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[omega3000]

Now its all over



Goodnight

[cleggy]

Trout face Salmond has resigned as first minister and leader of the SNP, so hopefully that's the last we'll hear from him.
Staying as an MSP, needs the money.

[plym ian]

Trout face Salmond has resigned as first minister and leader of the SNP, so hopefully that's the last we'll hear from him.
Staying as an MSP, needs the money.

Just read on the news he's resigned

Talk about throwing your toys out of your pram

I think he is a member on here ready to delete his account at a moments notice

[Kevin Wood]

He'll be asking for his post count back next.

[05omegav6]

Typical spineless cabbage... The Snp can now deny all knowledge of any sweetners that he offered,  such as devolution of the Northern Isles, because the sporran which made them no longer works there

I can see the Snp doing really well in the next election...Not   and they can't pull the referendum card a second time

[chrisgixer]

Typical spineless cabbage... The Snp can now deny all knowledge of any sweetners that he offered,  such as devolution of the Northern Isles, because the sporran which made them no longer works there

I can see the Snp doing really well in the next election...Not   and they can't pull the referendum card a second time

Mmmmwell now hold on a second. Regardless of his opinions (of leading his country up the garden path) you have to respect his stand down speech of respecting the democratic process, and the result.

... Arguably the first and only thing he said that made any sense. But credit where it's due. ...however brief.

[hoofing it]

Alex Salmond is a decent guy at least he had the balls to put his head on the chopping block for what he believed in the last 2 years and he-ho he lost but he would of stood down regardless of the result.
I voted yes but I knew it would be a no vote.
I had the pleasure of being in his company(drinking of coarse) in Linlithgow 20 years ago in the four marys pub and the first thing he said am oot for a drink so don't talk politics.
   

[Nick W]

Mmmmwell now hold on a second. Regardless of his opinions (of leading his country up the garden path) you have to respect his stand down speech of respecting the democratic process, and the result.

... Arguably the first and only thing he said that made any sense. But credit where it's due. ...however brief.

Why? He's a professional politician, who intends to keep working. What else did you expect him to do, burst into tears and crawl out of the room on his hands and knees?

[05omegav6]

Mmmmwell now hold on a second. Regardless of his opinions (of leading his country up the garden path) you have to respect his stand down speech of respecting the democratic process, and the result.

... Arguably the first and only thing he said that made any sense. But credit where it's due. ...however brief.

Why? He's a professional politician, who intends to keep working. What else did you expect him to do, burst into tears and crawl out of the room on his hands and knees?

Yes, whilst singing... This...

[chrisgixer]

Mmmmwell now hold on a second. Regardless of his opinions (of leading his country up the garden path) you have to respect his stand down speech of respecting the democratic process, and the result.

... Arguably the first and only thing he said that made any sense. But credit where it's due. ...however brief.

Why? He's a professional politician, who intends to keep working. What else did you expect him to do, burst into tears and crawl out of the room on his hands and knees?

He practically did that anyway. pBut he could of left the book open and allowed over emotional types in the scotish national party to carry on picking the scab. He didn't and urged them to accept the result. Fair play I thought.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Had he been a bit more honest and provided more solid answers about things like the currency and Scotland's EU membership, then I think he would have pulled it off. 

[Olympia5776]

I'm not domiciled back home in Scotland so couldn't vote but would have been on the No side.
However , I think it was right , proper and noble that after a long and hard fought campaign he stand down and allow a new leader to take his party into the new political spectrum.
He must have committed most, if not all ,of the last two years of his life  to the referendum campaign and with such a wide age gap between he and his wife I think it wise that he get's back to some normality.
I have never agreed with his views or policies but do acknowledge his tenacity and belief in his convictions.

[chrisgixer]

With that out the way, is anyone slightly weary of the unionist side of all this?

  yes I know it's potentially hypocritical

I mean the presumption is, if your against an independent Scotland then you must be a unionist. Right?

That doesn't sit well with me tbh. Not that it matters to an English man so much, or does it?

Thoughts?

[05omegav6]

Well, if nowt else a No vote has stopped the UK economy from having ten bells of shit kicked out of it

[Broomies Mate]

With that out the way, is anyone slightly weary of the unionist side of all this?

  yes I know it's potentially hypocritical

I mean the presumption is, if your against an independent Scotland then you must be a unionist. Right?

That doesn't sit well with me tbh. Not that it matters to an English man so much, or does it?

Thoughts?

If you were born in the last few hundred years, which I'd imagine all of us are (with the exception of maybe STMO), then we should by default be Unionists.

I was 100% all for the NO vote.  I am a Unionist.  I believe we are a great nation.

I was 100% UNTIL Cameron and Co rolled over and offered things which, well, why?  Westminster is in charge of this nation, it's done OK so far.... why allow Alex Salmond to change all of that?

I changed my opinion to - Balls to it - Let them break off and do their own thing.

This is just the beginning.  It won't end here, I can assure you!