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So, based on nothing you're happy to attribute his career motivations and a 24 year dedication to Scottish Independence, as a strategy of 'maximising his earnings'?
It strikes me that if he was solely focused on money he would have remained in the oil or finance industries where he could profiteer at will like so many others do?
I find it hilarious people are so eager and willing to conflate Salmond with Independence as if it was some personal conquest where he wanted to be 'Great Leader'. He's had the honour and good sense to fall on his sword as a gesture of reconciliation and humility in defeat, yet you attribute it solely to 'cashing in' to 'spend time with other people's money'.
Even if it had passed, the chances of him remaining as head of the SNP would have been minimal as he is very aware of his own unpopularity amongst a significant proportion of the electorate-even those who voted SNP. He only came back to the SNP because John Swinney was so woeful and they were at risk of collapsing, and he's always been happy to have Nicola Sturgeon there as his clear successor to ensure a smooth transition.
Really, tester-you are obviously an intelligent person and your contributions on science and technical matters are always interesting but I find it sad when it comes to matters like this you are so quick to indulge strange turns of logic.
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So, based on nothing you're happy to attribute his career motivations and a 24 year dedication to Scottish Independence, as a strategy of 'maximising his earnings'?
It's not based on nothing, it's based on observation of the political class. We shall see, if Salmond doesn't earn over £750k* in the next 5 years , either he has misjudged his worth or I'm wrong about his motivations, and I'll accept your conclusion that it's the latter.
*Adjust to whatever the First Minister earns over the same period +20%, on the assumption that with Devo-Max the bastards will award themselves huge pay rises on the spurious grounds of 'additional workload'
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That's why I said "for all the faults of our mutual history". The English population had no more choice in the matter than the Scots did, but it's still very different from conquest by arms.
As first minister, even a British politician might feel constrained from maximising his earnings from outside sources. It's clear that back-benchers feel no such compunction. Hence he needs to cash in now, albeit on a more modest scale than Plan A which was to serve one term as Great Leader and retire to spend more time with other people's money as a scaled down Tony Blair.