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Salmond spends a massive £400,000 of YOUR money on pointless venture

Ah, you can't beat Salmond and the SNP when it comes to wasting money. Their latest disaster sees Mr Salmond spending £400,000 on renting the Pall Mall Club in London to drive up support for his stupid Independence campaign.

He's trying to drum up support by allowing people visiting London to come in and support the campaign, even though they won't be able to vote in it.

The thing is though, it's been a complete flop. No one gives a damn about Salmond and his Saltire waving antics in this club and unfortunately it's costing the tax payer a fortune. The same tax payer that's struggling to put food on the table or find a job because apparently there's no money in the pot.

He can't have it both ways by saying he can't provide jobs and yet throw around this sort of money. To add insult to injury, Salmond and the Sports Minister (if ever there was a fake job) Shona Robinson have been suggesting that the people of Scotland only support Scottish Olympic athletes and to pretty much stick two fingers up to the rest of Team GB.

Well, you can't fault the 'classiness' of the SNP. It's just another great reason why the SNP shouldn't be supported, nor should the their Independence campaign be supported. When it's been suggested by fools like this, it makes you wonder what the country would be like if they did actually get their way. Please don't let them win, and let's raise up and make sure the SNP are politically crushed.

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Scotland enters double dip recession; Salmond blames Westminster

It's a shame to say that today, Scotland is in a double dip recession. Without getting bogged down in the financial ins and outs, but it's basically where two financial quarters suffer a reduction in economic growth.

You'd think at this point that Alex Salmond would say that he's responsible for it. Alas, this isn't the case. Rather, he's decided to pap all of the blame onto Westminster. Let's remember that the Scottish Government gets x amount of money each year in Westminster to do with as he sees fit.

Back during the BSkyB fiasco, Salmond claimed that it is his responsibility to create jobs and growth in Scotland. And yet now he's saying it's the UK government that is responsible for this. So just what the hell is his job then, if it's not to create new jobs and thus increase the economic growth in Scotland as a result of this. Perhaps he's ploughing the money he gets from Westminster into his failing Independence campaign.

It's sad that this is the man the wants to break up the Union, especially when he can't do what he says he will;improve Scotland.

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Alex Salmond did not have his phone hacked, but maybe his bank account

Alex Salmond is appearing at the Levenson enquiry just now in relation to phone hacking and his personal relationship with Rupert Murdoch.

Interestingly, he's saying that his phone wasn't hacked. Presumably this is because Salmond and Murdoch were so friendly that there wasn't any need to hack his phone anyway. Either that or Murdoch didn't want to hear any more about Salmonds Independence goal.

What he is saying though is that the Observer hacked into his bank account back in 1999. Yep, that's right, 1999, a claim which he has never made before now, nor went to the police about. You would think someone as vocal as Alex Salmond would have plastered this all over the place to make him look like the wrongly done by politician. Alas, it's only been revealed today, on the same day that he's being quizzed on his lobbying for Mudoch. Call me cynical, but it looks like he's doing this to deflect away any obtrusive questions about Murdoch.

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Yes Scotland campaign faces double blow

Ah, the Yes Campaign backed by Salmond as a means to rally the silly masses to vote for his new Scottish vision away from the Union has had TWO set backs, just a week after it was started.

First off, they've made the blunder that anyone that follows them on Twitter, or likes the website on Facebook, the SNP were immediately stating that not only were you a supporter of the Yes Campaign, but they were also using your photos and name and adding it to a list of supporters! Now, there's a perfectly valid reason for non-supporters to follow and like them, such as those in journalism, ethics councils and also other MP's and MSP's to make sure that the SNP are keeping in line with what they're 'promising'. Unfortunately, Salmond and his crew have been caught out on this one, and the site admins have agreed to slightly amend the site. Of course, the est thing that people can do know is to NOT like or follow the website and let the numbers fall down until it's only the hardcore nationalists that are left. So, that's blow number one for the SNP.

Blow number two also comes in the form of the supporters. On the Yes website, they had a hughe banner of people that supposedly backed the SNP's vision of Independence. Er, except these people were actors paid to pose for the photo. What makes matters worse is that it was bought from an American website for the price of £62.50 which has stock photos for a website to use.

