He is in the position John Swinney was in, so I think he would be the natural person if John Swinney is not going to put himself forward again., BUT would he want to go for the job, since he has suggested privately he is not interested? A FORMER SNP leader has slammed Alex Salmond's ex-adviser for setting up a meeting which led to a government grant to T in the Park. Jennifer Dempsie, a senior figure behind-the-scenes in the SNP and the independence movement, told the Press and Journal she would seek to be the partys candidate in Aberdeenshire East next year. Some activists visiting Aberdeen might also ask themselves why this party of fairness and justice has allowed Jennifer Dempsie, the PR specialist at the heart of the T in the Park imbroglio, to. Judge is giving Spectator QC hard time. Jeezo, if there was ONE thing I wish Stuart Campbell would add onto the HTML coding for this website, it would be a BLOCK button. I fear that the fiasco we see now is not just a domestic matter and strings are being pulled from Virginia( home of the security apparatus in US.) Was the picture taken on the Ides of March? And Lloyd is within his groping distance surely thats a bit risky. I suspect its the former but theyre not as smart as they think they are and so its rapidly turning into the latter. Have you tried checking to see if the same technique had been used in the documents you were searching a month or two back. The Spectators QC, bodes well. The need for outside interests to clear the way on this is paramount to the public in being able to ascertain the truth in what was so flawed in the policy that the Government collapsed its own court case on it. she made only brief reference to the fact there is an ongoing police investigation into complaints about Mr Salmond and that she had referred herself for investigation but there was no substantive discussion of the matter. Let us all hope the Court takes the correct decision to enable this Committee to come to the obvious conclusion. The man behind him has an enormous head in relation to those much nearer the camera. The Aberdeenshire East constituency was created at the 2011 Scottish elections. I think is time for Geoff Aberdein to just release the ins and outs of his meeting to a Friendly Irish newspaper/media source. When it comes to such oppressions, post-colonial literature always points us in the direction of the bourgeoisie as the culprit. Whatever you want to call it,. wins its legal challenge over Salmond trial court orders: Lady Dorrian to vary an order which now allows Salmond and Geoff Aberdein evidence to be published. Warning: James Doleman tweets that the wording can be tweaked BUT not in the way the Spectator was asking. If I had Im damned sure Id want to know where my money is. All angles where pressure can be brought to bear on the SNP leadership exposing how far out of touch they are with the membership and populace is worthwhile. 11 February, 2021 at 12:50 pm. Thats a significant gap. Last week, a group of opposition MSPs united to write a joint letter to the culture committee urging Ms Hyslop to be called to give evidence on the award. IMO, that photo is a composite image which doesnt bear visual scrutiny. If you doubt that then ask Craig Murray. Hyslop also faced questions about the role of Jennifer Dempsie, a former Yes Scotland staffer and aide to Alex Salmond, who set up a meeting between the cabinet secretary and T in the Park promoters DF Concerts while working as a project manager for the events firm. Man tells court the woman was at private dinner at Bute House with him and Alex Salmond. Ruth Davidsons former Director of Communications(Jan 14 -Dec 19) Eddie Barnes was another Daily Mail alumnus. Mr Robertson, 46, the SNP's leader in Westminster, wore a grey threepiece suit with white tie. She had also said the meeting was arranged only because Mr Salmond had something to tell her relating to party business. Some interesting faces. Thought this was going to be about the position of Special Advisers in the Ministerial Code. 1,107,807 Comments, Wings Over Scotland Powered by WordPress Kenny @11:29 Endorsement may have been refused because of this , https://www.facebook.com/BritU1/posts/the-snps-mrs-message-her-romance-with-a-party-chief-and-a-150000-government-cheq/837293913044502/, SPADS 2018 Surely there is some specific objective of this committee. While he refused to dispute the version of events provided by Mr Aberdein, a personal friend who shares his love of Aberdeen Football Club, Mr Nicolson accused Mr Salmonds aides whom he notably referred to as the other side of a vendetta against Miss Lloyd, citing a reference in an opinion piece by a political journalist suggesting that Mr Salmond is looking for blood and that Miss Lloyd is ominously high on his wanted list. If fat baffoons like Blackford thought she would slink into the back benches head bowed, he was wrong. These will be delivered by the beginning of next week. its been gone over loads of times. That photo is great at showing some very ambitious and career-focused