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    Salmond is in town early in the week when McAllister, the son of a soldier who was raised on Ardbeg Street on Glasgow’s southside, is detained unavoidably in parliament. "I’d be going too far if I said Alex Salmond was known outside political circles here ... You might say that’s the diplomatic answer." You’re left wondering what common ground Mac, as he is known in Germany, and Salmond might have had anyway. Full Article at Times Online
    I’d be going too far if I said Alex Salmond was known outside political circles here ... You might say that’s the diplomatic answer.
    – David McAllister SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
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The Scot that is tipped to lead Germany
  1. Every so often I like to look up his website and see if he has any new policies or presentational ideas I can copy.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  2. I really don’t know why British Conservatives do it
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  3. My mother tells me I gave a speech in my school as a nine-year-old during the general election of 1980 ... The teacher phoned my mother to ask what was happening at home.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  4. I think the BBC did the right thing there ... Our experience in Germany has shown us you handle these people in two ways: you try to prevent them speaking, but if you must let them speak you do so in the hope that they unmask themselves.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  5. Well, the Luxembourg prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, is a very good candidate, too ... It would be hard for me to choose between him and Tony Blair. There are a lot of liberal-Conservative governments in Europe, so that might speak against Blair. On the other hand, he is highly respected here, espe...
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  6. Your debate culture is so unlike ours ... We are very earnest, very measured. You listen to one German politician and you’ve heard them all. British politicians are so inspiring. We think Westminster is something very special, lively and entertaining.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  7. Such a very good slogan ... It is a pity it doesn’t translate into German.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  8. It’s difficult to say what my father might have believed politically
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  9. It seems to me there are very good reasons to keep the union ... Devolution was a right process; it’s certainly something we in Germany are interested in greatly, but this is a time when the countries of Europe should be growing closer, not splitting up after 300 years together. Breaking the union would...
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago

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