Let's back up a second here, the SNP decided to PAY for a photo of people backing their campaign, at the expense of you, the tax payer. Surely that wreaks of ill practice, and also the fact that they know they won't win the vote when the people go to the polls.

Please, help spread the word about this latest blunder by the SNP by posting the link to this page on your Facebook wall/Twitter feed. It's reasons exactly like this that shows the SNP cannot be trusted.

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Salmond et al launch their Independence campaign- Not everyone in the party supports it

If there's one thing you can be sure of with the SNP, they've always got Independence at the heart of any conversation. Salmond and hit motley crew of bandits have launched the 'Yes' campaign to try and sway voters to vote that Scotland breaks off from the UK. Of course, he had to do this to an over the top fan fare, and that he did. Along of course with washed up actor Brian Cox and Boris from Goldeneye.

Apparently Alex 'Twenty chins' Salmond will be going around the country with his band of merry men to knock on doors to persuade people to throw all common sense out of the window and vote for them. Rest assured, if any of the SNP idiots come knocking on my door, they'll be having it slammed in their face.

Interestingly, out of all the members of the SNP, only 58% of them want to break away from the UK. Surely if they were all as supportive as Salmond says they are, they would all be behind him? Clearly this isn't the case. Even better, only one in three voters actually want to break away from the UK highlighting that the people of Scotland don't believe the BS that's being spun by the SNP.

Of course, the biggest worry is that if Scotland does manage to go it alone, it'll end up in the same state as Greece is just now in terms of finance. Can we really gamble it all just for a chip on the shoulders of those that push for Independence? No, we can't. It's an idiotic proposal by Nationalists that have the crazy idea in their heads that the English are the big bad, when they're clearly not.

Please, do the right thing and spread the word about this blog. That way we can crush the Independence campaign. After all, it's being proposed by a party that felt compelled to release a terrorist under dubious grounds, as well as one which has gotten far too close to the Murdochs.

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Lockerbie bomber dies

The Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi has finally died of the cancer that was supposedly going to finish him off in three months, back in 2009.

He was responsible for killing 270 innocent civilians after planting a bomb on an aeroplane back in 1988. Despite such an atrocious crime, he was released from jail by Kenny MacAskill in 2009 on 'compassionate' grounds. He supposedly only had 3 months left to live from his terminal prostate cancer. This claim was made in August 2009, and yet it took another 33 months to finish it off.

Of course, it may be the case that foul play was involved and that strings were pulled so that he could be released early, perhaps in exchange for money, oil or both. It brings us back to the issue that the SNP cannot be trusted, and are a terrible political party.

No other honourable party would have thought to release a terrorist on compassionate grounds. It's just another example of how out of touch the SNP are with the country, and yet they feel that they can make Scotland independent and better off as a whole.

Let's use this an example that everyone should boycott the SNP, since a vote for them is clearly voting for terrorist supporters. The death of Mergahi should have come sooner.

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SNP fails to take Glasgow

Remember over the past few weeks when the SNP were stating that they would in fact take Glasgow council in the local elections? Well, they've fallen flat on their face in that regard. It turns out that the SNP aren't the all powerful force they once thought they are with Labour being them rather badly in the Glasgow region.

Labour managed to take 44 seats out of a total of 79, compared to the SNP who only managed to take 27. Now, let's put this into perspective. Glasgow is the biggest council in Scotland, so of course it's the one that every part wants to win. It doesn't look good for the SNP administration when they can get a majority in this region, especially so when they're so adamant that they're the best bet for Scotland.

Good on Labour for winning in this election and perhaps this the start of the downfall of the SNP which is almost certainly in part due to the revelations about the party in the past few weeks.

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Alex Salmond to appear at Leveson Enquiry

It turns out that the First Minister, Alex Salmond, will be appearing in front of the Leveson Enquiry on June 13th to discuss whether or not he was the subject of phone hacking by the News of the World. Despite numerous Scottish ministers asking today if he had his phone hacked, he refused to answer, stating that all would be told at the enquiry.

