The National:

Tory MSP Miles Briggs just isn't having a good time of it recently, is he?

Briggs has shot to fame on the Scottish political scene recently for routinely getting round-house kicked during First Minister's Questions on a weekly basis... so the following experience must have felt quite familiar to him.

Briggs made a wild claim on Twitter that he couldn't get into an M&S at the weekend for people coming up to him to complain about the SNP.

It turns out he may have been referencing something Joanna Cherry said, as reported second hand. The BBC's Nick Eardley tweeted that she had made a similar statement, though the context isn't clear.

The problem is that it took Miles Briggs a solid week to come up with a funny quip in response to it. You wonder how his constituents must feel waiting to hear from him...

His response was, in fact, so delayed and obscure that it was impossible not to read it as anything other than a genuine attempt at political shenanigans. And as such, Twitter users mocked him. Relentlessly.

Here's a few of our favourites.

 Ouch.