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
After multiple suspected drone incursions by Russia, the EU has belatedly swung into action with plans for a ‘drone wall’. This network of anti-drone radars, sensors, signal jammers and interceptors – which would mimic Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ defence system – would be built along the 3,000 km eastern front of the union’s territories by 2027.
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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