individuals, who aim for the top prize, and are always setting their sights on the next step up the ladder. Perhaps the biggest farce of all is that given all we know, Sturgeon is only facing rebuke for breaking the Ministerial Code. Clear oot of the senior officials running the previous colonial regime. It will be a tough act to follow, but if selected, I believe my experience at Holyrood, the Scottish Government, and as an advisor to the former first minister as well as working in PR and journalism in the private sector, willstand me in good stead to deliver on the priorities of the people of Aberdeenshire East.. Suddenly, from being a friendly place full of laid back people, some eccentrics and oddballs and having an almost family feel to it, it seemed to be rammed full of young people in sharp suits and management consultancy types. but very powerful hand during the Yes campaign. But surely Tuesday night was something special, when Mr Robertson and his wife, Jennifer Dempsie - the former journalist, one-time Alex Salmond aide and sometime facilitator of pop concerts. You lose count of the times they have attempted to destroy this man. Category The Alps have had a torrid season, with higher-than-average temperatures and heavy rain forcing many resorts to close, sometimes within weeks of opening. Dont worry, my close personal friend Facundo tells me that the Spectator will deliver today. Stuart MacDonald, Michelle Thompson, David McKay, Joanna Cherry, Neale Hanvey. ), Counsel for the Spectator is applying for changes to the court order, passed during the Alec Salmond trial, to prevent the identification of the complainers in that case.. @sylvia re LL and NC, good point. Itx your rights she is trying to protect. Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (/ s m n d /; born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician and economist who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. find off-putting , more focus on health and education (both subject to major SNP pushes in 2007) and so on. Thisll be another one the MSM are just waiting to detonate around April. BLMac says @ 12:50 pm Jim Sillars, a former deputy leader, has railed against the rise of the dominance of the party leader under both Mr Salmond and Miss Sturgeon and believes it has left the party light on options for a successor. (More), Stats: BREAKING If you respond to their contact saying you dont watch broadcast television, they seem to go away for a few years. High court application in Alexs name but should be Spectator magazine starts 10. Or is the order something else? But Aberdein cannot make any voluntary political action because of his current employment. What was said during the trial will not prevent people with being charged with contempt of court. Is it about correcting the process? His Holyrood house of cards is sinking, it will close soon before it collapses. More and more as these inquiries (sic) have gone on, along with repeated meddling deceitful statements (eg. About five years ago, when the licence rep visited, he was happy enough to be told I dont watch TV and use the screen solely for DVDs or streaming. Would you say he cheating on his wife Jennifer Dempsey? Weve already had a court say the original process was unlawful. Cybertroll. I said 3-4% was realistic, but Scottish Skier thought 0-1% was just as likely. It appears especially audacious given the immense lengths the Scottish Government has gone to to PREVENT certain people from appearing in front of the Fabiani Fiasco. 11 February, 2021 at 10:48 am Would you say he cheating on his wife Jennifer Dempsey? See pic in background with dates. Seems there are a lot more pieces to this jigsaw than the box declares. One senior SNP politician said: Youve got people in the party showing clear sympathies to either party. Then get it trending on twitter with a hashtag. It is now not so easy to keep people in line. Even if you ignore the bloody Braveheart wing of the party, the intellectual, cost-benefit analysis types within the SNP are ascetic number-crunchers, not the type of retail politicians best suited to the age. I contributed. Its every skiers holiday nightmare. From that photo, Alex Salmond obviously knows Stuart Nicolson well, so you MUST ask yourself, why was Alex Salmond involving himself with someone who worked for the Scottish Daily Mail? The wife of the SNP's Westminster leader has gone into business with a disgraced politician and is boasting of the contacts in her "little black book". You are on the verge of identifying one of the alphabet women and unless you actually work for the Scottish MSM you run the very real risk of being charged with contempt of court. We are finding non democrats in all sorts of high places too! Whispers of vendettas. "Absolutely not because I have this horrific image of him being fully aroused. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. Ms Dempsie, who lives in Garmouth in the north-east, began working for the SNP a decade ago as a press officer for Nicola Sturgeon, before being appointed as a special advisor to Mr Salmond when he was first minister. Poundland Alastair Campbell by the sound of it. Behind Liz Lloyd is Ewan Crawford married to a BBC reporter, he worked for the BBC too from memory. Add Sturgeons admiration for Kissinger, Clinton and Legarde and her very iffy foreign policy stance and you see a bigger picture. The SNP is beyond redemption and this countrys institutions have resoundingly failed the people they exist to serve, while our leaders and their close associates get fat off the public purse whilst using spurious legal arguments, threats of imprisonment, outright lies and general obfuscation to hide their true activities from the public gaze. All carefully choreographed which means theyre all equally guilty and due for a long rest away from the slimelight. As I understand it, Salmonds lawyers had published his staement after carefully redacting in order to protect the complainers and, since he hasnt been arrested, they seem to have achieved that to everyones satisfaction. Dial 0207 660 8149 and listen to request for your code which is 183 737 8571. It is a Police matter. Are the press allowed to name either the victim or the alleged perpetrator given the case has no relevance to a previous case they may or may not have been involved in ? @dakk no need for sarky comments. Leading up to T in the Park, Ms Dempsie set up meetings between festival boss, Geoff Ellis and Finance Secretary John Swinney, Transport Minister Derek Mackay, and Work and Training Minister Roseanna Cunningham, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, where the event took place. Is there any hope this depressing shit show will be over any time soon? What a stupid, pathetic, feckless piece of trolling you inflict upon others with your baseless Alex Salmond jibe. No doubt shell give judgement after her holidays some time in June. But such is the state of the SNP in terms of membership loyalty and the cult of personality that I think I would be in a minority on that., He added: We are heading for trouble and the party membership dont realise it they are in a state of denial. she will be a source of great pride for wee Scotland. Ironically, it was the type of reaction many of the special advisers had not seen since Mr Salmonds reign. what is the actual proper remit of the committee? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Wings Over Scotland is a (mainly) Scottish political media digest and monitor, which also offers its own commentary. Ok so the evidence can be published and as long as no one outs themself we can proceed on the basis no one is identified? John Pentland, Liam McArthur, Mark Griffin and Liz Smith said: There has been no adequate explanation as to what the money was used for.. There is a huge choice. Hungary, Ukraine, Belarus and now Scotland. Political editor of the Scottish Daily Mail, a paper that just loves the thought of an independent Scotland, and now hes Sturgeons Special Advisor. Mr Salmond has made it clear to friends that, if cleared of criminal activity, he would consider a return to politics. Surely a public statement of the truth by him would clear things up! Elected politicians only should speak to the public the advisers should be greatly reduced and silenced. He was quite sober, I have to say. Yeah the women were so badly failed what a pile of shit. (Similarly, one might note that Thatcherisms Scottish admirers were almost all men.) One aspect that might be worth pursuing, I genuinely dont know, so everyone pile in, is a letter (to be published) to the SNP expressing your concerns that the money has been embezzled, providing the SNP with an opportunity to re-imburse you within a certain time limit (and no reply will be considered as a refusal) and that failure to do so will result in you making the complaint a formal one to Police Scotland. How long will it take for the Spectator case to come to a verdict/conclusion? I was genuinely expecting to zoom in on that photo and see Sturgeons special adviser hanging around with Osborne and Murphy! Kiwilassie says: There were two others: a lady [H] who was a campaign organiser to some extent and the lady [who is not being named for legal reasons].. SNP branded 'a joke' for refusing to hand over Alex Salmond inquiry documents after second vote defeat in parliament Some of the main players - Salmond, Sturgeon, Kenny MacAskill and the FM's husband, Peter Murrell, Chief Executive of the SNP. Can we expect news of Craig Murray today? The source of her anger was not solely the fact that two newspapers had carried stories with fresh allegations about her dealings with Alex Salmond. We are subjected to a government and judiciary of the very worst kind, while the MSM simply look the other way. she then married AR in 2016? I agree. LL and the man behind her are not really reflecting any light at all (which is not possible in that group situation) and LLs hand, which looks as if it is wearing a red lace glove, has been edited to remove a clutch bag. 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