Interestingly, he's also refused to endorse a report by MP's stating that Rupert Mudoch isn't fit to run a company, let alone a billion dollar empire so in other words he think Murdoch is a fit person to run the empire. He's also decided to block a Holyrood Committee investigating phone hacking in Scotland despite the fact that numerous MSP's are thought to have been hacked, including the former First Minister Lord McConnell.

Johann Lamont has accused Salmond of covering up for Murdoch “While Westminster has had an inquiry into Murdochs and phone hacking, Salmond blocks the Scottish Parliament from having one.”, which certainly seems to be the case when all of the other parties are requesting this investigation and yet he refuses to do so. It may be the case that Salmond doesn't want his best media buddy to be hurt any more by the revelations coming out from the Leveson Enquiry and the subsequent embarrassment that would undoubtedly take place at a Holyrood enquiry.

Of course, the SNP could decide to completely block an enquiry at any rate since they hold a majority in the parliament. Suffice to say, it still doesn't look good for Salmond and his cronnies. When they can't do a simple thing like giving the good ahead for an enquiry into a corrupt and criminal media organisation, you know there's something up.

Remember, the local elections are this coming Friday. Spread the word that people should NOT vote for the SNP.

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Time may be up for Salmond and the SNP

With the council elections just around the corner, an important question is just how badly can the SNP fail?

The nation of Scotland isn't stupid by any means, and with the revelations within the past week that Salmond et al aren't the whiter than white party that they state they are, it makes for an interesting time just to see how hard they'll fail in these elections.

Rupert Murdoch is probably the most hated media mogul in the world right now and as a result, any party that's been getting far to close to him will most certainly face the backlash of the electorate. Throw in the Donald Trump issue and you've got a volcano that's ready to errupt. People are getting sick fed up of the SNP coming out with their nonsense about helping Scotland and giving people the choice to break away from the Union.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't have a choice, but for crying out loud, don't ram the issue down our throats, and don't come out with erroneous facts to support your horrible campaign. The last thing we need is further economical instability which breaking away from the Union would surely bring. Sadly, the SNP don't think in a sensible manner, hence the reason why they're gunning for Independence as if it's the be all and end all.

I urge you to not vote for the SNP  in the upcoming council elections. To do so would be a crime against common sense.

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Alex Salmond has supposedly learnt a lesson from Murdoch and Trump

Oh Alex, you really need a JCB to get yourself out of the whole you’ve gotten yourself into. He’s still standing by his claim that whilst he did lobby for Rupert Murdoch, he only did it to bring more jobs to Scotland. The thing is he STILL can’t go on record and say how many additional jobs would be brought to Scotland if Murdoch took over BSkyB. Couple this with the fact that he’s still claiming that he didn’t lobby for Murdoch in return for positive press from the Scottish Sun and you wouldn’t be the only one thinking that something really fishy was going on.

He’s claimed that 2,000 BSkyB jobs were under threat, perhaps as a way for him to get himself out of this fiasco. Does that mean Murdoch would have arranged to pull the plug on Sky jobs in Scotland if Salmond didn’t abide to his lobbying?

With regards to Donald Trump, he did promise the billionaire that he wouldn’t have windfarms built anywhere near the golf resort, a promise which has subsequently been broken by the SNP. Alex Salmond stated that “I’ve fallen out with Donlad Trump because he doesn’t seem to understand that offshore renewable energy will bring 28,000 jobs to Scotland over the next 10 years.” However, are there really 28,000 coming to Scotland over the next ten years? Let’s not forget this ‘minor’ slip up by the SNP who forgot to tell the nation that £170 million would NOT be coming our way.

As mentioned numerous times on this blog, can the SNP really be trusted to run this country when they’re getting their stories mixed up something rotten? All they’re interested in is destroying the Union, and acting like they’re hear to save Scotland. Scotland does indeed need saving, and the people can do so by voting for any other party than the SNP!

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Alex Salmond now says he did lobby for News International

Remember a few days ago when Alex Salmond said he didn't lobby Jeremy Hunt over the BSkyB take over by News International? Well, he's changed his tune and is now saying that he did do it after all.

What's interesting though is that he's stated that this wasn't for The Sun to support the SNP, but rather it was for BSkyB to create more jobs in Scotland. When Salmond was asked how many jobs would be created (and when), he simply replied that he didn't know before going on to say that the role of the First Minister is to provide jobs for Scotland.

