MSPs rounded on Crown Office after it forced parliament to redact submission
They called for the Lord Advocate to come before the parliament to explain why
Mr Salmond was furious and pulled out of appearing before a Holyrood inquiry
Ex-Scottish first minister now expected to appear before committee tomorrow
Allies of Mr Salmond said Nicola Sturgeon could be forced to quit over claims
Meanwhile MSPs slammed the SNP as a cesspit of vipers not fit for Government
Fury at Scottish cover-up
Liam Fox: This would be a damning indictment in a tinpot dictatorship, but this is happening in a part of the United Kingdom. Given that the Scottish Parliament derives its authority from legislation passed in this Parliament, what mechanisms do we have to ensure that the conduct of the Scottish Government does not bring politics in the whole of the United Kingdom into international disrepute?
Law professor Alistair Bonnington; degeneration of the Crown into what appears to be a lickspittle arm of the current SNP Government .
Tory MSP Murdo Fraser: What this whole sorry story tells us is that we now have a Scottish government simply not fit for purpose.
Posted on February 9th, 2021
Sri Lanka’s
envoy in China Dr Palitha Kohona-Journalist Chakravarthi Raghavan
When the 134-member Group of 77, the largest single
coalition of developing countries, was trying to strike a hard bargain in its
negotiations with Western nations years ago, one of its envoys famously
declared: You have the numbers. We have the money.”
But that implicit threat – signifying the power of the
purse– did not deter the G77 from playing a key role in helping shape the UN’s
socio-economic agenda, including sustainable development, environmental
protection, universal health care, South–South cooperation, eradication of
extreme poverty and hunger – all of them culminating largely in the 17