Anas Sarwar recently won 'politician of the year'
CURRENT news items seem to range from endless depressing stories of war to no less disturbing ones of shortages and human misery.
Reading my Sunday National it was therefore something of a surprise – light relief even – to learn that Anas Sarwar, the millionaire leader of the workers’ party, has been awarded the title “politician of the year”.
As the leader of a party which can only muster one MP in a field of 59, and two MSPs (in first-past-the-post) in a field of 129, I found myself wondering what you would have to do to earn the title “most unpopular politician of the year”.
Amid the pervading gloom, humour is certainly not dead. Thanks to The National for running the story.
RG Clark
Gorebridge
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