AN SNP Christmas video about Brexit, starring actor Brian Cox, has gone viral on social media.
Posted on Christmas Eve, the video is entitled ‘Twas The Nightmare Before Brexit, an alternative Christmas from the SNP’.
By yesterday afternoon, it had been watched 204,000 times on Twitter and 67,000 times on Facebook.
Cox sits by the fireside reciting a verse about Brexit and Tory MPs’ failed attempt to oust Theresa May as their party’s leader, before pointing out that in Scotland “there is another way” and that “we can be rid of this Westminster dismay”.
Comments from those who watched the video included “The most beautiful Christmas Tale I’ve heard this year” and “Anything with Brian Cox is worth watching but this is glorious”.
📖 'Twas the Nightmare before Brexit... pic.twitter.com/QToY8Ts5Mz
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