Our thanks to Steve for this. An extract:

Mr Salmond set up a crowdfunding page to raise £50,000 for his legal case, raising more than his target within four hours. [J4MB: The page is here.]

Mr Salmond’s SNP colleagues defended him asking the public for money to pay for the judicial review in his resignation letter but Scottish Labour accused him of “abusing his power and dragging Scotland into the gutter”.