Robert Smith (no, not that one) in Orkney & Shetland:

The Record (not an SNP-supporting organ) reports social media posts by Smith that include from 2016 “Since the great David Attenborough legitimised calls for political leaders to be shot, why not start with this bitch?”, calling JK Rowling a "wild bitch", Christine Lagarde the “head bitch of the globalists”, Ursula von der Leyen a “silly bitch”, and just for variety, Guy Verhofstadt and Alastair Campbell “c***s” (I don't think he used asterisks).

Here's his election address, which reads like the sort of manifesto the media publish after a mass murderer's been apprehended:



People have observed that it's light on the overt racism, which might be explained by the demographics of the islands, whose islandness might also explain the lack of slurs against "boat people".

I hope people keep sharp instruments like scissors away from him. He has drunk deep from the QAnon well, and cannot cope with women - any of them, it seems.

I suspect that there's a variety of reasons for this, one being the sort of men generally labelled as "incels" being a prime target for the far right. It's also very prevalent with "religious right" types, many of whom are discovering John Knox.