The Houses of Parliament have experienced the word "dafties" for the first time.
It was delivered by Pete Wishart today, in reference to – who else? – the cohort of Scottish Tories, and is now forever recorded in Westminster's Hansard report.
"The Scottish Tory dafties turned up to have their votes discounted in person," Wishart said in a debate earlier today. "The Scottish Tories do nothing other than ask questions of a Parliament 400 miles away that cannot answer them, which is infuriating their constituents and is primarily responsible for plummeting relations.
"Given the glaikit looks on their coupons the other evening, we now know why they do that."
‘Dafties’ makes its Hansard debut courtesy of @PeteWishart pic.twitter.com/CSGIqaBB3r
— PARLY (@ParlyApp) March 15, 2018
Wishart might have thought he'd also be the first to use "glaikit", but he just missed out by a couple of months. Earlier in the year, David Linden, the SNP MP for Glasgow East was the first parliamentarian to use the word, in reference to – who else? – David Mundell.
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