LESLEY Riddoch discusses a clip of Michael Gove from a comedy sketch show where the senior Tory talks about how terrible Scottish people are.
She wonders why Gove ever thought the sketch from Channel 4's A Stab in the Dark (which ran for one season in 1992) was funny at all and why the Tories' head of Union policy ever engaged in an act of "self-hate speech".
Gove is a Scot himself - which you can hear in his accent through the clip - but seems to have taken steps to distance himself from his homeland as he rose up the Westminster ranks.
In the clip, Gove describes Scots as "unattractive drunks" and are characterised by their "outstretched hand", asking English people for more money.
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She then goes onto show how the myths on display in the short clip have become synonymous with how Scotland is viewed and how these myths have been seen to become "facts".
Debunking the myths, Riddoch says: "These ideas have been put forward at periods of our history when the Scots have been flexing their muscles and have been trying to set good grounds for moving forward to self-government."
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