Much as I hate responding to your interminable trolling bottom burps, BT, I can't let this blatant piece of noxious mischief-making go by without comment.
Some actual facts for you......regarding your assertion that....Alex Salmond was "
conspicuous by his absence" at FMQs. You forgot to tell Murdo Fraser that was going to be your line, so he could get with your programme...because he tweeted that it was nice to see Alex Salmond at FMQs "
for a change."
Regarding your assertion that he was "trying to cover his tracks by saying he was at an event for servicemen and unveiling his painting." What tracks was he covering? He did unveil his portrait....there are pictures to prove it and he was at an event for the War Memorials Trust (which is about servicemen, I thought) and about which the Trust itself tweeted "
@AlexSalmond Thank you so much for hosting @WarMemorials at @ScotParl. We really appreciated it."
He had obviously, to even an intelligence as mean as yours, pre-arranged to be in Scotland on that day, because hosting an event at the Parliament is not a spur of the moment decision, and having arranged that, he fitted in other commitments around it....and a long time before the statement(not a debate) was dropped onto the House of Commons by Cameron.
And then we get to the title of your thread, BT and the tweet which prompted it.....do you
really not recognise sarcasm (or is it irony, I find it hard to tell the difference)? Can you tell me which part of that tweet was a lie..bar the thanks to the opposition. The portrait did raise £51,500 for CLIC Sargent, which is a good cause....and the meal made by the opposition, like yourself, of Alex Salmond not being where he didn't need to be in, order to be somewhere he had already arranged to be has most definitely upped the profile of his portrait..given that I, for one had long ago forgotten about it.
I suspect, if he had cancelled the painting unveiling and the reception for the Trust at the less than four days notice which would have been required to sit in at the statement, that would have prompted a post from you on the lines of "Alex Salmond ignoring obligations he had already made in Scotland to sit in Westminster listening to David Cameron making a statement which was not going to lead to a vote. and he
shows his complete disregard for those who voted in him (don't you mean him in?)
to represent them and the country"
Regarding the "displayed for a week" assertion, I can't find anywhere that says that, but I'm sure you will provide me with a link to your favoured opinion-forming media to see it for myself. I have to say I am surprised it is going to be on show for as long as a week, given the Portrait Gallery hasn't enough room on its walls at the best of times for all the 96,000 items in its collections...and there doesn't seem to be anything currently being highlighted into which a modern portrait of a modern Scottish politician would fit, even for a week.
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