Watch: SNP MSP’s bizarre poem riff

Back up to Holyrood, where the nationalists never fail to entertain. To cover up for the absence of any real policy delivery by her party, SNP MSP Kaukab Stewart has decided to, er, rap.

The Glasgow MSP was speaking in the Chamber yesterday evening about an amendment made to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Bill. She told an unenthusiastic audience that ‘once a teacher, always a teacher’ before launching into a poem she had ‘penned and dedicated’ to the children listening. Mr S hates to burst the SNP’s bubble of self-delusion but he imagines children across Scotland have a number of things they’d rather do than, er, watch parliament TV.

If Stewart remains as focused on teaching as she says she is, perhaps she should spend more of her time helping to fix the rather dismal state of Scotland’s education system. Scottish pupils have scored record lows across reading, maths and science as revealed by international PISA rankings this week – a dire indictment of Scotland’s schooling for which Humza Yousaf has refused to apologise.