SCOTLAND’S SNP MPs are “ignorant” and have “no idea about anything”, according to Michelle Mone.
In a furious column for a Sunday newspaper, the Glasgow businesswomen said that Scotland is full of “hatred and ill will” because of the SNP.
Mone announced on Twitter last week that she was leaving the country. At the time the businesswoman, who created the Ultimo lingerie brand, said it was because her speaking engagements were taking her all over the world and she needed to be based in London and New York. Yesterday she revealed she would leave to stop people being cruel to her on Twitter.
She said since the referendum “the mood has got consistently worse and I now believe that the SNP’s Scotland is becoming a place consumed by hatred and ill will, a place where free speech is gradually being crushed and enterprise is despised. It is no wonder I no longer wish to live in Scotland and have moved away from the place I’ve called home for 43 years.”
After claiming that free speech was gradually being “crushed”, Mone then attacked SNP MPs for not saying things that she agreed with.
“I called them ‘SNP muppets’ and I still stand by it” she said, “The official definition in the dictionary of a ‘muppet’ is a ‘person who is ignorant and generally has no idea about anything’.
“My ‘muppets’ reference also applies to the 56 new SNP MPs who have vowed to shake up the House of Commons in the ‘interests of Scotland’. All they have done so far is whip up more animosity between two great nations who have stood together as strong neighbours for hundreds of years.”
It is not clear which dictionary Mone was using to find her definition of "muppet".
Mone – who founded Ultimo but now has only a 20 per cent stake, the rest being owned by Sri Lanka conglomerate MAS Holdings – also accused the SNP of not liking big business, writing: “The SNP’s attitude is if you’ve got money, that’s unacceptable. You should be struggling like everyone else.”
The designer, whose other business interests include fake tan and diet pills, had said during the referendum campaign she would leave Scotland if the Yes side won.
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