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Watching the BBC documentary/tribute to Alex Salmond tonight for the sake of form watching and to see who's absent.

Participated:

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, former MP
Geoff Aberdein, advisor
Ian Blackford, former MP/SNP Westminster leader
Libby Brooks, Guardian journo
Gerard M. Burns, artist
Roseanna Cunningham, former MP/MSP
Sir David Davis, MP
Kenny Farquharson, Times journo
Kenny MacAskill, former MP/MSP
Lord Jack McConnell, former MSP/First Minister
George Osborne, former MP/Chancellor
Lesley Riddoch, "journo"
Elaine C. Smith, actress
John Swinney, former MP/current MSP and First Minister
Eilidh Whiteford, former MP

Of the above, all looked good apart from Kenny MacAskill who looks awful for a man of 66.

Perhaps not a surprise to see Nicola Sturgeon and Humza Yousaf not participating. A little more surprised to see Angus Robertson not on there.

Absentees that I'm more interested in –

Henry McLeish, 76, former First Minister
Alasdair Morgan, 79, former MP/SNP Westminster leader/Deputy SNP leader
Dennis Canavan, 82, former MP and Yes Scotland chair
Sir George Reid, 85, former MP/MSP/first SNP presiding officer
Jim Sillars, 87, former MP and Deputy SNP Leader

Food for thought...

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Jim Sillars health went downhill after Margo died. Reading between the lines of mutual friends (who were furious the press kept quoting him over the SNP collapse as "he's no in a position to remember what he says") bit of mental decline.

 

Dennis Cannavan looked very frail last we saw him, pre-lockdown.

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