Video: Alex Salmond's LSE Talk on Scottish Independence

Below is the video, and the podcast can be heard here. Salmond makes a pretty persuasive case and I wouldn't be surprised if, given enough time to make it, we see an independent Scotland someday.

Speaker(s): Alex Salmond MSP
Chair: Professor Paul Kelly

Recorded on 15 February 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Alex Salmond is the first minister of Scotland. He was born in Linlithgow in 1954. He attended Linlithgow Academy before studying at St Andrews University, where he graduated with a joint honours MA in Economics and History. He became the first ever SNP First Minister of Scotland in May 2007 and won the Aberdeenshire East constituency at the May 2011 election, when the SNP won a majority of seats of in the Scottish Parliament. MSPs re-elected him unopposed for a second term as First Minister on May 18 2011.