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Salmond 'has weak points'



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Published Date: 30 July 2008
LABOUR leadership contender Iain Gray today claimed First Minister Alex Salmond had "feet of clay".
The East Lothian MSP, who will officially launch his bid to succeed Wendy Alexander tomorrow, said he believed he was well placed to give Scottish Labour a fresh start and take on the SNP.

Asked in a radio interview about going head to head with Mr Salmond, Mr Gray said: "He is a big political operator, but I think he really does have feet of clay.

"There are certainly weaknesses and vulnerabilities we must expose."





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  • Last Updated: 30 July 2008 10:05 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Scottish Labour Party
 
1

subrosa,

30/07/2008 12:10:19
Oh dear Mr Salmon, how do you manage to run around the country, speaking to us as you are doing, with feet of clay?

Rather a silly choice of phrase wasn't it Mr Gray?
2

steve 1511,

aberdeen 30/07/2008 12:36:59
alec salmon has twinkle toes when he deals with the eejits who call themselves labour msp.if the greatest intellectual in labours scottish politics ie,wee wendy the bungs,was given the runaround on a weekly basis what change do the dunderheids who vie for the leadership of the sleaze and corruption liebour party at holyrood have
3

Megan H,

Balerno 30/07/2008 13:10:46
Better to have feet of clay than a head full of clay which appears to be what is in the man from Currie's head
4

Jwil,

30/07/2008 16:23:13
Iain Gray. I can't wait to see him sweat again.
5

Joe Smith.,

Moscow 30/07/2008 16:28:42

Iain Gray little barking doggie.

Woof woof!
6

I love to eat Sellotape,

30/07/2008 16:53:26
"alec salmon"?

That'll be "feet" of seaweed, then.
7

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 30/07/2008 17:01:49
I'd say that the two main waek points Alex Salmond has are Kenny MacAskill and Shona Robison.

One is a total looney who belongs in a second rate Monty Python sketch (if there is such a thing) and the other wants to "de-normalise" a significant minority of the Scottish population.

If he sacked that pair, he probably be a lot better off.
8

Fanling,

Switzerland 30/07/2008 18:55:14
Name-calling rather than intellectual rigour by doomed Labour pigswill can only hasten their departure and long-term exile from the political scene. They are a disgrace.

#6 Sello
Damn. You beat me to it!

#7 Fuel Head
Don't know much about Robison but MacAskill is a serious liability. He is embarrassingly useless, operating one-man policy on the hoof. Salmond needs to ditch him sooner (in a claypit preferably) before he destroys the organisation that has given him an undeserved political lifeline.
9

a proud doonhamer,

Dumfries 30/07/2008 20:08:08
Feet of clay? Well I suppose that is better than a headful of cement!

The Labour leadership in Holyrood contest seems to be turning into a "who can make the dumbest statement today" contest.

So far a tie between Gray and Baron Zebedee.. and the rosy red nosed Baron is not even in the race.
10

Bravetart,

30/07/2008 23:47:28
And what better place than the EEN or Hootsmon to show these 'weak points'?

Bias? I'd just like to know what the connection is, who knows what, who has given money to Labour or what kind of hold they have to make the reporting so one-sided. I mean Labour ffs, they are a sinking ship, time to get some credibility back and grow a backbone, report the news and allow us to make up our own minds.
11

Jock Politicaljunkie,

Glasgow 31/07/2008 01:02:49


I suppose Gray has to say something. It's just that he's talking TOTAL MINCE.

I watched Prof Curtice on Newsnight on, Monday I think, talking about the slab leadership candidates. He was struggling to be polite but was none the less implying that they were political pygmies compared to Salmond. He was comparing Salmond to the likes of Blair and Hague but then didn't really know how to draw any comparisons for the viewers regarding the slab lot.

Very telling.

I think it's between Jamieson, Kerr and Gray. Charlie the illegal donation tapper Gordon and...the other one don't stand a chance.

I don't see much between the three but Jamieson may edge it as she is the only one of the three likely to hold her Seat in 2011. Kerr will lose his Seat to Linda Fabiani with just a 2.75% swing and Gray will lose his Seat to Andrew Sharp with just a 3.5% swing. Jamieson would need Adam Ingram to have a swing of 5.9% to be unseated...Mmmm, they could all go on the list, of course, but that would require a change in party policy.

12

donald,

glasgow 31/07/2008 10:37:46
Iain Gray, head of clay.
Huffed and puffed and blew away.
13

Brian Hill,

31/07/2008 13:40:41
As has been commented there are certainly weakness within the cabinet and of course Salmond himself is not without fault. However, you don't have to be Freud to know every human has more than one weakness nor Paxman to know every cabinet has weak links.

However all humans and all cabinets are capable of growing through their weak points or challenging aspects of their personality as our more positive thinking cousins in the colonies would say.

14

Brian Hill,

31/07/2008 13:48:22
Interesting how young Curtis began to change his tune as the Glasgow East campaign progressed.

Not such a strident unionist these days.
Maybe rather fancies being an 'expert' on UK TV and with an eye to that continuing sees the writing on the wall re Independence and is steering a more middle course.

I mean who is going to employ an 'expert' who completely misreads the signs of a nation heading for Independence?
15

Ian down under,

Kawerau 01/08/2008 23:12:58
a salmon has fins, not feet
16

Ian down under,

Kawerau 01/08/2008 23:13:11
so does a sturgeon
17

Ian down under,

Kawerau 01/08/2008 23:14:06
Good cod, Scotland will roe the day they ever elected this lot. Where did they trawl them up from.

 

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