In Holyrood, yesterday, Alex Cole-Hamilton expressed his heartfelt empathy for the poor, risking deselection:

Having given the SNP an opportunity to remind us of what they have actually done to redress the effects of the Conservative/LibDem Alliance’s austerity programme, voted for enthusiastically, more than some Tory MP’s did, by his leader, his coat is surely on a shoogly peg when she finds out.