After a day fraught with more troubles for the SNP with Alex Salmond SNP MP foreign affairs being absent from Westminsters Syria debate this morning, allegedly on the important business of being at FMQs in Holyrood where's he was conspicuous by his absence. He then tried to cover his tracks by saying he was at an event for servicemen and unveiling his painting.

All well and good we may well say with the grand sum of £51500 being raised for a worthy cause. Alas all is not as it may first appear. Not only was the painting finished over a year ago and will only be displayed for a week,but now evidence has emerged that it's the self same painting that raises £51500 last year.

It seems that Alex Salmond is now getting caught in a web of his own deceit sadly using former charitable actions to cover his complete disregard for those who voted in him to represent them and the country.