A peace of cake
GREAT gossip from David Trimble about Martin McGuinness being drafted in by the British Government to broker peace with the SNP.
Lord Trimble was told by senior sources about a Joint Ministerial Council meeting descending into a rammy.
He let slip to the Guardian: “There was a lot of bad blood. It was caused by the Scottish nationalists roaring and ranting against central government representatives, who eventually called in McGuinness for help.
“He was calm and rational, and he helped turn down the temperature at that meeting.”
From war to Whitehall peacemaker. I UNDERSTAND Alex Salmond trying to wriggle out of his “once in a generation” vow on the last Scottish referendum.
Salmond went full Trump to change history by denying he said the vote was “once in a lifetime”. What he’d said was “the opportunity of a lifetime”.
Or so he claimed for five minutes, until the video of what he said was played.
Indy-weary Scots don’t complain about the, er, slip of the tongue but when he said “once in a lifetime”, Salmond should have clarified he meant a whole lifetime.