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Previously on "Alex Salmond is Scotlands Nelson Mandela"

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  • wattaj
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    If you are stupid enough to take what he says at face value then you have a point. It is a bit like when he was waving the scottish flag at Wimbledon when Murray was playing. "Oh he is only supporting Scotland and Andy Murray" when in actual fact it was part of the manipulation process for Scottish independence.


    However he spins it he is trying to sneakily manipulate people into likening the independence movement to the overthrow of Apartheid. He wants to make people think (on some level) that it is a fight between the oppressed and the downtrodden.

    Unfortunately it backfired on him
    A very long time ago, Salmond tried to make political mileage out of a fishing boat sinking with all hands*; he claimed that it was Westminster that was preventing the raising of the vessel in order to conduct a full investigation... At the time, no one else would have suggested trying to raise a sunken boat. The man's an utter ****... Or *political opportunist* if one wants to be kind.




    * Clearly opinion, but that's my recollection of the disgust that I felt at the time.

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by Incognito View Post
    Typical establishment attack on the man. If you actually look at what he said:



    He's not comparing the elections at all, he is simply drawing attention to the fact that people are queuing up to register to vote, the only other time he has seen that was in South Africa. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good dose of bile though. Keep it coming, it's all helping. It's not Salmond who's doing the running here, all he needs to do is sit back and let the patronising bollox from the establishment drive the voters to him.
    Welcome back Incog :-)

    Never thought I would miss the presence of a hun, but I did

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Incognito View Post
    Typical establishment attack on the man. If you actually look at what he said:



    He's not comparing the elections at all, he is simply drawing attention to the fact that people are queuing up to register to vote, the only other time he has seen that was in South Africa. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good dose of bile though. Keep it coming, it's all helping. It's not Salmond who's doing the running here, all he needs to do is sit back and let the patronising bollox from the establishment drive the voters to him.
    If you are stupid enough to take what he says at face value then you have a point. It is a bit like when he was waving the scottish flag at Wimbledon when Murray was playing. "Oh he is only supporting Scotland and Andy Murray" when in actual fact it was part of the manipulation process for Scottish independence.


    However he spins it he is trying to sneakily manipulate people into likening the independence movement to the overthrow of Apartheid. He wants to make people think (on some level) that it is a fight between the oppressed and the downtrodden.

    Unfortunately it backfired on him

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by Incognito View Post
    Typical establishment attack on the man. If you actually look at what he said:



    He's not comparing the elections at all, he is simply drawing attention to the fact that people are queuing up to register to vote, the only other time he has seen that was in South Africa. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good dose of bile though. Keep it coming, it's all helping. It's not Salmond who's doing the running here, all he needs to do is sit back and let the patronising bollox from the establishment drive the voters to him.
    Indeed.

    And the buffoon Prescott has waded in on the NO side, but being as thick as pigsh1t he has somehow ended up promoting the YES vote!

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  • tomtomagain
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    why is he going to shut unprofitable nationalised industries and fix the economy?
    No he's going to adopt a far-right economic policy by trying to run a country without a central bank or it's own currency.

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  • Incognito
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Says it all about the self serving vanity of the man and his party. It also tells us a great deal also about the chippy idiots that are following him.
    Typical establishment attack on the man. If you actually look at what he said:

    Last Monday I saw something which I did not ever think I would see in my political life. In Dundee, I saw people queuing up – and it was not a short queue, it was a long queue – to register to vote.

    Almost reminiscent of the scenes in South Africa that some of us of a certain age remember from 20 years ago or so when people queued up to vote in the first free elections. I saw people queuing up to put in their registration forms to vote.

    People who frankly couldn’t give a stuff about political parties or any politician are now engaged joyfully in this electoral process, and, just for the absence of any doubt, they weren’t queuing up to vote No, they were queuing up to vote Yes.
    He's not comparing the elections at all, he is simply drawing attention to the fact that people are queuing up to register to vote, the only other time he has seen that was in South Africa. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good dose of bile though. Keep it coming, it's all helping. It's not Salmond who's doing the running here, all he needs to do is sit back and let the patronising bollox from the establishment drive the voters to him.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    why is he going to shut unprofitable nationalised industries and fix the economy?
    He'll reduced corporation tax and create mass unemployment and welfare dependency if that's any help.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    He's more Maggie Thatcher.
    why is he going to shut unprofitable nationalised industries and fix the economy?

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    He's more Maggie Thatcher.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    The ****'s got more in common with Joseph Stalin than Mandela.
    More Robert Mugabe

    How is Alex Salmond like Robert Mugabe? » Spectator Blogs

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    The ****'s got more in common with Joseph Stalin than Mandela.
    Uncle Alex has a sinister ring to it.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Says it all about the self serving vanity of the man and his party. It also tells us a great deal also about the chippy idiots that are following him.

    Alex Salmond sparks outrage by comparing Scotland vote to South Africa's struggle | Latest News | Latest Breaking News | Daily Star
    ‘We Are Not Amused’ – A Guide To The ‘Royal We’

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  • minestrone
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    Stompy Sturgeon.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Has Salmon's wife necklaced anyone yet?

    He will also need a disabled athlete to murder his girlfriend.

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  • minestrone
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    They have been dropping Mandela quotes for weeks now. Sturgeon did one last week.

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