WE here at The National would like to pay tribute to one of the finest clowns that ever passed through the Westminster circus. You may have heard that former Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross is stepping down as an MSP at the next election . In classic Ross fashion, he also announced that this was because he wanted to return to Westminster.
As resignation statements go, it is classic Ross. That’s two stories for the price of one. Put simply, there are just no other Scottish politicians that deliver value-for-money like him.
Who could forget when he announced he’d scale back his refereeing work after missing a vote on Universal Credit ? Or when he called on Boris Johnson to resign, then changed his mind ? He was less politician more Big Mouth Billy Bass which had nearly run out of battery, flopping about impotently and garbling nonsense. READ MORE: Douglas Ross eyes Westminster return as he announces plan to quit Holyrood Of course, it was always more fun to be observing Ross’s shenanigans than to be on the receiving end. For instance, you’d hardly like to trade places with Kathleen Robertson, the Tory candidate who he allegedly tried to pressure into standing aside after he’d changed his mind about running for Westminster last year .
And spare a thought for former MP David Duguid (below), who was sacked on his sick bed while suffering from a debilitating spinal illness , apparently to clear the way for Ross’s Westminster ambitions. If that last one seemed a bit da.
