The other day on the radio, Scotland's National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch, was asked about the effect of the Old Firm game taking place during the Scottish Government's so-called "circuit breaker" lockdown.
In his answer, he made reference to his time working in hospital and how incidents increased in the aftermath of Old Firm games. I can't remember the precise words used, but his disdain for mass-appeal football was all too apparent. (And it's not the first time that this particular figure, who is meant to be apolitical, has allowed his politics and personal opinions to cloud his judgement, but I digress.)
The SNP like to paint the Tories as posh snobs, out-of-touch with working people. But they turn their noses up at working class culture to exactly the same extent.
Though not working class myself, my wife and her family is, and you can take it from us the working class want a fag with a pint. They enjoy mass-appeal sports, especially football. They want to buy their own council house.
One middle-class MP, acting in a grossly offensive caricature of a Scottish working-class person by strolling into Parliament and impersonating Rab C Nesbitt, doesn't quite cut it if you want to show off your working-class credentials.
