 | 'Oh yes, and because Ms Scanlon is standing down, the next name on the Tory 'list' - a certain Dave Petrie - gets a £51,000 job as an MSP without so much as a 'by your leave' from the electors. Will nothing ever be done to end this scandal?' Nicola Sturgeon, SNO Holyrood leader, 3 rd April 2006. |  |
NATIONALIST stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
Already selected as the candidate for the Scottish Parliament elections next May, it would be an outrage if Richard Lochhead, a close ally of party leader Alex Salmond (right), didn't get the nod. But because this is a by-election, SNP rules insist that the candidate must be adopted afresh.
This fact gives me just an inkling of an idea. It goes like this: why doesn't Mr Salmond just get himself adopted for the by-election. After all, Mr Lochhead already has a seat - he's a 'list' MSP - and so Wee Eck wouldn't be doing his protégé out of a job or a salary.
And by fighting and winning the seat himself, Mr Salmond would save himself at least a year in his bid to become First Minister. He already intends to fight the Gordon constituency in next May's Holyrood elections as part of his scheme for world (sorry, Scottish) domination.
So why not start now, by going for it in Moray. He's not feart, surely, of Mary Scanlon, who's giving up her seat as a 'list' MSP to do battle for the Tories?
Oh yes, and because Ms Scanlon is standing down, the next name on the Tory 'list' - a certain Dave Petrie - gets a £51,000 job as an MSP without so much as a 'by your leave' from the electors. Will nothing ever be done to end this scandal?
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