WE'LL put it simply: Scottish Tory MP Andrew Bowie has been busy making a fool of himself (with a cameo by Alex Cole-Hamilton doing the same).
The past week has seen daily revelations of Covid parties held at Downing Street, highlighting the hypocrisy and contempt for the public at the heart of the UK Government.
Bowie has just about stopped short of saying this makes the case for the Union by proving that the Tories CAN hold a piss-up in a brewery … but not much more than that.
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After a disastrous week, the MP tweeted: “The idea that somehow the case for ripping apart our 300 year old Union is stronger today than it was at the start of the week is utter rubbish. The case for separation is as weak as ever and @Conservatives @ScotTories will always oppose it.”
The idea that somehow the case for ripping apart our 300 year old Union is stronger today than it was at the start of the week is utter rubbish. The case for separation is as weak as ever and @Conservatives @ScotTories will always oppose it.
— Andrew Bowie MP (@AndrewBowie_MP) January 14, 2022
The fact he tagged both the Scottish and UK Tory accounts separately was quite apt – as not even their union is stronger today than at the start of the week.
The likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg have made clear exactly how much of a minnow they see Douglas Ross as.
Meanwhile, and with the Tories languishing in Westminster polls behind Labour, social media users roundly mocked Bowie for his remark.
Mate, they think you’re an irrelevant bumpkin cos you’re a Scottish MP. You keep going with the denial if you want, but the rest of us can see what it means very clearly, thank you.
— James 💜 Loxley (@oldnorthroad) January 14, 2022
To be fair, that’s not your call to make. By all means express a view. But my opinion is Jacob Rees-Mogg merely articulated the reality. He crystallised it for many Scots. - the Union is indeed more vulnerable than ever. And the PM has made clear we are not safe in his hands.
— Henry Orr (@HJBORR) January 14, 2022
— Aberdeen Independence Movement (@AIMAberdeen) January 14, 2022
It's becoming a more legitimate case day by day
— Eva Feltham 💙 3.5% REJOINER FBPE FBPA #JohnsonOut (@MyGineration) January 14, 2022
How you lot still try to defend your precious union after the treatment Scotland has been getting for years and your leader has now experienced in the last week is quite frankly laughable & sad in equal measures. You can't keep denying the reality that WM thinks you're irrelevant
— Kiki's Chocolates 🏴🇧🇪🇪🇺 (@KikisChocs) January 14, 2022
It's pretty harsh to find out in the way it happened, but it seems the members of the club you want to be part of don't value you, don't respect you and don't really want you.
— omar mohammed (@omsmohammed) January 15, 2022
And the band played on… https://t.co/WYZn6djDj1
— Morag Martin#WearADamnMask (@IbuMoragMartin) January 15, 2022
Says the man who has been hiding all week and will be hiding from his constituents all weekend. https://t.co/gwQYmy0W8c
— Indy4Scotland (@opoweroscotland) January 15, 2022
What's the word for someone who hasn't been as successful as someone their own party describes as a lightweight? https://t.co/ooOQTAjPle
— Tony Gurney (@tonygurney) January 14, 2022
Aye nae bother.
— RTS (@Bobbytsmith71g1) January 14, 2022
History shows its a matter if time. pic.twitter.com/hboRaki3Aq
Bonus points for denial go to Scottish LibDem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton.
Responding to Bowie, he wrote: “While the case for independence is no stronger today than it ever was, your boss is driving people into the arms of the SNP. Get your letter in. #1922Committee #BorisJohnsonResign”
While the case for independence is no stronger today than it ever was, your boss is driving people into the arms of the SNP. Get your letter in. #1922Committee #BorisJohnsonResign https://t.co/ewBHFdQUtT
— Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP🔶 (@agcolehamilton) January 14, 2022
The case for independence is no stronger, he assures us, while saying people are flocking to the SNP – a pro-independence party – because of Boris Johnson...
Cole-Hamilton and Bowie are about as convincing as Johnson claiming he had no idea he was attending a party.
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