Back on the Salmond allegations either Alex is full of it and there is no smoking gun or he is playing a blinder. He says he has the evidence and will produce it this week.

If he has got the goods he knows how to twist the knife in he has built up his story with refusing to appear then dropping hints in the media and finally showing up.

I would imagine the political temperature in Jock Land is white hot at the moment.

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He definitely has something over them. Problem is that I am not sure how he can be paid off? They clearly cannot offer him a job in the Scottish Government and not sure what kind of powers they hold in terms of appointing people to international positions (the EU and to a lesser extent NATO where always the great dumping grounds for any problematic political type who knew far too many skeletons in cupboards to just be left by the wayside but neither of them fall under the remit of the Scotch Government).

I think he wants Sturgeon to sweat. To have her, and her husband, dangling on a hook. This is sheer vindictiveness now.

Amusing to watch. Question is does Salmond truly want an independent Scotland or does he loath Wee Nicky so much that he will effectively destroy her and potentially damage the SNP for years to come?

Scottish politics is a toxic cess-pool at the best of times so I am going for the almost Shakespearian drama of it all and Salmond looking to destroy the top echelons of the SNP. It already has structural problems in terms of opposition to its wokeness so this could split it in half.

However, and this is me going out on a limb here, I wonder if Westminster is dangling a lucrative job in front of Salmond's nose? Wheels within wheels.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Another good post Matov and you are correct Peerages, Ambassadors or BBC Chairman or EU has always been a good way of keeping the malcontents quiet but the SNP doesn't have that much pork to dish out.

I suspect that Alex will do a Samson and bring down the temple and bugger the consequences. As others have said Nationalists tend to be just this side of fanatics.

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Not proven, entirely different to not guilty. Both exist in Scottish Law. Also was only charged on a selection of cases. There were eight women who had made allegations in total. They can't have all been Sturgeon's stooges - or could they? I've always thought the whole episode a bit fishy.

Red and Blue Army!

LOL. A lot in that. But this kind of quagmire is very, very Scottish. It's a toxic society for a whole raft of reasons, with the lunacy of sectarianism never far from the surface either.

Throw in the 'balance' of a variety of chips on both shoulders and you have a society ideally placed to throw up these kinds of tragedies.

Add the kind of soft-focus view that many on the wider left have endowed onto what is an ardently nationalist organisation and you have this very Shakespearian situation playing out with nobody in England able to actually play the situation to their benefit. The Tories cannot touch it with a barge-pole given the demands for another referendum and Labour are still in a collective sense of shock at losing what was close on to 40 seats it considered 'safe', probably meaning it can never obtain a majority in the UK again.

Lot of twists and turns to play out here.

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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Except I cannot envisage Ms Sturgeon ever getting an attack of the guilts and wandering around trying to wash imaginary blood off her hands.

Far too cold and scheming, even more so than the much-maligned Lady M. Personally I would put her on par with Livia Drusilla of 'I Clavidus' fame.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Great Birnam wood is on the move.

And for the less t***ish out there, Wee Nicky is right in the s***. If she survives the week then she is the definition of a Teflon politician.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

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Things are hotting up.

Salmond has now produced 2 witnesses to back his version and the release of the legal advice is pretty damming.

I think Sturgeon has a case to answer, Until now she has been the SNP's greatest asset will the public now see her as a liability if yes then she is gone.

A vote of no confidence can only be won if some on the SNP side with the opposition not sure they are ready to do that just yet but I expect more allegations are bound to emerge.

This is all very Scottish sport, just when it looked like independence was a real possibility from the jaws of victory they snatch defeat.

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wee jimmy Krankie did her homework and had a catapult in her back pocket.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford