Alex Salmond sailed into the chamber with his usual air of confidence for his final session of First Minister Questions.

Having seen off Jack McConnell, Wendy Alexander, Iain Gray and Johann Lamont, it fell to Jackie Baillie, in the absence of a Labour leader to take Mr Salmond to task for the final time.

She dispensed with any pleasantries and proceeded to try and take the wind out of those sails as the good humoured poking turned to accusations of obsessions and a legacy of failure.

Had she been appearing to offer a farewell handshake, she promptly withdrew it to thumb her nose at the departing First Minister.

It was all good natured at first with Ms Baillie asking Mr Salmond if he could use one word to describe his tenure.

"No" said Mr Salmond. "One word seems hardly adequate".

Then it got serious. Ms Baillie said when he goes, so to should Alex Neil, Mike Russell and Kenny MacAskill, "given their record of failure" she said.

Mr Salmond has been here before though.

He said during his time Labour had called for the resignation of each one of his cabinet secretaries, but not him. "And I'm the one resigning," he laughed.

Then the focus shifted to his successor. Nicola Sturgeon was accused of failings over child poverty and fuel poverty.

Again he has a ready retort and he enjoyed using it so much you just knew there was something about this weekly joust he was going to miss.

"Changing leaders" he said was "not Labour's strong point at the moment," given the nature of Johann Lamont's departure.

But Mr Salmond's best asset is knowing his best weapon, his opponents weaknesses and knowing exactly when to use it.

So when Ms Baillie, asked the last of her four questions and said he was so blinkered by his obsession with independence that he was "leaving Scotland more divided than ever" he was ready to pounce.

He rounded on the Labour Party with his final parting shot "people in Scotland don't know what it stands for but they know who it stood with."

The alliance with the Tories during the referendum he said meant they were "destined for destruction."

Questions followed from Ruth Davidson, Willie Rennie and a handful of backbenchers.

The final question came from Murdo Fraser following up on a question about renewable and energy policy form the Greens.

The Last word in the final sentence of the final answer from Alex Salmond. Well it was "Westminster" - was it a sign of where he will pop up next?