No, surely he CAN'T have said THAT...

Oh yes he did.

"Mr Salmond told the Morning Show on Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE: “I am sure, as many people in Ireland will remember, that sometimes people in leadership positions in big countries find it very difficult not to bully small countries.

“Of course, what we have seen – as everybody knows – over the last week is the most extraordinary attempt to intimidate Scotland by Westminster politicians.”

Later in the interview, he made a similar remark, saying: “As again the people of Ireland will know, bullying and hectoring the Scottish people from London ain’t going to work.”"

What do I feel about it?

Dismay at his stupidity.

Horror at yet another revelation of the ethno-centric, anti-English hatred which underlies the Nat project.

Oh yes, and anger: Salmond ought to be rather careful about drawing parallels between Scotland today and Ireland in the 1920s, just in case those parallels start coming true.

Couldn't have that, could we?

It didn't take long - Nat nastiness on display

So according to Nat MSP and Salmond aide Joan Mcalpine, anyone who doesn't agree with the SNP is "anti-Scottish".

Depressing, disappointing, but hardly unexpected - I always knew that this was what they were like.

It goes to confirm something I have felt all along:

- When I see Salmond strutting, preening and dictating in his decidedly Il Duce-esque manner;

- When I see the serried ranks Nat MSPs behind him, cheering every word and slapping their flippers together like Sammy the Seal;

I hear the tramp of jackboots.

Since she started it, I now feel no constraints about having a go at la Mcalpine. She seems determined to set herself up as the Julie Burchill of Scottish politics.

What do I mean? Well it's not just coming out with outrageous and provocative statements. Those with long memories might recall Private Eye exposing the erstwhile Queen of the Groucho and now Doyenne of Brighton as using the same byline photo for many years and kilograms beyond its original date of validity.

La Mcalpine seems to have the same problem. Here she is in a recent pic:


And here is her blog byline picture:


Is this the same person?

In fact, was this EVER the same person?

I think we should be told.

GOTCHA! Cameron forces Salmond into early Referendum date announcement

I didn't come up with it, the folks over at Tory Hoose did.

Couldn't think of a better way of putting it, so simply decided to nick it.

What is equally amusing is the way the Cybernattosphere is trying to spin this as some sort of win for them. Hilarious.