MURRAY FOOTE: The week the wheels fell off Reform’s Scottish clown car |
With Malcolm “Coco” Offord driving, this was the week that the wheels fell off Reform’s Scottish clown car.
And what a dismal week it was. Clown Show Act 1 was the unveiling of their assembled Holyrood election hopefuls. The only thing missing was face paints and wigs.
Within hours their candidate for Dundee West was suspended after it was revealed he’d been disqualified as a company director for diverting thousands of pounds of taxpayer money in Covid loans to his personal bank account.
Just the type of stand-up guy you want as an MSP deciding the nation’s finances, eh? They’ll be inviting Michelle Mone to stand for them next.
About the same time, three further candidates were exposed for extremist opinions.
Their candidate for Galloway had called for Muslims to be deported – presumably that includes prominent Reform bigwig Zia Yusuf who is the Muslim son of Sri Lankan immigrants.
The Stirling candidate from Auchterarder spread inflammatory rumours about asylum seekers moving into a former school in Perthshire.
Their Fife candidate had called former First Minister Humza Yousaf a “grandstanding Islamist moron” who is “not British”. Again, do they think the same goes for Zia Yusuf?
It gets worse. Fifteen of their........