RIP Charles Kennedy

[Batcher]

Alex Salmond statement to clarify what he said:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/com...rles_kennedys/

[mudskipper]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith...225#.afXQyjXQo

[vetran]

Alex Salmond made a perfectly reasonable comment about Charles Kennedy and was correct in what he said about him and the better together campaign as referenced above in the Sunday Post article

Salmond is a thug and opportunist always has been, he could have just dismissed the question as inappropriate.

[Batcher]

Salmond is a thug and opportunist always has been, he could have just dismissed the question as inappropriate.

A thug? I've never heard of him lift his hands to anyone. In sure the MSM would have reported anything like that

[minestrone]

Recognise yourself?

Ex-BBC journalist Derek Bateman's view
[I]

Bateman is a member of the SNP.

The fact that the fat man has to clarify his comments is a sign he ( or more importantly sturgeon who undoubtedly forced him to do it) realises what he said was wrong.

You see what you do is spend your days reading and listening to people who only present opinions that you yourself believe in. You have been doing it for so long you can't actually see what he said was crass.

[Unix]

Although I think the SNP haters are commiting fauxtrage, Salmond should have left the referendum out of his tribute.

[BrilloPad]

Although I think the SNP haters are commiting fauxtrage, Salmond should have left the referendum out of his tribute.

Indeed. Though I am reminded of the not the nine o'clock news sketch where 2 politicians are saying they hate each other. Until one dies and the other is saying nice things about him.

I am sorry he is dead. But I am not keen on drunkards. I will always fondly remember his HIGNFY performances though - really funny.

[MicrosoftBob]

Although I think the SNP haters are commiting fauxtrage, Salmond should have left the referendum out of his tribute.

If anything the treatment of Charles Kenndedy just shows our appaling treatment of people with mental health problems, so we should show compassion to Salmond

[Batcher]

Bateman is a member of the SNP.

The fact that the fat man has to clarify his comments is a sign he ( or more importantly sturgeon who undoubtedly forced him to do it) realises what he said was wrong.

You see what you do is spend your days reading and listening to people who only present opinions that you yourself believe in. You have been doing it for so long you can't actually see what he said was crass.

It's not often you're right but you're wrong again. Bateman is a journalist and not a member of any political party.

https://derekbateman1.wordpress.com/

Oops, this is where I come in. Cue music…I’m one of Salmond’s Stormtroopers. No really. Yes, read that again. A blogger, not a member of the SNP, who disagrees with Salmond on NATO and on currency, who expresses widely-held doubts about the impartiality of public sector presenters is (in Brian’s Wookie World) a Stormtrooper,

Salmond clarified his comments because they were being misinterpreted by the stupid unionists who can't understand what he says due to being idiots.

[Batcher]

Although I think the SNP haters are commiting fauxtrage, Salmond should have left the referendum out of his tribute.

I don't think he would have mentioned it if he hadn't been asked directly about it. It's what the MSM do, look for an angle to cause outrage to sell papers.