Toby

I was going to post a picture of Toby Young, the new 'universities tsar', but for some reason google won't let me. Not to worry. If you care what he looks like (weedy, specky, beardy and a bit thick - what else do you need to know?), you can google him yourself. It won't take you long to find Toby's shenanigans on the internet, despite his attempts to delete his history.

Toby Young isn't a Scottish problem. I'm glad to say we have our own devolved education system and, all being well, Toby won't be getting anywhere near it. So why bother with him?

Well, it's just that for the moment, Scotland is stuck with a Tory government in Westminster headed up by a person with the poorest social skills I've ever seen in a politician. I've had hamsters with a better knack for getting on with people - and I've had one that ate my skirt. While I was wearing it. I can go back to the early 60s and tell you about Sir Alec Douglas Home who tried to explain the UK economy on the telly using matchsticks. Then there was Ted Heath, described by my family as an idiot and creepy with it. When Harold Wilson retired suddenly, I asked my very astute father why: He's losing his marbles, he said. And he was, due to early-onset dementia, although it's been well hidden ever since. I asked my grandad if George Brown would be the next prime minister and was told: Nah - he's a drunk.

Theresa May seems to lack the kind of judgement that ordinary people have when faced with her colleagues, never mind the opposition. My honest opinion is that she should have sacked most of her cabinet immediately after the disastrous general election of 2017. Even looking at the situation as a total outsider with no political knowledge, it's obvious May has dug a big hole for herself and is now slowly disappearing into it. She's stuck with Boris Johnson. She's going to have to make Jeremy Rhymingslang her depute. And the moron David Davis will be allowed to go on making an arse of Brexit.

And Toby Young will keep his well-paid job, despite the outrage of women, working class people and the disabled, all of whom he has managed to offend mightily on twitter. Because behind Theresa, and Boris, and Jeremy, and all the rest of the cabinet there's the utter arrogance of the Tory grandees, who know they can do and say what they like because the public - especially in the south of England - will go on voting Tory. They'll continue to describe Boris as a bit of a card. They'll still say David Davis is doing his best against the hostility of the EU. They'll go on thinking Jeremy Hunt is a safe pair of hands, despite the fact that the rest of us can see he's as slimy as hell and plans to run down the NHS till he can privatise it.

So here's a question for people in Scotland: you've seen the list of people who donate to Scotland in Union and - heaven help us all - they're as close to Tory grandees as you'll ever find in Scotland. Is this really who you want to have running your country?