Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been the talk of London town this week and north of the border things are no different. The first First Minister’s Questions of the year has just concluded in Holyrood and, surprise surprise, the tech titan got a pretty prominent mention.
In a speech on Monday, First Minister John Swinney rather bizarrely suggested that if the SNP government’s budget failed to pass next month it would play into the hands of ‘Elon Musk and other populists’. Er, right. Keen to clarify exactly why Swinney decided to throw that rather odd warning around, new Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay was quick on the attack today. Taking a pop at the FM, he quizzed Swinney:
The SNP’s budget will cause misery to hardworking Scots and struggling businesses, but in the mind of Scotland’s populist First Minister, that is a price we all must pay to defeat the shadowy forces of populism.
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