Salmon accused over mark of respect move

The deaths of 16 people on board the helicopter that crashed in the North Sea yesterday was a tragedy.

Sometimes we forget the daily dangers that people risk on the North Sea helping to bring ashore gas and oil.

It now appears that the Scottish First minister has been accused of trying to make political capital out of the situation

According to the Times

a Labour MSP,Lord Foulkes accused Alex Salmond, the First Minister, of using the North Sea helicopter crash for political purposes by pressing for normal business at the Scottish Parliament to be suspended as a mark of respect.

Foulkes went onto say that Salmon

was behaving as a “quasi-head of State”.“The whole purpose of Parliament is to hold the government to account,My goodness, Westminster even sat through the worst days of World War Two and he wants a suspension of normal business to make himself look more important.