It looks like Scottish politicians have more important things to do than submit any of their WhatsApps to the Covid Inquiry. Cultivating their public image seems appears more important. The Sun have tracked the IP addresses of Wikipedia edits on prominent MSPs’ pages and found them to have come from – you guessed it – Holyrood work computers. Staffers’ time is clearly being put to good use…
Paul Sweeney, Scottish Labour MSP, had his Wikipedia page edited a whopping 14 times, which included getting rid of any reference to him being appointed a shadow Scotland minister by Jeremy Corbyn. Scottish LibDem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton’s page was edited to remove criticism of his sweary 2021 outburst at children’s minister Maree Todd. Former Scottish Reform leader Michelle Ballantyne had the entire “controversies” section of her page removed. Meanwhile Holyrood computers have added Humza Yousaf’s name to a list of “notable alumni” of a U.S State Department leadership programme. If you can’t be good, look good…