Alex Salmond arrested

The Guardian says: "It is not yet clear what charges he faces or when he will appear in court." BBC has similar. I am not sure how you got he was arrested for allegations of sexual assault.

holycrap i misread .

Will any of this spill over into the wider SNP?

From order-order, here are the list of charges. Fairly impressive.

Quite the stack of charges, I guess court proceedings are going to take quite a long time on this one. Will have to be patient for now before we hear any news on this, assuming Salmond doesn't break down and admit everything. But he doesn't seem the type for that, really.

It's all gravy, baby. I think it more than likely is something to do with that, but who knows. They might have uncovered something fishy about his life when they conducted the sexual complaints investigation. E.g. sold Government secrets to Russia in return for an RT gig.

He's been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and two of attempted rape.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/24/alex-salmond-scotlands-former-first-minister-arrested

Pretty serious stuff.

something fishy

because's his name is close to salmon?

Figuring out a way to bad mouth the prosecution on TV and maybe bribe a judge or two would be more his style.

How long before he claims this is all a witch hunt because he appears regularly on RT? Will the latter drop his show? Or perhaps give him even more airtime.

RT have run the story and, as usual, have left the resident HYS staff to generate conspiracy theories, create obfuscation and generally discredit Western news coverage and the Liberal-Democratic statutory machine.

Nicola Spungeon has seen the scales fall and has given up trying to pour oil on troubled waters.

Some say there is no smoked salmon without a fire. Still, RT have taken the bait. Seems like the ex-politician will soon be poached.