![]() ![]() ![]() But when it came to another former Scottish party leader, he was for some reason in a rather more forgiving mood. Kezia Dugdale, unlike Alex Salmond, still has a day job in politics. Despite resigning as Scottish Labour branch office leader, she remains a list MSP for the Lothian region, and is paid over £61,000 a year by the taxpayer to represent the people of that area. (She’ll be donating her salary to charity while on the show, but that doesn’t help people who need the services of their member of parliament, and the financial sacrifice will be outweighed many times over by the fee Dugdale will be paid for appearing, of which she’s pledged only “a portion” to good causes.) She’s chosen, though, to take three weeks off from that job in order to appear on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, during which time the people of Lothian can presumably go and get stuffed. So you’d expect Alex Massie to be pretty hopping mad about it, right?īut all he can manage is a weary, vaguely disapproving “good luck to her”. We have no idea how much Salmond’s production company is being paid to make The Alex Salmond Show, but we suspect that it’s a somewhat less profitable endeavour than Kezia Dugdale’s jungle adventure.Īnd we’re also pretty sure that raising women’s rights, LGBT rights and the situation in Catalonia is a more honourable pursuit than eating kangaroo’s genitals for laughs and money, even if Dugdale occasionally manages to squeeze in a bit of politics chat with some mouth-breathing bubblewit from TOWIE or Made In Chelsea between waterfall showers and Bush Tucker Trials.īut the sheer temerity of Alex Salmond in yet again refusing to lie down and die when indignant Unionist hacks wanted him to will never be forgiven as long as he lives, and is the frame through which all Scottish political journalism should always be viewed. It starts from feeling elite and entitled, moving through institutional exceptionalism, to a collective narcissistic personality disorder! There’s a spectrum of groups with self importance behaviour. It sometimes seems everyone related to WM, its Establishment, its media, and the Union which defines it, suffer to some degree from this sense of entitlement. (I’m sure the EU27 currently see the UK in this light !) They believe and behave as if their UK is something special on this planet of nations. It manifests most frequently as hypocrisy and a genuine belief in ‘one rule for us, another for them’. Basically, rules are for the little people, not the special people like themselves. We Indy supports, for the most part, don’t want to be better than everyone else, we just want to be the same as everyone else. How dare Alex Samond behave as he wishes, such freedoms are for the specials! And why should that offend anyone? Well, of course, it will offend those whose every decision is driven by their sense of superiority and entitlement. #Wordify words for winter beginning with p free.#Wordify words for winter beginning with p tv. ![]()
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