MAN OF the people, that’s Scotland’s First Minister.
But only if by “the people” you mean his personal dentist and the owner of his favourite restaurant, both of whom have been wined and dined by Eck at the public’s great expense. The Herald’s Tom Gordon dishes the dirt here.














Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 3:13 pm
Tom
You are at it again. Has it come to this. are you not very well as you are acting in a very strange way. or perhaps its the real you, and you have just been pulling the wool over our eyes.
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 3:33 pm
Clearly Tom is getting used to life in opposition as this blog degenerates into nothing more than a gossip-mongering rag.
I fear your position as the top of the Labour blogs will be rather short-lived if you keep this up.
As for the £1,400 dinner, I see the guest list included that pillar of respectability, Michael Martin, Lord of the Soviet Socialst Republic of Springburn. Now, if you’d been having a go at Alex for inviting him, I might have agreed with you.
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 4:04 pm
I can only assume the canvass returns in Glasgow NE are getting uncomfortably close for poor old Tom and his party
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 4:28 pm
Thinner than a CSW’s knickers.
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 5:03 pm
Oh dear – surely even dentists should not be forced to watch Runrig. As Dougie Donnelly once said: ‘Runrig – don’t they make you just long for Scottish independence’. (Donnie Munro is a Labour man of course and a nice bloke, but you see DD’s point.)
Bantering aside, this is bit of a coup for Tom Gordon (indeed a coup also for the Col-gate sub), and is an odd little story. Is this a normal thing to do?
I have long thought that Alex Salmond is not a normal sort of human, even by the standards of politicians (see your last blog), but surely he must have fleetingly wondered how this would look when the stone was lifted?
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 5:26 pm
Oh! Alex what have you done?
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 7:45 pm
They Do tend to worry, Tom . .
After all their verbal grand guignol over MPs’ expenses it is hardly surprising that what really worried your cod & mock tories et al in this story is the prospect of Labour holding a sound majority of the Scots seats next year.
Why? It is just possible that the Scots seats Will make all the difference . . . and why not?
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 9:33 pm
Time for Scotland to buzz off, and take the Scottish MPs with it.
How did you vote on the secret inquests, Tom – see Straw manages to slither it through at the third time of asking, under the cover of the Sun and all that stink. Good day to cheese pare even more of our rights, eh?
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 11:39 pm
Champagne and socialism – animal farm with a tartan twist.
Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 9:47 am
Dear God! Nothing like this would ever happen at the Mother of Parliaments.
Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 10:27 am
Why his dentist? He could have invited David Kerr and his plus one. Then he and Alex could have done their Laurel and Hardy tribute act as a warm-up for Runrig.
Wednesday 11 November 2009 at 11:45 am
He could stop indoors til he becomes less Salmond.
Thursday 12 November 2009 at 10:19 am
Tom Gordon was only able to write this story because the Scottish Government publishes the information about everyone who is invited to official functions.
Does the UK Government do that?
Thursday 12 November 2009 at 5:49 pm
Indy, I don’t think they do.
D’you recall Johnson B promising to save zillions by publishing all the expenditures Red Ken was supposedly incurring worked out? Not really . . .
Neow, Which administration has lost a senior politico (Deputy Mayor in fact) because of fiddles on expenses?
And was not that individual rightly blackguarded for his trip to the USA on a “Leadership” course at the expense of his previous Council’s Tax payers, just before he took Bojo’s shilling, said tax payers having also suffered his coruscating cuts in their services?
Do you think that such a man was a wise choice?
Bullingdons In Charge, Scunners On Rampage.
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