By Rab Bruce’s Spider

Just when you thought the #SNPBad idiocy couldn’t get any more stupid, the Scottish Conservatives have come out with an absolute Christmas cracker.

A survey of people’s exercise habits has revealed that the number of people who actively participate in dancing as a social and exercise activity has halved since the SNP came to power. The Tories, needless to say, have claimed this is due to the SNP.

What? No reflection that it might be down to people having less money to spend and cutting back on activities that cost a bit of money? No thoughts that the number of places where such activities can take place has reduced or that those places which remain are charging higher fees for renting the space? No consideration that the people who used to participate in dancing might have had changes in family life in the past eight years? Perhaps they have started their own families and have young children, which makes getting out as a couple more difficult, and perhaps the younger generation are participating in other activities?

No, none of those thoughts. I have no idea what lies behind the fall in the number of people dancing because the Tories have made no attempt to explain the fall, they have simply leaped to the conclusion that the SNP must be to blame because of a correlation between the time the SNP have been in Government and the interval between the chosen surveys.

Still, it’s given us a good laugh at Christmas, so thanks to the Tories for that. And there is good news for them because, although dancing as an activity is down, the number of #SNPBad stories is escalating day by day.

Come to think of it, perhaps that’s why fewer people are out dancing. They’re too busy killing themselves laughing at the media’s attempts to denigrate the most popular Government Scotland has ever had.