Q Manivannan: “This clip has been clearly misrepresented and taken out of context from a much longer interview.”

Enough of them have said problematic things about me, enough of them have supported people who say horrible things about me," Manivannan said.

That's how it was received by the parliament, by pretty much every single other member of parliament who isn't in Reform, which is the one and extremely incredible thing that's happening in Holyrood right now," they said.

I'm not going to name any names, but literally there has been at least a member from – usually multiple – coming in to say: We will have disagreements, but ignore this. This is not what you were here for. You were elected in by your…

There are people who have lived here all their lives who wouldn't want to run for council, it's not what their line of work would be.