SCOTS have reacted with fury to the news that the UK Government is planning to spend millions to hang portraits of King Charles III in Scottish…
should be used for education, not for propping up the propaganda effort of an out-of-touch and increasingly obsolete institution attempting to cling to legitimacy as Scots, especially young Scots, turn their backs on it," they said.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has reportedly asked for an “exhaustive” list of every public building in Scotland which would be eligible to apply for a portrait.“I think it’s just the government treating people with contempt”, he told The National. Many others took to Twitter to react to the news, with National columnist Ruth Wishart commenting: “Oliver Dowden, the bizarre choice as Deputy PM, wants every public building to have a mugshot of King Charles ‘the ultimate public servant’.“You couldn’t make it up” commented another, while others simply tweeted #abolishthemonarchy.was also among those to hit out, saying the plans represented a"grotesque misuse of public funds".
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