SCOTLAND’S new SNP MPs are a mixture of “some good people, some numpties, some trots, some fascist scum”, according to prominent Labour activist Ian Smart.
Tweeting on Monday night, the lawyer and blogger said that the “SNP never changes”.
And seemingly neither does Smart. This isn’t the first time the Labour Twitter favourite has compared the SNP to fascists and the Nazis.
The former president of the Law Society in Scotland, who has tried repeatedly to become an MSP for the Labour Party, called Paisley MP Mhairi Black a “Nazi”.
Last June, Smart tweeted: “Are we really going to go through the entire D-day weekend without anybody pointing out the SNP were on the Nazi side?”
In a heated exchange in the Scottish Parliament over party political Twitter trolling, Scottish Labour’s Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale promised to look into Smart’s offensive tweeting.
During the election campaign, Jim Murphy, the Scottish Labour leader, said Smart had been given a talking to.
Last night, after Smart’s latest tweet, SNP MSP Humza Yousaf asked Dugdale for an update. However, Dugdale did not reply.
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