A former senior Tory MSP has branded Boris Johnson a "idiot and a clown" after he was fined for breaching covid lockdown guidelines in June 2020.
Professor Adam Tomkins, who represented the Glasgow area at Holyrood from 2016 to 2021, mentioned the Scottish Conservatives are in "terminal decline" because of its stance over the partygate scandal.
With the native council elections throughout the UK set to happen on Might 5 Tomkins mentioned he anticipated voters to ship a "withering" verdict on the Tories.
He additionally warned Tories in Scotland that having taken the "excessive street of precept earlier within the 12 months", the social gathering's stance on the matter now regarded "not solely empty however risible".
In March Scottish Tory chief Douglas Ross withdrew his requires Boris Johnson to resign over partygate. Ross was one of many first MPs to name for the PM to give up after he admitted attending a lockdown-breaking gathering in Quantity 10.
Writing in The Herald newspaper forward of Might's native authorities elections, the previous MSP mentioned: "I count on that the favored verdict on this pantomime of a efficiency might be each bit as withering because it deserves to be.
"There are some good, gifted and principled women and men within the Scottish Conservative social gathering however, but once more, the automobile through which they insist on remaining is main them badly astray."
He additionally mentioned Scottish Labour may overtake the Tories to turn out to be Scotland's second social gathering.
Tomkins added: "All Anas Sarwar has to do from right here is to sit down nonetheless and watch as Scottish Labour overtakes the Tories as Scotland’s second social gathering and the principal opposition drive to the SNP.
"The Scottish Conservatives are in terminal decline, once more. And, this time, it's their very own fault."
On the Prime Minister Tomkins, a regulation professor at Glasgow College, wrote: "This has at all times been the issue with Boris Johnson.
"He positively exudes the sense – he wallows in it, he glories in it – that the principles simply don't apply to him. Guidelines are for different folks. Which may be fantastic in a clown or a idiot (each Shakespearean court docket had one) however not in a ruler.
"As soon as Mr Johnson reached excessive workplace the Falstaff in him ought to have been banished, completely and mercilessly (simply because the outdated soak was, as soon as Hal succeeded his father and have become King Henry V).
"Boris Johnson, an amazing Shakespeare fanatic, is aware of this effectively.
"However he has resolutely didn't act on it. As an alternative, he has presided over a tradition in Downing Road that paid little heed to the lockdown guidelines the remainder of us have been struggling underneath after which – worse, for my part – sought to prevaricate, dodge, duck and dive when the proof began to emerge."
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