Those rumours about Salmond standing in Kirkcaldy can’t be true

BBC News:

SNP leader Alex Salmond said Gordon Brown was a “big feartie from Fife” who had lost credibility.

Excuse me!

I guess that’s put the final nail in the coffin of the rumour that Alex Salmond was thinking about standing in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.

Any more of that kind of patronising from the Edinburgh elite and this proud Kingdom will have to start thinking about forming its own movement to gain independence from Scotland.

Via Angus Nicolson, who adds:

In other news: Condoleeza Rice said Kim Il-Jung was a “speccy git from Pyongyang”, Osama Bin-Laden said George Bush “did a poo in his pants”, and the Burmese Junta reacted to global condemnation by saying “Nyah, hyah, hyah!” and sticking out their tongues.

3 comments

  1. Hmm, i don’t know if you’re reading Alex’s words correctly.

    I thought he added the “Fife” part not in any derogatory way but to perhaps highlight that Gordo “The Feartie” Brown was showing distinctly un-Fife-like characteristics by running away from a challenge.

    Can’t say it was Alex at his finest, but I think that’s what he was getting at. Just thought I’d say since it seemed to be the total opposite of how you took it which is rather interesting.

    If you like that sort of thing…… 😉

    And if you happen to like that sort of thing, is there a difference between an opposite and a “total opposite”?

  2. Can’t say it was Alex at his finest, but I think that’s what he was getting at. Just thought I’d say since it seemed to be the total opposite of how you took it which is rather interesting.

    I took it the same way as Duncan, to be honest. It’s poorly-worded in any case, but I think it’s more poorly-worded if you assume it means Salmond calling Brown “un-Fife-like”. You’d need a lot of inflection to make it mean that when speaking, which you’d think would’ve altered the way it was transcribed.

    Of course there’s nothing that says that the transcription is accurate.