If case you missed Lesley's article in the 'Comment is free' website on Friday.
Alex Salmond was sitting on a platform in a darkened cinema at the Eden Court complex in Inverness last night – the venue for the 75th annual Scottish National party conference – the meaty smell of stovies floating round the packed room (think watery haggis with potatoes) as plates of Scotland's traditional peasant fare sat largely uneaten by the modern class of SNP delegate. The line-up at the trade union fringe meeting, however, was classic comrade – all-male and squeezed behind a too-small table with too few mikes and nervous, over-formal chairing.
In the midst of it all sat SNP leader and former banker Salmond, grinning cheerfully as if to the cloth cap born, flanked by leftwing, jargon-spieling English-born trade unionists and waxing lyrical about his aim of creating a Scottish social partnership modelled on advanced Swedish experience of co-operative industrial relations. And despite his support for American tycoons like Donald Trump, his championing of small business not workers' rights, his own past as a Royal Bank economist and his role as leader of a government about to cut jobs in the public sector, scarcely a brotherly voice was raised against him. To read more...click here.
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