Douglas Ross feels sorry for ‘industrial language’ in Holyrood

• Douglas Ross apologized for using “industrial language”.
• In response to protesters interrupting FMQs.
• After Stephen Flynn used the same obscenity at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Douglas Ross has apologized for using “industrial language” at First Minister’s Questions when it was interrupted by a protest.

Shouts came from the audience while the Scottish Conservatives leader was discussing the government’s proposed deposit return scheme.

Immediately before to the proceedings being put on hold, Mr. Ross was overheard cursing angrily into the microphone.

This year, protesters against climate change have frequently interrupted FMQs.

Mr. Ross stated that the audience members were “quite fed up by such infantile behavior” when the cameras started to record the debate again.

He said: “I have to say it is becoming very tiresome these constant interruptions in First Minister’s Questions.”

Mr. Ross apologized before moving on to his next query.

He said: “It’s been brought to my attention that I perhaps used industrial language in response to the protesters who interrupted the session earlier.

“And to you and the chamber and everyone listening, including my mother probably, I apologies for that.”

The outburst occurred the day after Stephen Flynn, the head of the SNP at Westminster, was overheard using the same obscenity at Prime Minister’s Questions.

When Labor leader Keir Stammer mentioned the comedy series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet from the 1980s, about a group of British construction workers who fled the UK in search of employment in Germany, he was replying with perplexity.

Sir Keir referred to predictions suggesting the “average family in Britain will be poorer than the average family in Poland by 2030”.

“If the Tories limp on in government we’re going to see a generation of young people learning to say ‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’ in Polish, aren’t we?” said Sir Keir said.

In the House of Commons live feed, Mr. Flynn could be seen addressing his SNP front-bench colleagues while using the expletive.

Later, Mr. Flynn conceded it was a “wee error” in a statement to Radio.

He said: “I think I maybe spoke for the public at that moment if I’m honest, because I think all of us were thinking ‘what is Keir doing?'”

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