It's been par for the course for terminally online headbanging ScotsNats to dismiss this sort of thing as an unfounded smear by the perfidious Sassenachs for years,
but that explanation is rather scotched (so to speak) in this case by the fact he's admitted it.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 26 May 2026, 12:21, archived)

Yes, I was amusing myself earlier by looking up some of the outrage when the tent went up.

(The Porcupine From Purgatory Ningles, mateyplops! How are the kids? *smoosh*, Tue 26 May 2026, 12:29, archived)