This was Scottish Tory uberdunce Jamie Greene a few weeks ago, bitterly attacking the SNP for spending £22,000 on consulting the public over a policy on which the party won a landslide victory in the 2016 Holyrood election.

You might think that a government pursuing the manifesto policies it was elected on was a pretty legitimate thing to do, especially when it was asking voters for their views in order to shape that policy. Perhaps Greene was confused because the Tories have been acting as if they, not the SNP, won the election. But that raises another question.

Because if he’s so concerned about elections and public expenditure, you’d think he’d have something pretty strong to say about this:

£140m is a little bit over 6,360 times as much money as £22,000. (If you include the £1.5bn bung to the DUP that the election cost taxpayers, it’s almost 75,000 times as much.) And the Tories’ 2015 election manifesto certainly didn’t mention anything about having another completely unnecessary election two years later.

We’ve been scouring the papers and the internet all morning, but we haven’t found any comment from Jamie Greene about this utterly pointless waste of taxpayers’ funds by his party. We’re sure he’s furious, though, so we’ll bring it to you as soon as we do.