Mr S enjoyed the spectacle of the SNP’s orotund Westminster Ian Blackford claiming at this week’s PMQs that he is a ‘member of Scotland’s crofter community.’ The Edinburgh-born ex-banker provoked much laughter with the claim about his smallholding which he cited to justify an attack on Boris Johnson for ‘planning to throw our farmers and crofters under the Brexit bus.’
A similar claim back in 2018 that he was merely a ‘humble crofter’ prompted fellow former financier Greg Hands to remark: ‘I had a career in the City and I don’t recall him being a simple crofter at that time. Maybe that was his codename on his Bloomberg terminal as he was buying and selling financial assets.’
But as the Herald’s Unspun column today asks, which crofting community can Blackford be referring to? The former party treasurer has two homes on Skye, one of which is currently on sale for offers around £400,000.
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