It’s no reflection on the individuals, but with only five days to go before this dreary Scottish Parliament election campaign is over, how many voters recognise their MSP, never mind the candidates from which they must make their choice?

I imagine more than a few of our representatives might at one time have expected facial recognition in the street on a par with the King and Queen Camilla, but the sensible ones will have learnt that only the relative handful of voters who follow politics closely know who they are. Fewer care.

Of Edinburgh constituency MSPs Angus Robertson, Ash Regan, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Ben Macpherson, Gordon MacDonald and Daniel Johnson, maybe the first three would ring bells – a senior SNP minister, an ex-SNP minister and rebel, and the Lib Dem leader – but the others not so much.

And by this time next week at least two will be gone, Mr MacDonald into retirement having risen without trace and Ms Regan having at least had the guts to stand up for what she believed when push came to shove on reality-denying gender recognition reform, but is highly unlikely to be rewarded with a seat as an independent on the regional list.

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The polls suggest it could also be goodbye to Messrs Robertson and Macpherson, the SNP’s former Westminster leader and current culture secretary having his coat peg shoogled by the Greens’ Lorna Slater in Edinburgh Central, a constituency which has acquired student bedsit land in Sciennes and Marchmont, and less than........

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