and the State of a Secretary for Scotland banging on about SMRs despite us being unable to export what we already produce...
To be offered a political position and possibly make changes for the better then turn it down to stay out the tent and snipe is a wee bit eye opening tbh
Like Alec or not you have to agree he was a formidable politician 🏴
Never met him. Voted no in 2014, actually couldn’t stand him. My mate used to work for him 2012 to 2014! Now I’m a strong YES and I miss knowing Alex is not there anymore. Great man. Cheeky, smart, attentive, strong, courageous, fearless and he could take anyone on. He gave Scotland everything, really impressive how tirelessly he fought for the people of Scotland and to free Scotland herself! I will greatly miss “Scotland Speaks with Alex Salmond” on UA-cam. RIP Alex and thank you for everything 🙏! 🏴 will never forget you. ✌️
I’ve listened to Lesley Riddoch for years. She’s one smart lady. I Remember her on Radio Scotland tearing a few MPs and others a new one. She had more knowledge of the subject than the ‘experts’ on the programme and could run rings round anyone she interviewed. She has a highly advanced bullshit radar and takes no prisoners. She’d be a great First Minister or PM but she obviously values her independence. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat.
Independent experienced knowledgeable advisors like Lesley Riddoch, real experts from industry, scientists experts in their field, and Academic experts to advise politicians, please NO MORE young graduates who are experts in nothing following political ministers around, political advisors gae me the boak
@@billylion1967 i concur
YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED FOR THE REASONS, YOU HAVE MENTIONED! I WOULD AGREE!
Lesley, I like the way you said he was “a cheeky bugger”
I met Alex a few times, his loss to Scotland will be immense.
I actually don't care whether I like a politician or not, it does not matter a jot. What matters is what they are saying, and what they are doing.
I never believed a single word of the accusations against him. It ran completely contrary to what he did when the new SNP MPs started in Westminster - the welcome and "you will be scrutinised like no other politician here, the British establishment will use absolutely anything they can against us, and don't fall for any honeytraps" speech. Given that, there is NO way he would've done anything at all that could've been used against him. He was way too smart and intelligent to fall into that trap.
I admired so much about him, and he was not only a politician but a true statesman, and there's not many politicians you can say that about.
Died way too soon, and sadly yet another person who has not lived to see Scotland's freedom.
Just a thought but you have to be a risk taker to be a good delegator. This is because you delegate authority to carry out a task but you cannot delegate responsibility so the senior manager has to take the ultimate risk when handing authority without responsibility to the junior manager.
A mayor is English. Scotland has provosts.
That is true. The fact you felt the need to point out that unbelievably petty difference is why I hate Scottish politics.
@@John-qy9nw I bet you’d feel different if the suggestion was being made to replace all English mayors with provosts.
@@valeriebrown6079 I was born and lived all my life in South Lanarkshire. My point is that mayors and provost's do the exact same job but the pettiness of a title means more to the political class than making people's lives better and that is one of the reasons Scottish independence would be a disaster. The Scottish parliament has never attempted to build a wealth creating nation since 1999. A process they cannot comprehend.
@@John-qy9nw what do you mean by wealth creating as it sounds to me you’ve been taken in by the neoliberal claptrap that has captured most western countries since Thatcher and Reagan held power. As for the mayor/provost thing, having lived in both countries, I’m not sure they do fulfil the same role and if they do, language is an important part of nationhood. Scotland’s industrial woes are mainly the result of having been run as a resource for the Home Counties.
@@valeriebrown6079 Scotland's industrial woes are a result of losing competitive advantage in the main industries, coal, steel and shipbuilding since the end of the 19th century. Two world wars and 40 years of subsidies disguised this fact into the 1980s. When Thatcher exposed the fact that there was no value in the British economy outside of the South East of England by ending the subsidies the reaction from the left to this day is to shoot the messenger. I am greatly in favour of decentralisation. I did not vote for Brexit for powers to be returned to this island for them to sit in London again as they have since 1066 but I don't trust Scottish politicians not to do what London has done. The Edinburgh economy had boomed since 1999 whilst Glasgow had stagnated. I have always said the Scottish parliament should be moved to Glasgow where far more people live would solve that problem. How old are you? Do you remember life before 1980's? It's the only reason anyone could think life pre Thatcher and Reagan was better. Doesn't mean to say some of the thing's they done have been taken to excess by their respective successors in the decades since. The British public sector must the Thatcher treatment like the private sector was in the 1980s. They believe life should be arranged around their desires rather than the taxpayers they are employed to serve. The left must be eradicated from Western civilisation. You know I think they are pretty much the same, maybe different jurisdictions would differ slightly.
Wheen,what a fantastic descriptive word.
Some lovely insights on Salmond, but particularly striking was his recognition of post-war Scotland being transformed by the hydro schemes destined initially to sate England - It was not just landowners who came under threat from Tom Johnson but HMG, they would have been quite happy for Tilly lamps to remain the norm across Scotland at the time, and undoubtedly into the present - Johnson was a Labour man when Labour actually meant something FOR the people..
The Salter Prize recollection was a tad unfair - Salmond recognised he needed to gee up interest in harnessing sea power ( who can forget the 'Salter ducks' ) but since oil and gas discovery, ANYTHING that in the lightest impinged on their monopoly was roundly slammed in the press - You can see the same vested interests influencing to this day in the case of Orkney, setting back Orbital's planned tidal array to I understand 2025/26, and the State of a Secretary for Scotland banging on about SMRs despite us being unable to export what we already produce...
To be offered a political position and possibly make changes for the better then turn it down to stay out the tent and snipe is a wee bit eye opening tbh
How much money did Trump give him to overrule the democratically elected councillors of Aberdeen, and build a golf course on a nature reserve ?
Politics from a nationalist perspective. Typical nationalist arrogance to suggest they speak for all of us.