Alec Salmond for Prime Minister?

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Ex-SNP leader Alex Salmond to stand for UK parliament

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond is to stand for a seat at Westminster at next May's General Election, the BBC understands.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-30364575


Is appeared very patriotic and passionate, would he ever be PM?



Would he be what the UK needs?


I think he has got to be better worth a punt, are the SNP basically a more militant Scottish Labour? Is he a socialist?
 
Need more than patriotic and passionate to be PM and that would be ironic and the opposit of patriotic to be a PM after all the independence saga he has been doing for the past 20 years and divide the country.

I don't believe a word the man says.
 
Do you know what he stands for? (Nothing to do with Scotland).

He would (inadvertently maybe) destroy the UK.
 
The SNP are nothing like Labour at all. Labour is a party on a downward spiral, corrupted by the unions. The SNP, while left wing, are more practical as to what can be done with available cash rather than borrowing, borrowing, borrowing ala Labour.

Regarding the original question, Alex Salmond as PM is practically unbelievable. He's an excellent politician and certainly far better than Cameron, Clegg and Miliband but I can't see any way he'd be PM! The SNP won't get enough seats for a kick off. Can you see anyone is Essex voting for SNP? Me neither. What I can see is him being kingmaker. Labour seriously screwed themselves in the Independence debate to such an extent that they're facing wipeout in Scotland leaving the field clear for the SNP. It'll be an interesting general election...
 
I know his secret plan!

Get in Westminster, defect to Conservatives, becomes leader, win general election give Scotland another shot at referendum! Or just give them indepedence completely. Go back as a hero and get a status built next to William Wallace.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I know his secret plan!

Get in Westminster, defect to Conservatives, becomes leader, win general election give Scotland another shot at referendum! Or just give them indepedence completely. Go back as a hero and get a status built next to William Wallace.
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Scottish independence was just a platform he jumped on as it gave him a shot at his real goals (which have nothing to do with Scottish independence) once it was clear he wasn't getting anywhere there he jumped back off to try another angle.
 
The thing about being a Westminster MP is that it is massively different to what he has been used to in recent years. I mean he can try to make grand speeches in the commons but if he says anything pro independence he'll have 600+ MP's jeering him. The Commons is a much more hostile environment than Holyrood even if the SNP clean up in may and get 20+ additional MPs surrounding him.

Also there is the question of oil prices - as much as he will, undoubtedly, make him self known he is not bullet proof. After all he implied that the price of oil volatility argument was, effectively, bluff and bluster and yet we already know that Scotland is heading for an even wider deficit this year due to oil prices. Will he even show up when GERS figures are released.

Having said that he'll be grabbed by every interviewer at the first opportunity so will get plenty of coverage I think.
 
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He was a Westminster MP for over 20 years. I doubt the place would phase him if he were to win a seat.
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Perhaps you're right and I wasn't clear. I really meant within the context of an independence agenda though which is what I focused on and also within the context of the amount of opportunities and room he has been given in recent years on that subject.

Also, rightly or wrongly, back then Scottish Independence was not really seen as the challenge it is today for Westminster.

But you're right essentially and I didn't mean to imply that he would be overwhelmed.
 
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A man who spent vast amounts of puplic money trying to keep various of his dealings secret yet would go to the opening of an envelope if it meant getting his picture on the TV or in the newspapers. Good riddance you are welcome to him down there. Can you take an equally unpleasant person, his sidekick Nichola Sturgeon?
 
Someone who desperately wanted away from the UK, yet now wants to be in Westminster? What the ****?

Can't stand this clown.
 
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