Avowed SNP feminists who broke ranks with Sturgeon are blind to Salmond’s woman problem
Alex Salmond’s female allies are culprits of selective feminism.
The death of Alex Salmond exposed once more, and with indecent haste, the bitterness within Scottish nationalism.
While many of his political enemies paid gracious tributes, his closest allies used the demise of their beloved leader to lash out at former colleagues in the independence movement with whom they are estranged.
Kenny MacAskill, now acting leader of Alba, the breakaway party Salmond founded, even sought to blame some in the SNP for playing a part in his hero’s sudden death: “The actions of individuals and later administrations undoubtedly took their toll upon him,” MacAskill said of the Scottish government’s treatment of the former first minister.
Nat-on-Nat hostilities are nothing new – they have been entertaining the rest of us since Salmond protégé Nicola Sturgeon fell out so spectacularly with her mentor – but his passing seems to have untethered his devout followers and unleashed their anger anew.
What particularly riles them is any mention of Salmond’s flaws which revolved mostly, though not exclusively, around his conduct towards women.
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