Lumberjilly
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Lumberjilly
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With yet more evidence emerging about the SNP's conspiracy against the "mighty oak" Alex Salmond, we are reposting George Galloway's tribute to Alex after his death two years ago. #NoVotesSNP #VoteWorkers "Alex Salmond was a friend of mine. We were exactly the same age. We entered the houses of parliament on the very same day almost 40 years ago. Alex Salmond was the man who did more than anybody else to bring Scotland closer than it has ever been to the break-up of the British state. One of the last things that Alex Salmond tweeted was the eerie comparison between the unequivocal 'I will stand with Israel' coming from Keir Starmer and the equally Messianic, unequivocal commitment given by Tony Blair, the former Labour Prime Minister to George W. Bush that "whatever happens, we will be with you" in the illegal invasion of Iraq which turned into such a cataclysmic failure. Alex Salmond was a man of many parts widely read, erudite in the extreme, articulate, but above all, brave. He did not go with the tide. He was not a weather vane. He stood up for what he believed in always. Even in private conversations that I had with him so many times, in London especially, he never once sought to elide the fundamental difference between us. That didn't mean we couldn't be friends. We were across the political aisle from him but we respected him, admired him, admired the way he would disrupt the most august parliamentary occasions like the budget when no one else would have thought to do so and if they had would not have had the courage to do so. Alex Salmond was effectively crucified by his own party members. His successor, Nicola Sturgeon and the gangrenous crew around her conspired to set up Alex Salmond on fake sex charges of which he was acquitted by a majority female jury in front of a woman judge in the high court in Edinburgh, but the SNP never forgave him. Although they issued condolences on the night of his demise, they had already excised him five years before from all and any mention from the website of the SNP. The SNP killed Alex Salmond. They contributed mightily to his death. If not for them, he might well still be alive. Indeed, if they had gotten their way, he would have died in prison a 70-year old man. But they failed in that and Alex was on his way to a kind of resurrection. His party, Alba, was beginning to pick up in the polls, and as can be seen from the entire Scottish media, which participated in the crucifixion of Alex Salmond. No one can deny now that he is dead that he was a major and mighty figure. A mighty oak has fallen. We shall not see the likes of him again in Scottish politics." George Galloway Leader of the Workers Party October 2024













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