Good riddance to Alex Salmond's Alba party

Описание: A party based on one man's hatred for one woman was never going to succeed

Today I’m talking about the demise of Alex Salmond’s Alba party. The party’s current leader, Kenny MacAskill, says Alba is unlikely to be able to stand candidates in the forthcoming Holyrood elections. Why did Alba fail? I argue the party was never a legitimate political project. Rather, it was just a vehicle for Salmond’s animus towards his successor as SNP leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. As such it never stood a chance with the Scottish public.

Last week I wrote about the same subject in The Times. If you’d like to read that column here’s a link:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

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