Poor excuse for a sneaky attack on May

ALWAYS reckoned the ‘S’ in SNP stood for Sleekit... Take Ian Blackford, dyspeptic leader of the party’s ineffectual rump of MPs. He was twice upbraided by Speaker John Bercow for suggesting Theresa May was ‘misleading’ Parliament, language officially deemed unacceptable in the Commons. So he slunk off and called the PM a liar in a bitter newspaper tirade – childish, especially for a tribune of the people desperate to be taken seriously. But it was typically crass from a man who claimed on the green benches: ‘I am just a simple crofter with ten acres.’ As a successful businessman and banker, he doesn’t belt his trousers with baling twine. A politician in County Kerry had a similar ‘humble boast’ style. He drove a swish Mercedes until election time, when a beat-up Toyota and even, memorably, a donkey emerged from a barn. Don’t be surprised if the shiny convertible Land Rover Evoque that Mr Blackford has been seen in vanishes soon. And don’t be fooled, either.