How often do you throw things at the television or scrunch up your newspaper in a rage? For most people, I suspect it's when a referee makes an obviously wrong decision. For me, it's when politicians do something which is manifestly unfair or a lie.

All the main political parties have shown themselves capable of forcing me into an unplanned trip to Currys.

For the Conservatives it was when Kwasi Kwarteng announced a reduction in the top rate of income tax from 45 per cent to 40 per cent. Low taxes are an inherently good thing because they promote faster growth which is key to the prosperity of all of us but, at a time when people were struggling with living costs, any scope for income tax cuts should have been focused on families wrestling with their bills not those flying Club Class. How could a Conservative government be so stupid? Luckily, others saw that too and Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng got their jotters.

For the SNP the most recent example of many was the Michael Matheson affair. He lied. We knew that and Humza Yousaf knew that. Does anybody now believe that Matheson was not sitting right next to his children in Morocco........

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