SHORT ON WIT AND VERY LITTLE WISDOM...
‘Thought it would have been a more interesting PMQs the first day back. Yawn…!’
On Prime Minister’s Questions in October 2009 at which Gordon Brown read out the names of 37 soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
‘Merry Christmas to all Yessers and Nawbags alike. We are One Scotland, etc.’
Post Indyref festive greetings in 2014. Wishart later said he regretted calling No voters ‘nawbags’.
‘Some of the response to the legitimate desire for a Scottish produced news
service is the Scottish cringe at its most parochial worst.’ Scottish Six dissenters dismissed as cowardly and weak in February 2016.
‘The fiends have got our rasps too.’
Horror at seeing the Union Flag on a punnet of Tesco raspberries grown by a Perthshire farmer.
‘If any other journos want to be intimidated, just let me know. We’re offering a cheap deal in gagging just now.’
From August 2016 after complaints from Wishart and fellow MP John Nicolson resulted in STV pulling journalist Stephen Daisley’s online column.
‘The Blairites are now like your embarrassing incontinent old relative stuck away in a care home who you might go and visit occasionally.’
Offending the elderly and infirm in October 2016.
‘Absolute Total W***’
Description of the Tories on a mocked-up ballot paper tweeted by Wishart last month.