NATIONAL readers have voted for a billboard of Boris Johnson calling Scots a "verminous race" as their favourite from our new campaign.
The digital billboards have begun appearing across locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, highlighting key messages that the Tories would rather you forget.
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More than half (51%) of readers voted for the billboard which highlights a poem published by the Prime Minister during his time as editor of The Spectator magazine calling the “Scotch” a "verminous race" and for Hadrian's wall to be rebuilt to "pen them in a ghetto on the other side".
It accused Scotland of “polluting our stock, undermining our economy” and said: “Suppress the tartan dwarves and the Wee Frees!”
It ultimately called for a “comprehensive extermination” of Scottish people, finishing with a reference to the Holocaust (“We must not flinch from a solution”).
The second most popular billboard with 23% of the vote was the one detailing reports that said Johnson said he would rather see "bodies pile high in their thousands" than order a third lockdown.
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It allegedly came after Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove warned Johnson that soldiers would be needed to guard hospitals overrun with Covid victims.
Johnson agreed to fresh restrictions but his frustration is said to have boiled over after the crucial meeting at No 10 in October. "No more ****ing lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands!" he is alleged to have raged.
In third place at 14% was the billboard shining the spotlight on Douglas Ross's inability to inability to multi-task in answering a question about a potential independence referendum at the STV leaders' debate.
In response to a question by STV political editor Colin McKay asking why the Tories can't look at Covid recovery and a second Scottish independence referendum together, Ross said: "You just can't Colin."
The billboard showing how Ruth Davidson has left Holyrood to join the unelected House of Lords is on 9% and Michael Gove calling The National "the worst newspaper in the world" was in fifth place at 3%.
A total of 740 National readers voted in the poll.
National editor Callum Baird welcomed the new campaign, commenting: "The Tory party might want to gloss over mounting accusations of sleaze and Boris Johnson's historic disdain for the Scottish people, but The National will not.
"While Unionists might want to kick the indyref2 can down the road, The National will continue to make the case for an independent Scotland going into this important Holyrood election and beyond."
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