Well, you can’t say you haven’t been getting top-class guests in the Scot Goes Popcast recently – Miss PunnyPennie in the last one, and today for the sixth episode I was joined by none other than the former First Minister of Scotland, former leader of the SNP, and current leader of the Alba Party, Alex Salmond. He’s been extremely generous in giving time to several new media outlets – I believe he was interviewed by quite a few bloggers today in the aftermath of Alba’s campaign launch. I’m not holding my breath about getting the same access to Willie Rennie.
Question I asked Alex include –
* On what basis was he excluded from the BBC leaders debate?
* Is there any contradiction between him asking people to give both votes to the SNP in 2011, but saying this year that SNP list votes are wasted?
* Will he undertake to support any initiative the SNP take towards delivering independence or an independence referendum, even if he doesn’t think it goes far enough? In other words, will he ensure that the perfect doesn’t become the enemy of the good?
* Will there in future be internal democratic elections in Alba to choose candidates and the leader?
* Hasn’t Alba’s creation given controversial journalist David Leask the satisfaction of saying that his schtick about “the real SNP” and “alt-Nats” has been sort-of-proved right?
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