Salmond discusses Alba's strategy and polling figures

But Alba claiming its first-ever MSP was far from the only thing in the former first minister’s speech. The National sat down with him afterwards to take a closer look at some of it. Here is what Salmond had to say…independence

You criticised the SNP’s plan to ask for “democratic effect” after a General Election victory, saying we “should mobilise domestic and international opinion”. What does that look like? How do you do that? I've advocated for a long time that the convention should be Scotland's elected representatives, plus civic Scotland. It should be meeting, it should be controlling the campaign to face downThe reason they've been allowed to say no is because they look at the leadership of the SNP and first ministers and know they’re not serious. They haven't been serious and they're not serious.

That is the whole point, you don't invade terrorists. What you do is you isolate them, you brand them as international criminals, and you bring them to book and to justice. In your speech you mentioned a proposal for a “guaranteed mother’s income”. What's the major difference between that and the Scottish Child Payment?

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