Alex Salmond, Scotsman & Patriot, 31 December 1954 - 12 October 2024. His final post on twitter today shows just how much pro-independence Scotland has lost. Many who have tried to destroy his life's work will breath a sigh of relief that he will not now hold them to account.
Great respect paid to Scotland's greatest First Minister by North Macedonia, which will never be forgotten by the people of Scotland. It's difficult to put into words how moving it is to watch this, so we'll let it speak for itself. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ
Happy Birthday to @AlexSalmond . Without him the SNP would not be the force that it is today, and Scotland would not be standing on the cusp of independence. His place as a Great Scot in future history books is already secure. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Risibly imagining you look cool as fuck rocking up to a gathering of the women your policies have wronged before realising, oops - there may be trouble ahead...
Led by the YES Bikers, a large contingent of the Independence Movement which loved Alex Salmond is accompanying him and his family - at his wife Moira's invitation - on his journey from Aberdeen airport to Fraserburgh. Kudos to all patriots involved. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
"It was my grandfather who first sparked my belief in Scotland...Robert Burns once wrote that a similar experience in boyhood gave him a Scottish view of the world which 'will boil alang till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest'.
So shall it be with me."
- Alex Salmond
It took the Scottish National Party 81 years of lifetimes of hard work to achieve a majority of Scotland's seats in the English Parliament. Under the impetus of Alex Salmond's leadership & IndyRef14 Scots gave the SNP 56 of 59 seats.
It took Nicola Sturgeon 9 years to wreck it.
@AlexSalmond - The Chief was always in command in interviews, and played a laconic blinder in this ace exchange with Jeremy Paxman, which is always entertaining to rewatch. We're so going to miss him speaking for Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐
It's nearly half a century since the BBC axed the Black & White Minstrel Show under pressure of it being deemed inappropriate for white singers to don blackface to perform as 'minstrels'. Now they've moved on to peddling men donning womanface to parody prance as women.
Happy Birthday to @AlexSalmond, the Hammer of the Union, whose love for Scotland is manifest in all that he says and does - how appropriate that he was born on this most Scottish of days, Hogmanay. Have a great day, Alex. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Alex on fire in Dundee on 28 October 2022 on how Scotland's oil & gas was sold out by WM half a century ago, and its vast renewable potential was undersold and sold out by its own SNP government fifty years later.
Some ace banter with @AlexSalmond & @JNHanvey at the bridge that should now be re-named to honour the man without whom it would have not been built, & whose name will undoubtedly join the names of Wallace & Bruce in the pantheon of era-defining great Scots.