Salmond's airs and graces
James Forsyth 6:34pmKevin Maguire reports in the New Statesman that Alex Salmond has taken to signing his letters:
It is hard to think of a more pompous valediction.Yours of Scotland, Alex
Kevin Maguire reports in the New Statesman that Alex Salmond has taken to signing his letters:
It is hard to think of a more pompous valediction.Yours of Scotland, Alex
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John
July 10th, 2008 6:43pm Report this commentHe was always a greasy, pretentious little prat.
Martin
July 10th, 2008 6:43pm Report this commentWhat is pompous about it? Martin
Silent Hunter
July 10th, 2008 6:50pm Report this commentAnd there was I thinking that you don't get pointless articles in the Spectator Blog.
(sigh)
Sorry.....is there a 'point' to this?
Ian
July 10th, 2008 7:24pm Report this commentI think you'll find it's
'Yours, for Scotland'
Which is extremely common in Scotland. It's a shame most in Westminster don't have a clue about Scotland's traditions.
TrevorH
July 10th, 2008 8:30pm Report this commentCommon? Maybe amongst nationalists.
But maybe Salmond has decided to invent his own grand valediction.
Thomas
July 10th, 2008 9:35pm Report this commentI think Ian is correct, he probably did write "Yours for Scotland". But I can't imagine where the idea that it's a common Scottish tradition came from.
Salmond first used it in his resignation letter, the first time he resigned as leader of the SNP. Happily it did not catch on. It seems to have been resurrected a few months ago and it's still not catching on.
Amusingly, almost every Google result (all 47 of them) seems to have been written by Salmond.
Ian
July 10th, 2008 10:10pm Report this commentMy grandfather would often use the valediction 'Yours for Scotland' or 'Yours aye' in his letters.
Tankus
July 10th, 2008 10:19pm Report this commentnext its ...
"freeedddoooommmm
yours
Salmond the brave"
John MacLeod
July 10th, 2008 10:28pm Report this commentWhat a fuss over nothing. "Yours for Scotland" has been used among Nationalists for as long as I can remember (and I joined the SNP in 1985) and, while I have never used it myself, it's a "thing indifferent" - what psychologists call, I think, "phatic" communication; the sort of cosy, meaningless things we say more than we think, like "How do you do?" While he has never been backward in coming forward, Alex has vested the office of First Minister with a zest and standing that quite eluded his dull, bumbling predecessors, and made our wee country walk tall. I guess the Kevin Maguires of this world find that hard to handle.
Charlie T
July 10th, 2008 10:31pm Report this commentWhy sould any right minded person give stuff what the boorish Maguire thinks about anything?
He isnt any sort of objective journalist.Just a shill and a huckster for the Labour party.
Craig Strachan
July 11th, 2008 2:05am Report this commentJohn Macleod:
"What a fuss over nothing. "Yours for Scotland" has been used among Nationalists for as long as I can remember"
Yes, it is a traditional Scottish valediction with a long history, dating all the way back to the U.K. release of Braveheart in 1995, and is still most popular amongst the type of folk who fair loved that fillum.
Silent Hunter
July 11th, 2008 9:45am Report this commentPerhaps James Forsyth will be more careful in future when he uses the word 'pompous'.......it might rebound on him. LOL
OK....Can we please get back to more important matters like the Glasgow East by-election and why no one seems to be investigating the £500,000 of taxpayers money wasted on a crooked Labour MP?
Not to mention ELEVEN crooked Labour Councillors in Glasgow.
Someone
July 11th, 2008 10:21am Report this commentTHE COMMENTS ARE INVISIBLE.
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