Hamish Macdonell - Putting a kilt on it
THE award for the worst, truly the worst attempt to hitch a ride on the Barrack Obama bandwagon came from the Scottish Tories today.
If asked, President-elect Obama would undoubtedly say: "The Scottish who?"
But nevertheless, two MSPs Murdo Fraser and Gavin Brown, have decided to offer the new leader of the free world his own Obama tartan.
They are even holding a photo-shoot to publicise their event, going to a kiltmaker to discuss the possibility of creating an Obama tartan.
Shameless? That doesn't even come close to the gall of the third largest party in a small, devolved legislature in a distant part of Europe "inviting" the President-elect to Edinburgh to receive his own tartan.
Their justification for this extraordinary attempt to 'put a kilt on' a global story, it is "in recognition of his reported Scottish ancestry, traced back to William the Lion (1165-1214)."
Please, no more.
ends
If asked, President-elect Obama would undoubtedly say: "The Scottish who?"
But nevertheless, two MSPs Murdo Fraser and Gavin Brown, have decided to offer the new leader of the free world his own Obama tartan.
They are even holding a photo-shoot to publicise their event, going to a kiltmaker to discuss the possibility of creating an Obama tartan.
Shameless? That doesn't even come close to the gall of the third largest party in a small, devolved legislature in a distant part of Europe "inviting" the President-elect to Edinburgh to receive his own tartan.
Their justification for this extraordinary attempt to 'put a kilt on' a global story, it is "in recognition of his reported Scottish ancestry, traced back to William the Lion (1165-1214)."
Please, no more.
ends
Labels: Barrack Obama, Hamish Macdonell, kilt and bandwagon, Scottish Tories
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