Alex Salmond: Andrew Lloyd-Webber hits bum note over tax credits vote

It’s Hallowe’en weekend and Alex Salmond is in suitably delivish mood in Monday’s Courier column.

There are certainly no treats from the former First Minister for ermine-clad lord of the theatre, Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

The box office-busting Baron’s trick of jetting in from New York to vote in the House of Lords tax credits debate is deemed a horror show.

And it seems it’s eggs at the windows rather than sweeties in the bucket for Michelle Mone too.

He writes: “In America they used to say that the definition of an honest politician was one “when bought stayed bought.”

“Thus new peers and peeresses, fawningly grateful for their recent preferment, are unlikely to bite the hand that has enobled them.”

Mee-ow.

And speaking of cattiness, Mr Salmond also turns his attention to another grisly story.

It seems moggies are all out to get us, leaving him purring with glee.

Isn’t there a famous feline denizen of Downing Street after all?

Read Alex Salmond’s wickedly good column, only in Monday’s Courier.