A GLASGOW Tory MSP hopeful has criticised the SNP for “taking responsibility for nothing” as he attempted to shame nationalists by doing 18 pull-ups.
Twitter users delighted in the stunt which saw 56-year-old Craig Ross perform the impressive feat on camera.
The video has since been deleted but that has not stopped social media users re-uploading it to poke fun at the Glasgow Southside candidate.
Ross wrote on Twitter: “I’m nearly 56. Here’s me doing 18 pull-ups. I’ll guarantee you that none of the SNP’s candidates for Holyrood 2021 will be able to do anything similar.
“How do I know? Because their lives are full of excuses.
“Everything is someone else’s fault.
“They take responsibility for nothing.”
He is hoping to unseat the SNP’s Justice Secretary, Humza Yousaf, at this year’s Holyrood elections in the race for Glasgow Pollok.
Christina Cannon, an SNP councillor and a list candidate for Glasgow, admitted she “probably” could not achieve 18 pull-ups but said: “I used to be a gymnast so I’m sure I could do something equally as impressive.”
A policy and campaigns worker for the Scottish Greens mocked Ross on Twitter, saying: “New main character of the day is ‘weird Tory pull-ups guy’”.
Another independence supporter, based in Edinburgh, said: “A Tory doing pull-ups to own the nats, I’m already having a good feeling about 2021.”
Ross was not available for interview but a Scottish Conservative spokesperson said: “This was a light-hearted video making a point about the SNP’s tired strategy of blaming the UK Government for everything in order to distract from its litany of failures during 13 years in charge of health, education, justice and other fully devolved matters.”
The SNP has been approached for comment.
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