Crossofstgeorge Debate

[Tommy England]

..........to lobby France to give jobs to Scotchers!


We will NEVER be shut of them now they have got a taste for power.

Salmond blasted over meal sale.
£9k Alex meal ‘not in rules’.

ThE row over Alex Salmond’s £9,000 lunch for sale intensified yesterday.

ALEX Salmond was caught on film joking about taxpayers footing the bill for a trip to Paris.
The First Minister was speaking at an SNP auction bash - which sparked the Lunchgate scandal.

Mr Salmond told guests: "At the weekend, I'm going to Paris. "

"I'm going on your behalf - and I'm going at your expense."

Last night his antics - caught on an amateur recording - were blasted.

Lunch for sale ... Salmond and Sturgeon at bash.

Mr Salmond was already under fire over the event after a lunch date with him at Holyrood was sold for £9,000.

Another punter paid £2,000 to dine with Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Labour MSP John Park claimed Mr Salmond had "demeaned" the office of First Minister.

He said: "It is absolutely sickening to see a video showing access to the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister being auctioned off to the highest bidder for SNP funds.

"His boasts at the same dinner about flying to Paris at taxpayers' expense when many families are struggling just adds salt to the wound."

Scots Labour leader Iain Gray added: "Clearly the First Minister has to travel abroad from time to time but his comments about abusing the public purse are an insult to ordinary hard-working people.

"Even if it was supposed to be a joke he should show more respect for the office and the voters."

Mr Salmond has cancelled the Holyrood lunches.

They had been sold off to boost the Nats' fund to fight the Glasgow Central Westminster seat.


Footage from the event at the city's Kabana restaurant shows Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon laughing and lapping up the applause as Humza Yousaf, who works for both politicians at Holyrood, conducted the auction.

Yesterday, it emerged a further three lunches at Holyrood had been auctioned off by the Nats.

All five events, which raised £12,500, have been axed.

Holyrood bosses are to examine rules over the use of the MSPs' restaurant.

A spokesperson for Mr Salmond said last night: "He is in France to promote Scottish jobs and investment."

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2843530/Alex-Salmond-jokes-on-film-about-taxpayers-paying-for-his-trip-to-Paris.html

[egbert]

[Lance Dragon]