Angus Robertson MP and Stewart Hosie MP - SNP Conference 2015

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Salmond Pt 3: Devo Max, The Vow (and the black black oil..?)

Alex Salmond relates the tussle with the Unionist parties over the question of a “Devo Max” option on the referendum ballot paper, in this final 30-minute part of Newsnet.scot’s series of videos recorded in Edinburgh.

The former First Minister told his audience that Prime Minister David Cameron had refused to back the Devo Max question being added because he had been advised that the independence referendum was an opportunity to destroy the SNP.

Salmond said Cameron had been told that a straight Yes: No vote would result in an overwhelming victory for the Union, with just 28 per cent of people likely to back independence.

He believes today that Labour’s big mistake was to take a similar view, refuse to take up the Devo Max option, and throw in their lot with the Tories and Lib Dems within the Better Together campaign.

The response came in a free-ranging question-and-answer session before a 250 strong audience and chaired by Newsnet’s Derek Bateman.

Questions included the impact of social media on modern political campaigning, opinion polls, Gordon Brown, ‘The Vow’ and Salmond's successor as party leader and First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

Newsnet.scot

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Salmond Pt 2: The Dream Shall Never Die

Former First Minister Alex Salmond treated an Edinburgh audience to extracts of his referendum diary – and Newsnet TV was there to share the experience.

Salmond, whose book The Dream Shall Never Die is expected to score prominently in the British bestseller lists next week, offered some insight into his family, his political roots and his Twitter doppelganger, ‘Angry Salmond’.

Personal memoirs quoted in a presentation by Salmond include his feelings on referendum night, his subsequent resignation as SNP party leader and First Minister, and his experiences during the campaign itself.

It is an entertaining account, laced with humour, introduced by Newsnet’s Derek Bateman and before an audience of 250 people.

Newsnet.scot
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Nicola Sturgeon's speech - SNP Conference Glasgow March 28th 2015

Nicola Sturgeon's speech - SNP Conference Glasgow March 28th 2015

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Derek Bateman interviews Alex Salmond

Publiée le 2015-03-26
Former First Minister Alex Salmond talks exclusively to Newsnet TV's Derek Bateman about the referendum, the rise of the SNP and where he thinks the unionist parties got it wrong. 
Recorded in Edinburgh, March 25 2015.

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Willem J. Ouweneel: Christian Philosophy and Politics

Photo: Pete Bell

Wisdom for Thinkers:

An Introduction to Christian Philosophy

Willem J. Ouweneel

Jordan Station, ON: Paideia Press

ISBN 978-0-88815-226-8

Pbk, 208pp, £7.50

Read review by Steve Bishop HERE

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Power in Service:

An Introduction to Christian Political Thought

Willem J. Ouweneel

Jordan Station, ON: Paideia Press, 2014

Isbn:978-0-88815-229-9

Pbk, 146pp, £5.75

Read review by Steve Bishop HERE

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Get GA Ponsonby's Book! LONDON CALLING - How the BBC stole the Referendum

'LONDON CALLING: How the BBC stole the Referendum'

Order book HERE

Political commentary:
'London Calling – How the BBC stole the Referendum', chronicles the descent of the BBC in Scotland from that of a trusted broadcaster bringing news into homes throughout Scotland, to an institutionally corrupt organisation so despised that thousands of ordinary Scots marched on its Scottish HQ in protest at its anti-independence bias.

The book takes the reader on a meandering tour beginning with the arrival of devolution and culminating in the No campaign's triumph in the independence referendum on September 18th 2014. The journey is signposted by significant political events all covered by the BBC. But lying beneath each news bulletin and broadcast was a pro-Union culture that was eating away at the broadcaster's integrity.

The book reveals how Donald Trump, Megrahi and Rupert Murdoch were used by the broadcaster in an attempt at promoting an anti-SNP narrative. It also reveals how headlines were altered, video footage edited, stories suppressed and debates loaded as the state broadcaster resisted the political change taking place throughout Scotland.

'London Calling - How the BBC stole the Referendum' will shock those who read it. But even more shocking is the realisation that the institutional corruption it exposes ... is still going on.

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More about the author: 

In 2010 G.A.Ponsonby created one of Scotland's most influential new media websites - Newsnet Scotland. The outlet, set up before the SNP's 2011 win which guaranteed a referendum on independence, was the first to directly challenge main stream media coverage of Scottish politics. Newsnet was also the first daily news outlet to officially back Scottish independence.

Ponsonby has written extensively on the BBC's coverage of Scottish politics for Newsnet and has helped expose many of the more questionable practices employed by the broadcaster.
In 2014, shortly after the independence referendum, he announced he was writing a book about the BBC and its role in the independence referendum. The book is based on almost seven years of experience monitoring the BBC in Scotland.

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Order book HERE