I am starting to understand the malice and hatred behind the attacks on Alex.
He embarrassed them. They thought it was safe to play out the referendum in the knowledge they had people on the inside to spy and sabotage.
When that poll came out with YES in the lead they realized they had made a hideous mistake and complete panic broke out.
Cameron was round seeing the Queen assuring her it would be fine, the Queen herself was out answering fictitious questions to scare the old folks, train loads of MPs arriving in Glasgow, The Vow… they crapped it. It was so visible, all hell broke loose.
They planned the referendum to be a comfortable NO and it would put the question to bed forever and a day…but instead along came Alex Salmond and Wings and others and totally ruined their fucking day. Made them look like fools in the eyes of their bosses…
Because now the opposite of what they had promised had been achieved. Despite all the destruction inflicted by Nicky and Lizzy the question of independence was still burning and much stronger than before and it was not going away. You can kill the party, you can kill the man, but you cannot kill the idea.
Alex irreversibly changed the scene and in doing so he made them look like idiots. They could not forgive him that.
Alex Salmond is a truly heroic figure in Scottish history.
All the poisonous articles after he died are testament to the fact that they fear him still.
