The National:

ONE Scottish Tory MSP has been left visibly outraged after the SNP’s James Dornan used a Holyrood “debate” on the Queen to call into question the monarchy’s “entitlement”.

In a room stuffed with Conservatives and not many others, Rachael Hamilton had previously stood up to praise the Queen.

The Tory MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire had said people could “be assured” the Queen liked thoroughbred horses as well as ponies. She also noted that the Queen likes Highland cows.

Yes, that is really what she said.

While we could all be outraged that Hamilton wasted our time on such trivialities, it was the Tory MSP who soon saw red.

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Her moment came when James Dornan, the SNP MSP, used the debate to speak from a republican position.

While he said he wished the Queen all the best, Dornan (below) asked what the point in the motion was other than to note the monarch’s longevity.

He said that others who have not had “every support known to mankind during the last 70 years” may be more worthy of such a motion.

The National:

“No family should have the right to be treated as superior because of an accident of birth,” he said.

“They’re simply people, pampered by this class-ridden society, but still only people.”

After saying that the Queen is “of course at the peak of the pyramid of entitlement”, and highlighting the different treatment afforded to royals compared to average people, Dornan was forced to take a point of order.

The Deputy Presiding Officer, Liam McArthur, allowed Hamilton to intervene. The Tory MSP claimed Dornan had “gone slightly off topic” – but her complaint was dismissed.

The laughter in the chamber – and boomed in from Dornan remotely – left Hamilton visibly fuming.

She was then told that her interruption had not been a point of order, and that Dornan hadn’t deviated from the topic, even if he had deviated from the “spirit of the other contributions” – fawning as they had been.

The Tory MSP later responded on Twitter, commenting on The National's video of the exchange. 

"Honestly, there are times and places.." she wrote.

Dornan capped off by again saying that he wished the Queen well, but that her retirement should be the time for a debate around the abolition of the monarchy.

No doubt Hamilton will have more horse facts for us when that rolls around.