PRO-INDEPENDENCE journalist Ruth Wishart has alerted police after receiving a threat from a Unionist thug.
The Nationalist columnist and Yes movement veteran contacted officers after someone shoved a Union flag and a despicable message through her letterbox.
The Argyll-based columnist tweeted: “Yesterday someone took the trouble to post a Union flag through my letter box with a message suggesting pilots in bombers could use it to ID me, and it could then be hoisted when I die.
"Am gifting it to the police.”
Yesterday someon took the trouble to post a Union flag through my letter box with a message suggesting pilots in bombers could use it to ID me, and it could then be hoisted when I die. Am gifting it to the police.
— ruth wishart (@ruth_wishart) March 21, 2021
Wishart has consistently criticised the UK Government’s record while making the case for independence.
In her latest column, for the Sunday National, she urged Scots to “to wake up and smell the catastrophe”.
Wishart wrote: “If you genuinely think that a Tory Westminster government led by Johnson or his successors is in our best interests then you are probably beyond persuasion. (Some might say redemption).
“Yet that is the surefire fate that awaits a still dependant Scotland given the odds against a sufficient Labour revival to change the Westminster guard.”
The writer said the threat would “not remotely” stop her from expressing her opinions.
READ MORE: Ruth Wishart: Wake up. Scotland is in an existential fight for her life
Her social media post about the threatening message prompted a flood of messages from high-profile figures in Scottish politics.
Energy Minister Paul Wheelhouse wrote: “Hope you are OK, Ruth and that Police Scotland can trace the person who sent it.”
SNP colleague Joan McAlpine added: “That’s awful Ruth I hope they catch who did this.”
LibDem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton commented: “That’s appalling. I hope you’re ok, Ruth.”
A Police Scotland spokesperson confirmed officers were called “regarding a threatening communication”. They added that “advice has been given and inquiries are at an early stage”.
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