Self-propelling brain vacancy Alex Cole-Hamilton might have just recorded the shortest ever reign at the top of our Thickest Politician In Scotland rankings, but you can’t keep a proper idiot down for long.
It probably goes without saying that none of the above is even a little bit true.
The accession requirements for new EU members are laid out in the Copenhagen Criteria, a surprisingly short document outlining the core principles that the EU expects member states to uphold.
There are no specific stipulations about currency, central banks or deficit rates. What the intellectually-inhibited Lib Dem MSP appears to have done is confuse the criteria for joining the EU with the criteria for joining the Euro – something which the Scottish Government has made plain it has no intention of doing, having just literally this weekend launched its latest plans for an independent currency.
As alert readers have known for years, the EU’s requirement for member states to commit to joining the Euro is purely symbolic. One third of the bloc’s current members (nine out of 28) don’t – including the most recent, Croatia, which joined in 2013 – and most have no meaningful plans to do so.
One would imagine that a member of Parliament would feel some obligation to know such basic facts before shooting their mouths off, but luckily Alex Cole-Hamilton has a foolproof plan to avoid ever accidentally learning anything and thereby impeding his never-ending flow of factual inaccuracies.
And that’s the sort of dedicated commitment to stupid that wins leagues.
