This afternoon Alex Salmond faced a public backlash after he appeared to use a television appearance to push his own politics, while paying tribute to the late Charles Kennedy. The Scottish Nationalist claimed on air that Kennedy, who passed away yesterday, was never really a true supporter of the Better Together campaign.
Now Jenny Rathbone, the Welsh Labour and Co-operative politician, has also risked the ire of the public with a tweet claiming that the 55-year-old’s passing is a ‘sad end to demise of Lib Dems’:
Many were quick to suggest that it was wrong to use his death as material for a political shot, and Rathbone hastily deleted the tweet:
@DeansOfCardiff I deleted it because it seemed to cause offence. None intended. Charles Kennedy a great politician who got it right on Iraq
The greatest living American until this week has died at the age of 97. I refer to Tom Lehrer, the finest satirist of the 20th century. He’s the one who observed that satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the genius who put the entire periodic table of
Many were quick to suggest that it was wrong to use his death as material for a political shot, and Rathbone hastily deleted the tweet:
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