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Originally Posted by Chris
Comments like that are hardly going to be made during a minuted meeting.
This was an off-the-cuff comment by Wee Nippy, either on the way on or the way out of the meeting room. The Scottish "government" has denied this in carefully worded terms. The French ambassador has no obligations to the British public or our political conventions so is free to deny at will anyway.
You can be absolutely confident that this actually happened, not least because a weak Tory government opposed by a strong SNP contingent is exactly what everyone knows is the best scenario for the Nats and their only real reason for existence, namely to break Scotland away from the UK. Playing nicely with a Labour government doesn't serve that purpose. Heroically fighting Scotland's corner against the evil (English) Tories does.
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So you accept the Torygraph version which seems to be a second hand report of an overhead conversation that may or may not have taken place.
Just because that may be the best scenario for the Nats does not mean that the words were actually spoken by the FM. It really is very shoddy journalism from an increasingly shoddy rag.