Let's back up a minute there though. If it's his job to provide jobs for Scotland, why did he not know how many jobs would be created by the takeover by the Murdochs? Surely that would have been the first question on the matter? Clearly not in Alex's case.

Moreover, if it's his job to provide employment for Scotland, then why is there such a high unemployment rate, especially amount University graduates? He really isn't doing himself any favours this week, and as this farce carries on, it's clear to see that him, and the SNP as a whole are not fit to run a burger stand let alone a country. It's clear to see that Alex Salmond doesn't face a problem head on and own up to any wrong doing. For him to flip flop on the issue of the BSkyB takeover is inexcusable.

It's widely known now that last March before the Holyrood election that James Murdoch was sent an email stating that the Scottish Sun would be backing the SNP in return for Salmond et al supporting the BSkyB takeover in so far as having Alex as the puppet on their string whenever they needed him.

As pointed out by the Labour leader, Johann Lamont, Salmond is the only political figure to continue to support Rupert Murdoch after the phone hacking scandal broke last year, going in so far as to invite Murdoch to Bute house (at the tax payers expense of course).

Do the right thing and spread the word against this abhorrent party!

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Salmond's at it again, with another billionaire!

Alex Salmond has misled another individual, this time the billionaire business tycoon Donald Trump. According to Mr Trump who spoke at a ministerial committee yesterday, he accused Alex Salmond of  going back on his word that no wind warms would be built near his golf course, citing that it make it look like a bad version of Disneyland. Now, you can totally understand where Trump is coming from here, in so far as that he’s spent a complete fortune on building the gold course, only for a hideous wind farm to pop up out of no where and bastardise the course.

Would you honestly go to a golf resort that had those hideous abominations right beside it? Of course not. One interesting point about these wind farms is that Salmond and his motley crew are wanting to have renewable energy supplying all of Scotland by 2020. Why would he want this though when he keeps on saying how oil rich Scotland is, and how they can survive on the oil alone if we went Independent? It certainly sounds as though he knows that the oil won’t last much longer, and yet he’s still deceiving the nation on this aspect.

Of course, Salmond is brushing this off as another conspiracy theory, just like the News International debate involving him just now. I just wish that for once in his life, he’d admit for what he’s done, instead of stating that the world is against him and going off into a tangent about he’s the saviour of Scotland. Let’s face it son, you certainly aren’t!

As Donald Trump so rightly put it “He is denying other things today. He is denying everything”.

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Alex Salmond did 'everything he could' to help NI take over BSkyB

It really hasn’t been a good week for Alex Salmond has it? Word has broken that Alex was more than willing to help the Murdochs take full control of BskyB and by extension, tighten their already cataclysmic hold over the media.

Salmond had taken it upon himself to make contact Jeremy Hunt whenever the Murdochs decided they needed a little push to secure the take over bid.  Now, it’s being speculated that the reason behind this is that Alex knew that he needed the support of the press in regaining his position of power in the last election. This makes perfect sense since the Sun is the biggest selling newspaper in Scotland.

However, the problem with this is that it once again reeks of corruption on the part of Salmond, and the SNP by extension. They, as a whole, are supposed to remain impartial, and not aid the media in return for beneficial press that would say, aid them in an election.

This came to pass when a ministerial debate was organised for the SNP on Sky News. It’s hardly impartial for a paper to praise a party when he’s in essence getting in to bed with them and giving them their full backing.

The Murdochs even went on record saying that they would move to Scotland under the conditions that they became indepant and if they had a reduced rate of corporation tax. Of course, old Alex would use this to his advantage and skim part of the tax off from BskyB in return for stating how much it would help Scotland to have the whole corporation here.

As it stands though, Alex is stating that he never said he would help smooth over a deal for the BskyB takeover. However, it’s an own goal on his part since his own advisor confirmed that he would do ‘whatever he could’ to make sure Murdoch Inc got complete control over BskyB.

Well done, Alex.

