A CLIP of former SNP depute Margo MacDonald tearing apart Unionist claims has been viewed nearly 100,000 times on the TikTok app.

The WeAreScotland account posted the video of the former MSP yesterday, raking in views and comments of support from around the world.

The footage comes from a 1977 interview with broadcaster Mavis Nicholson, in which MacDonald is confronted by two men who opposed independence.

One of the men, former Spectator journalist Alan Watkins, tells MacDonald: “It’s quite interesting that the whole motive of the Scottish National Party as it’s developed has been precisely this and it is not one, as Margo MacDonald said earlier, of national consciousness or national self-confidence, but one of, if you like, greed.

“Scottish nationalism has coincided with two things – first of all the relative failure of Britain economically and secondly the discovery of oil around the place, around the coast of Scotland, which the SNP have exploited quite shamelessly and said ‘it’s our oil’ whilst paying no attention whatsoever to the fact that Scotland has been virtually subsidised by people like me working hard in the South East and paying their taxes for years and years and years …

“So in a way I would like to see Margo MacDonald go to learn, but I don’t think I’m happy to say the consequences would be so happy as she imagines they would be.”

The other man adds: “We’re faced by a most dangerous woman, politically speaking I think. She’s dedicated to destroying the United Kingdom in the way we understand it – she’s dedicated to grabbing stuff that belongs to the United Kingdom and calling it Scottish.”

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MacDonald is asked to respond to accusations that she is “greedy” and “dangerous” – and gives the response which has been viewed and shared so many times on TikTok.

“I’m terribly dangerous. I’m terribly greedy,” MacDonald replies with a smile. “Because I’m really sick to the back teeth of seeing unemployment figures which show over 200,000 Scots out of work.

“And if you can justify to me the accusation that it’s greed for me and other people in the Scottish National Party, to want to see young Scots in jobs and able to lead a decent life in Scotland then I will accept the charge of greed.”

The men then attempt to interrupt her, but MacDonald continues: “But until you can prove to me, until you can prove to me that by managing our economy in Scotland, in a much better fashion that it has been mismanaged from Westminster, then I will accuse you of cowardice. You are afraid to face the future. I’ll say that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of losing all the trappings of what was once imperial greatness.

“Well I’m afraid that if you live in Scotland, in Strathclyde where I live, imperial greatness does not feed anybody. It doesn’t get kids into jobs.”

The TikTok clip has been viewed 85,000 times and gained nearly 10,000 likes, while politicians including SNP MP Douglas Chapman have shared it on their own social media feeds.

Commentators said they would have loved to see MacDonald up against the current Tory leader.

MacDonald served as an SNP MP for Govan from 1973 to 1974 before becoming depute leader of the party from 1974 to 1979.

The left-wing teacher and broadcaster later served in the Scottish Parliament as an SNP, then independent, MSP, from 1999 until her death in 2014 at the age of 70 following a battle with Parkinson’s.

Following MacDonald’s death a special Holyrood session was held, where MSPs were invited to pay tribute to her.

She was described by then presiding officer Tricia Marwick as a “sparkling jewel in the Scottish Parliament”.

Click here to watch the full interview from 1977.