Alex Salmond, former First Minister of Scotland, is digging in his toes and refusing to be ‘bullied’ into resigning from his political show on RT, the Kremlin-funded television station, despite increasing criticism. His weekly radio show on LBC has come to the end of its run and is not being renewed. Though he says they are discussing other projects.
Born 31 December 1954 4.30pm Linlithgow, Scotland, he has Sun and Mercury in Capricorn in the hard-working 6th; with a Yod of an articulate and persuasive though forceful 3rd house Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct a 10th house Pisces Moon (conjunct Mars). A 10th house Moon certainly suits him for a public and political career; though a focal point Yod Moon tends to be overly defensive. He’s also got a Water Grand Trine of a lucky Jupiter Uranus in his 1st trine Venus Saturn in determined Scorpio trine Moon Mars – so self-protective, can be healing for others, not always realistic, tends to get overly emotional.
He looks dismayed at the moment with tr Saturn conjunct his Mars/Neptune midpoint and discouraged with tr Saturn conjunct his Sun – that runs till late May, returning late year. He’ll be bullish despite a few disasters and setbacks in September and October ; and will bounce again in 2019 though with a fair few upheavals running as well. 2020 sees tr Neptune conjunct his 10th house Mars which will be undermining where ambitions are concerned for two years. And he is in any event in a long haul of tr Neptune through his 10th making him directionless. He’ll never be completely down since his Jupiter Uranus will always rebound him.
Just to add that Gary Aitkenhead, Chief at Porton Down, has released a statement outlining that they can’t establish the source of the nerve agent (if it was) at all.
Boris Johnston, et al, managed to do so within hours of the incident taking place. It was Russia said he, she and it. Amazing or what?
A search of the online BBC news site finds the Aitkenhead update side by side with news of a foreign family who ‘lost’ their daughter 20 odd years ago. The big news in the UK now is the continuing Corbyn witch hunt saga. If you want to know about the Russian crisis, now yesterday’s news, go to RT to get the details.
‘Alex Salmond facing down criticism…”
Yeah the whole situation would make you laugh. Up until last year the BBC was basically regulating itself (for the last 90 years). Now it comes under the auspices of Ofcom and since then, over the last ten months or so, 41 complaints have been made against it in comparison to 15 in relation to RT (and that 15 may apply to an even longer period of time). Maybe time to consider shutting the BBC down?
Additionally dozens of UK Tory, Labour, Libdem, etc, politicians have appeared on RT, as have numerous individuals from the House of Lords and World leaders in fact. I don’t remember anyone complaining about that. Criticising them.
Alex Salmond’s programme is extremely interesting, totally unbiased and he has interviewed guests who have actually castigated Putin and the regime; the latter having no control over the content / output of his programme at all unlike practise at the BBC. He’s also an excellent interviewer who refrains from shouting over the top of his guests or interrupting them at every turn which seems to be the norm on, as an example, the BBC. He is also held in high regard at Westminster (Commons and H0L’s), the EU and UN, so I’d imagine he’ll make a ‘comeback’ when Scotland becomes Independent.
One thing for sure is that the UK media has banned anyone who supports Independence for Scotland working for them and that includes individuals who worked for, say, the BBC previously, so Alex Salmond can forget about the BBC taking him on board. Doesn’t matter that around 50% of the population in Scotland support Independence and fork out over £320 million a year (50% = £160 million) to the Treasury in London in television license fees. Doesn’t matter that the BBC then spends 95% of Welsh television tax revenue in Wales, 75% in Northern Ireland and over 100% in England, whilst spending 54% in Scotland. That 54%, just to rub the Scots noses in it, also includes the cost of producing programmes like, for ONE, the anglocentric Question Time.
It doesn’t matter either that 50% of Scots, at least, would like to see the Alex Salmond programme being shown on the BBC rather than on RT. They can forget it. Just as they, Scotland with the most powerfully devolved Parliament in the World as per Westminster, can forget about having control of their own broadcasting service. Oh no, Westminster can’t have that. Can’t have the only other Kingdom that actually constitutes the United Kingdom, per se, getting access to broadcasting. I wonder why?