You’ve gotta laugh. It’s not just Macwhirter posing with his new suit these days, it’s his pose these days as the voice of sensible, moderate, reason and Yes/No flippability.
This is the man who can see through that SNP Govermnent’s actual competence to the ‘con-trick’ it must be, because George Foulkes or Gordon Brewer told him it is.
Now, he thinks that the Scottish Tories have spines because one has resigned his government post and their leader has been dragged out at last to, kind-of, maybe, with the greatest respect, suggest, perhaps, that Dominic Cummings should consider his position, as long as the PM agrees.
As for the resigned Douglas Ross, this is the man who went Barcelona in 2017, to run the line in a Champions League match when he should have been in the Commons to vote with his leader, Theresa May, against a Labour motion calling for the controversial roll-out of universal credit to be postponed. She lost but he kept his £40 000 part-time salary.
If we’re going to talk about Tory spines, let’s wait till David Mundell shows us his.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
“If we’re going to talk about Tory spines, let’s wait till David Mundell shows us his.”
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It’s hard to see how the Cummings episode and the response to it – or rather lack of response for so long – from the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Part can play well with most folk in Scotland.
But Mr Macwhirter knows his trade. He knows he has a choice of how to ‘frame’ a narrative from among a number of different possible frames available to him. And once he makes that deliberate choice – for whatever reason – he knows how to craft the narrative accordingly.
And here he seems to be trying as best he can to extract a positive – or at least limit the negative – impact on the Tory BritNat/Unionists.
As the above blog post says: “Now, he (Mr Macwhirter) thinks that the Scottish Tories have spines because one has resigned his government post and their leader has been dragged out at last to, kind-of, maybe, with the greatest respect, suggest, perhaps, that Dominic Cummings should consider his position, as long as the PM agrees.”
The TuSC seems to be accumulating a substantial evidence base on this journalist’s and his newspaper’s deliberate choices – which they have every right to make – over how to frame political narratives in Scotland, just as it has done for some time now with BBC Scotland – ‘opening eyes’ along the way as to what is going. The issue for ‘alert readers’ is to differentiate between framing by journalists for a partisan political purpose and journalists holding politicians properly to account.
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Wasn’t aware that a bespoke suit equates to being middle of the road. Don’t remember seeing the members of Marmalade performing in their BS suits. Whilst James Page in recent years gets up on stage in his extremely (expensive) BS suite.
Hope MacWhirterer is shit at the guitar.
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