Following revelations this morning that the Convener of the Crofting Commission, Colin Kennedy, requires a comfortable chair at meetings to aid his “posture, conduct and demeanour” followers of @CroftingLaw on Twitter started to have some fun.
In keeping with the headline of the original blog post we got the hashtag #achairfitforaconvener from @Janiceeem56:-
Is this more to your liking, sir? #achairfitforaconvener pic.twitter.com/xIqCcSWdVS
— Janice MacDonald (@janiceem56) 10 September 2016
With the accompanying image:-
@CrabbitCrofter started the hashtag #convenersthrone:-
@_JamieMcIntyre @sweenyness @CroftingLaw News. @CroftingScot release photo of new arrangements for #convenersthrone pic.twitter.com/BsN5hcbxwY
— Crabbit Crofter (@CrabbitCrofter) 10 September 2016
With the accompanying image:-
The Crabbit Crofter clearly thought that a portable chair would save the Crofting Commission some money:-
Hilarious! Instead of @croftingscot sending staff to check seats, should travel everywhere with a #convenerthrone https://t.co/Vr8usWzlTt
— Crabbit Crofter (@CrabbitCrofter) 10 September 2016
Meanwhile @_JamieMcIntyre thought we needed to get #faultyfurniture trending:-
@CroftingLaw Time to get the #faultyfurniture hashtag trending……
— Jamie McIntyre (@_JamieMcIntyre) 10 September 2016
This would jokingly reference excuses for things that happened being down to faulty furniture e.g.:-
@CroftingLaw BREAKING: Andy Murray’s exit from US Open due to courtside chairs being wrong height for changeovers #faultyfurniture
— Jamie McIntyre (@_JamieMcIntyre) 10 September 2016
But there is, of course, a serious side to all of this as highlighted by @AlisonMacleod3:-
It’s mad (and very sad) that the Crofting Commission has got itself into this state! https://t.co/W4H07vipLj
— Alison Macleod (@AlisonMacleod3) 10 September 2016
@Linda_60_B Such a lot of potential for crofting in our remote communities, need to get out of this mess & move on to achieve that.
— Alison Macleod (@AlisonMacleod3) 10 September 2016
But the answer to that has not, so far, changed:-
@FergusEwingMSP needs to step in now + get @CroftingScot out of this mess Only option left.+ before election process https://t.co/jLAHiW5rZY
— Crabbit Crofter (@CrabbitCrofter) 10 September 2016
hahaha thats hilarious !
I can see him in my minds eye, he will be livid, he will be driving around Coll like a mad thing and grunting at everyone who dare look in his direction, better watch out the convener is loose..lol
“…the Crofters Commission…deals…with crofting difficulties by sending commissioners and staff from its Inverness offices to faraway crofting townships where those same commissioners and their aides, by means of the hearings they hold there, dispense justice to the natives as if commissioners were, for all the world, colonial district officers in 1920s Kenya” – Professor James Hunter to the Scottish Parliament, 2010