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Salmond 'forgets' about £170 million broken deal

Ah, good old Salmond is at it again! For a man that loves Scotland so much, he does enjoy holding back the truth the country! A green energy firm dubbed Doosan was all prepared to set up a brand new energy station that would bring in £170 million, as well as 1,700 which would be great to boost the economy.

However, Mr Salmond found out last December that the energy company pulled out of the deal because of the uncertain nature of Scotland should the people (wrongly) vote for Independence.

Alex claimed it wasn't his place to spill the beans on this issue, even though he was touting last year just how much of a big deal it was. Now, it might just be me, but this stinks of a cover up on the part of the SNP.  Especially so when he had his ministers scuttling around still researching about the company after the deal fell though coupled with the fact that he and the finance minister John Swinney were still saying how great this deal would be as late as February 8th this year. 

This truly flies in the face of what he said last week to voters in that they can trust him 100% of the way. Well Alex, when you cover up a fallen deal such as that, we honestly can't trust you at all. The reason he decided to make such a huge cover up was to knowingly deceive the people of Scotland into thinking that this deal was still going through.

Well done, Alex!

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A vote for the SNP is a vote in the WRONG direction

With the constant back and forth between Westminister and Holyrood over when the Independence Referendum will be, it does raise the question of who'll ultimately win the vote.

Clearly, it's the SNP against every one else and in all honesty, if the SNP do win, it will be detrimental to Scotland as a whole. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I am not a supporter of David Cameron, BUT, I do agree with him on the stance that Scotland breaking away from the UK would be disastrous for all parties involved.

Time and time again, the nodding Alex Salmond, and his nodding dogs Nicola Sturgeon and also Kenny MacAskill state that it's the best route for Scotland. How though? If we do end up breaking away from the UK, we would still be using the GBP, and wouldn't have control of our own interest rate.

It seems as though the entire SNP have a major chip on their shoulder that the English 'stole' Scotland from them, and as such they feel that they're defending Scotland's honour by trying to take it back. I think it's time to drop that historical nonsense. Can we really complain that we've had a rough time of it when we've been in the Union (Maggie Thatcher aside)?

All Alex seems to be interested in is getting all the money from the oil. Think back to your days at school though, where you were told that the oil is slowly but surely running out. What's the plans for Scotland then once the oil does run out? Granted, Amazon have set up a base here, and we've got a booming whiskey trade, but that's it.  Nothings made in Scotland, and Mr Salmond hasn't made any pledge to start a new industry up here.

Couple this with his promise for the re-election when he assured the people that he would not cut jobs in the NHS. That promise didn't last long, and the budget has been cut something rotten. From my own personal experience of trying to contact Mr Salmond over the NHS issue, he refused to take my calls, or even directly answer my emails. Instead, he had a cheeky email sent from his secretary to myself pretty much telling me to sling my hook and not to look in the public sector for a job, but to focus on the private sector instead since in his opinion, the public sector (with regards to the NHS) will be hiring less and less.

Apparently, he doesn't even know what the NHS spends the money on, he just throws them a few million and they get to spend it on whatever he wants.  This certainly doesn't sound like an excellent leader, especially when all leaders should be enforcing the public sector ethic over the private sector. Would you seriously want him doing such a shoddy job?

Lastly, let us not forget the incident with the Lockerbie bomber. A terrorist who brutally killed so many innocent people. Mr Megrahi was released under compassionate grounds by Kenny MacAskill after it being alleged that he only had a few months to live. However, those three months have turned into nearly three years. There is no way that the doctors involved in his care, nor the lab results could be that far off. Speculation has been rife ever since this date that oil was given as a trade off in return for Megrahi, although this is a fact that we'll probably never know.

It is however a slap in the face to the victims families that he was released. He surely didn't think about them when he committed his crime, so why should he have been released? The answer is, he shouldn't have been. Surely we can't trust a party that released a terrorist? In my eyes, that is one of the worst things you can support, and any party affiliated with such a decision shouldn't be given the light of day.

In my opinion, it strongly affected our relationship with the USA, and rightly so. When they think of Scotland now, they're drawn to the SNP who released a terrorist, which in itself should be a crime.

I would urge everyone that reads this page to vote for anyone bar the SNP (or simply not vote at all) since a vote for the SNP is a vote in the wrong direction.