Somewhere in my mind I have this fantasy that a public servant, and it could be any senior servant in any agency or department, who had been hectored and crushed might just spend their idle moments wondering how to humiliate their erstwhile boss.
In Sir Geoffrey Howe’s resignation speech it was a cricket reference wot done for Thatcher.
It is of course far fetched that anyone would think a blue evidence tent in a front garden would destroy a reputation but that wonderful German word schadenfreude leaps to mind as being succour for those at the receiving end if the former FM - what is it that was used to describe Alex Ferguson’s rants? Ah yes hairdryer.
A few final thoughts. Never conflate independence with the SNP so it has not hit a brick wall- more a LibDem style brick wall and the outcomes of all authoritarian leaders is always a mess.
To do credit to the current FM he has a very different style and approach.
Is there a legal bar to anyone telling me what Nicola Sturgeon had against her mentor and patron, Alex Salmond? I've often assked why she wanted to destroy him, and the answers I've had so far are [silence], [everyone knows he's a sex pest], [she feared to lose her leadership, as John Swinney had done]. None of these seem plausible to me...........
I think you underestimate three things; the pernicious influence of Murrell, the degree to which Sturgeon was prepared to be influenced by him and the 'let it slide' apathy of independence-hungry supporters as to the obvious signs of Westminster creep that eventually ossified the party into self-parody.
This is ultimately a cautionary tale of a lazy support, tacit approval and a lack of vision in tolerating bold and uncomfortable routes to self-determination.
Comparing Sturgeon with Johnson is a low bar to set, Iain. It was easy to look competent next to him, particularly when she was given such an easy ride by the Scottish media. But all political careers end in failure and the highest death rate in the UK, despite her nannying, is a monumental failure.
Somewhere in my mind I have this fantasy that a public servant, and it could be any senior servant in any agency or department, who had been hectored and crushed might just spend their idle moments wondering how to humiliate their erstwhile boss.
In Sir Geoffrey Howe’s resignation speech it was a cricket reference wot done for Thatcher.
It is of course far fetched that anyone would think a blue evidence tent in a front garden would destroy a reputation but that wonderful German word schadenfreude leaps to mind as being succour for those at the receiving end if the former FM - what is it that was used to describe Alex Ferguson’s rants? Ah yes hairdryer.
A few final thoughts. Never conflate independence with the SNP so it has not hit a brick wall- more a LibDem style brick wall and the outcomes of all authoritarian leaders is always a mess.
To do credit to the current FM he has a very different style and approach.
Is there a legal bar to anyone telling me what Nicola Sturgeon had against her mentor and patron, Alex Salmond? I've often assked why she wanted to destroy him, and the answers I've had so far are [silence], [everyone knows he's a sex pest], [she feared to lose her leadership, as John Swinney had done]. None of these seem plausible to me...........
I think you underestimate three things; the pernicious influence of Murrell, the degree to which Sturgeon was prepared to be influenced by him and the 'let it slide' apathy of independence-hungry supporters as to the obvious signs of Westminster creep that eventually ossified the party into self-parody.
This is ultimately a cautionary tale of a lazy support, tacit approval and a lack of vision in tolerating bold and uncomfortable routes to self-determination.
Comparing Sturgeon with Johnson is a low bar to set, Iain. It was easy to look competent next to him, particularly when she was given such an easy ride by the Scottish media. But all political careers end in failure and the highest death rate in the UK, despite her nannying, is a monumental failure.
But I didn’t!