Another day, another SNP controversy

No wonder they didn’t want to let cameras in at last night’s hustings. Not a day goes by it seems without a leading SNP politician embarrassing themselves in one forum or another. Today’s hapless half-wit is MP John Nicolson, who has found himself accused of racism after tweeting a video shortly before appearing on the BBC’s Debate Night. Preparing to go on air, the member for Ochil and South Perthshire tried his hand at social media influencing, giving his very own ill-thought make up tutorial in the green room.

Addressing the camera in the video captioned ‘Politicians that do their own makeup tend to “tandoori” themselves’, Nicolson declared: ‘Now I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking John Nicolson doesn’t need make up! But for TV cameras and TV cameras you do sometimes.’ To the sound of the make-up artist tittering as she spritzed his hair, Nicolson continued: ‘If politicians put on make up themselves, they tend to go a bit overly brown – they tandoori themselves.’