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I don't really feel much warmth for Salmond as a person but as a politician and an orator I think he's head and shoulders above the rest of anyone in the Commons and he'll be far more effective than Milliband ever was at picking Tory mendacity apart.
Re: Boris-his presence is a huge distraction and he repeatedly makes inconvenient appeals to the worst of the Tory right. He'll spend further energy doing his best to alienate the Scottish contingent more than he has to date with his purile and offensive 'ajockalypse now' type remarks to appease them when Cameron will have to take a more conciliatory approach, and Theresa May will probably castrate him when it comes to the eventual leadership contest as she'll be playing on their darth-vader/Thatcher lusts.
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I don't really feel much warmth for Salmond as a person but as a politician and an orator I think he's head and shoulders above the rest of anyone in the Commons and he'll be far more effective than Milliband ever was at picking Tory mendacity apart.
I agree but he not the leader of the opposition so his chances are limited. Will be interesting to see him when he has the floor. I think he will need to avoid nationalistic rhetoric or he'll risk it being used as a tool to dismiss his point without having to engage it.
I think Boris will give DC a little space and wage his war against Giddion/May, but really I haven't a clue.
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Cameron will not find it that hard, Alex Salmon will have no real power with 50odd seats-he'll be no worse than Ed Balls was. Boris Johnson now has no leverage, no-one can really challenge DC now he has delivered a majority from the last 5 years shower of shit. DC will leave on his own terms