MUCH scratching of heads at Edinburgh airport yesterday, as Alex Salmond and some of his business chums staged a stunt about attracting entrepreneurs to an independent Scotland.
Alas, it was not Bill Gates who emerged from International Arrivals into the media scrum, but a lot of baffled holidaymakers back from Lanzarote. Still, at least the rain was familiar.
THE First Minister was then quizzed by reporters about Sunday's protest by Yes supporters at the BBC HQ in Glasgow. Like the FM, the angry crowd saw the BBC as biased against Yes. "We must allow people to express a view in a peaceful and joyous fashion," intoned the FM. What the mob actually shouted was "Stick your licence up your a***." Perhaps peaceful and joyous are to be redefined after a Yes vote.
THEN there was the moment an African gentleman came over to wish Mr Salmond good luck on Thursday. A Yes vote would be "wonderful for third world people", he said. Not knowing quite how to take this, the First Minister affected an inscrutable smile.
GORDON Brown's efforts to get down with the kidz continue to honk. One recent Labour event was introduced by Jermain Jackman, winner of the BBC talent show The Voice. After the lad sang, Brown was profuse in thanking "Jermain Jackman, who won the X-Factor." Which is apparently worse than praising the Hoops at Ibrox.
WHATEVER happened to Better Together? Back in the day, there were three parties. Now it's a closed Labour shop. We hear one Tory who braved a gig with Dr John Reid was taken aback at the audience's identical red stickers. However, he was chuffed his own blue sticker annoyed them. Better Together indeed…
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