WEDNESDAYS are usually a very busy day for MPs with the pantomime that is Prime Minister’s Questions, and everything that goes along with it, taking place.

On this past Wednesday, for the first time in more than a year, I was able to ask the Prime Minister a question – I raised the ongoing Home Energy and Lifestyle Management Systems (HELMS) mis-selling that has unfolded under her watch. The UK’s Green Deal energy scheme helped consumers afford energy efficiency measures such as solar panels. HELMS, one of the firms providing the service, which has since went into liquidation, told customers the scheme was “free” when it was in fact a loan.

Households have been left struggling, burdened with unaffordable debts, faulty workmanship, and at times trapped from selling their homes. I asked her if she would compensate ripped-off customers for the money they’ve lost under a Government banner.

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This scandal is just the latest on the long line of Tory government disasters that have had a detrimental impact on the people of Scotland. Austerity, which has gone on for far too long, has left the most vulnerable people in society much poorer. Benefit cuts and the Universal Credit have just pushed more people into poverty. And as for Brexit …

We knew that in true UK Prime Minister form, Theresa May was going to make a trip to Scotland, to “sell her vision of Brexit” to the Scottish people.

At the start of the day we heard that the visit was to be to a factory near Glasgow, and it didn’t take long before rumours started trickling in. The Chivas Regal bottling plant just minutes from my office in Renfrew was the rumour that gained most traction, before it finally came out she was visiting Bridge of Weir Leather, also in my constituency.

Then came the second surprise of the day; she was to be joined by the Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell – who is, apparently, now permanently off resignation watch, despite his promise to do so if the EU withdrawal agreement made special arrangements for Northern Ireland.

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However, I was extremely disappointed that the Prime Minister and Secretary of State made absolutely no attempt to contact me to let me know they would be in my constituency. This runs counter to parliamentary convention and is indeed against Ministerial Code.

The Prime Minister is supposed to be delivering a Brexit that was about “restoring sovereignty” and respect to the UK Parliament, but the Tories can’t even show respect to the Parliament they lead!

Just after I raised a point of order on the issue, I discovered that my colleague Mhairi Black had been notified. Now, I understand Theresa from Maidenhead not knowing where Bridge of Weir is, but you would think the Scottish Secretary would, or least somebody in their respective teams. This was clearly a level of incompetence we’ve come to expect from this government, but as each hour passes without an acknowledgement of my email, or my point of order, the level of discourtesy grows.

If the Prime Minister had given me notice of her visit, I would have been absolutely delighted to arrange for her to visit any one of my constituents affected by their disastrous implementation of the Green Deal policy; or those affected by the shambolic Universal Credit roll-out; or we could have met with EU citizens who will be forced to pay £65 to remain in a country they may have lived in for decades; and so on and so on. I could have kept her busy for days, meeting with the groups her policies have affected.

Having spoken to many of these groups I know that had they the chance to speak to the Prime Minister they would have told her to go back down to Westminster, have your English Brexit if you must, but allow us a Section 30 order to hold an independence referendum and get out of this mess. After all, it’s the only solution that stops iniquitous policies enforced on us from London by governments we don’t vote for.