Today in the House of Commons we witnessed the ridiculous pantomime of Ian Blackford who, using a combination of the PM's past statements and details from the Sue Gray report, called Boris Johnson a liar. He was ejected from the HoC a few minutes later. This is standard practice when one MP calls another MP a liar and Blackford would certainly have known the likely consequences of his actions.

However, I think most reasonable people, looking at the same evidence as Blackford, would have come to the same conclusion as he did. Despite this, we have ended up with the ridiculous situation where the person doing the correct thing is punished and the person doing the wrong thing gets allowed to remain and continue in office.

No wonder the rest of the world is shaking its head in disbelief at what is happening on these islands.