The Conservative Home website ran this yesterday.

Alert readers, of course, will be able to explain at least one Scottish teaching vacancy.

(For some context, incidentally, there are 50,970 teachers employed in Scotland in 2,542 schools. If we assume the figure of 700 vacancies is correct, that means that 98.6% of available positions are currently occupied, which is what you’d expect in any profession. When posts become vacant they don’t get filled instantly – people have to apply, interviews have to be conducted, decisions have to be made, and the whole process takes time during which the jobs are unfilled. There’s currently one job vacant for every 3.63 schools in the country. 73 out of every 74 teaching posts are occupied.)

Just over three weeks separated Ms Leslie being struck off the teaching register for a long series of abusive tweets stretching back for years, and her complaining about a shortage of teachers. The contempt being shown by the Tories in leaving so little time for people to forget is breathtaking. We suppose, though, that there are some teachers Scotland’s children are better off without.