Never mind Clive Lewis – what about the racism and sexism alleged of these Scottish Tories?
Ruth Davidson’s party has seen a number of candidates criticised for their comments.
This Writer is no fan of Nicola Sturgeon – but I would never advocate the application of “a cattle prod up her nether region,” as is alleged of Scottish Conservative Ken MacBrayne in the article quoted below.
Anyone reading – or hearing – such a comment can easily tell that it is not only sexist and misogynist but actively threatening to a named individual.
Contrast that with the comment by Clive Lewis, about which the right-wing news media have been crowing throughout the weekend. While it was certainly offensive (and Mr Lewis has apologised), it was made in jest with no offence intended, to a man, and nobody female who was at the event has come forward to say they took offence.
Yet Conservatives (and some others) are directing their outrage at Mr Lewis, and not Mr MacBrayne.
If this seems remotely reasonable to you, I would strongly advise you to reconsider your own attitudes.
Tory MP Nusrat Ghani has said she will call for an urgent debate on the words spoken by Mr Lewis, and I repeat my desire for her to do so.
Then we can all enjoy the spectacle as the Conservatives are forced to explain why they think Mr Lewis deserves to be pilloried but Mr MacBrayne does not. I’m buying popcorn.
Ruth Davidson’s Scottish Tories have been rocked by yet another scandal after a council candidate was forced to apologise for xenophobic remarks.
Now at least SEVEN of the party’s candidates have found themselves making recent headlines for all the wrong reasons.
In a now deleted tweet, Todd Ferguson, a Tory candidate in Dalry and West Kilbride in North Ayrshire seemed to suggest the views of his SNP rival were irrelevant as she comes from Holland.
“I asked the local #SNP candidate why they supported the break up of the UK, being Dutch. The answer I got was that her partner is Scottish,” he said.
He then followed it up with another tweet saying: “Perhaps she forgot Market Garden”, a reference to an allied military operation in the Second World War, where large swathes of Holland were liberated from the Nazis.
After The National alerted Scottish Tory HQ to the tweet, Ferguson deleted the comment, and posted an apology saying: “I sincerely apologise for a recent tweet of mine that may have caused offence. The tweet in question has since been deleted.”
Ferguson is far from the only Tory who has caused concerns. Ken MacBrayne, a candidate for the Tories in Benbecula, was suspended after party bosses were alerted to a series of vile comments about Nicola Sturgeon on his social media.
The 72-year-old described the SNP leader as a “stupid little cretin” and a “silly wee cow”.
He also asked: “Why can’t someone stick a cattle prod up her nether region?”
His Facebook also contains a series of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant entries, including a string of posts by extremists Britain First – one warning of a religious war in the UK and Europe.
Roxana Iancu, the party’s candidate in Glasgow Govan, home to Scotland’s biggest mosque, called for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to be hanged for her pro-Islam politics.
Candidate George McIntyre told Muslims concerned about gelatine in flu inoculations to “shut your whinging [sic] mouths, no wonder people get sick to the back teeth of you! If you are that way minded go and live in a Muslim country where you do not get any free preventive medication.
“Oh but you won’t do that will you…. ungrateful baskets I’m sick to the back teeth of them.”
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is this not what tories think of everyone except the rich,they use cattle prods in the terms of sanctions, weak excuses etc but when it comes to things like tax for the rich, offshore tax havens that get found out by accident, miss management and unprofessional conduct ie wca assessors and decision makers, a under funded NHS despite a lovely red bus of lie, all coming from the words of the strong and stable parrot that believes in it wildest fantasy that it is building a country for everyone, so who really needs a cattle prod, tory, how strong, wire it up to the grid and allow certain MP’s to claim expenses on the electricity bill, they do, New logo required, weak , pathetic, horrid, mismanaged, incapable, unnacountable, six words for the next tory election campaign, any more please!!!
and yet there is never any outcry when a middle class white Christian heterosexual married male with children has any comment made about them.
There’s plenty more of them where they come from.
I wonder why you say you are no fan of Nicola Sturgeon? As you do not live in Scotland you do not need to pay any heed to her. She leads the best government Scotland has ever had, not perfect, but most people in Scotland appreciate what she and her government have done for us. Before you reply to this, I would like to point out that I was born in England and lived in Scotland for most of my life. I have some experience of living in England and know my own preference is for Scotland. I see the contempt that the people of Scotland and the country iself, is held in by a few in England. Most of my friends in England do not take that position, though quite a few of my family in Somerset are very patronising! Let the Scots vote for their own preferences.
As I live in the United Kingdom, of which Scotland is a part, I must pay a large amount of attention to Nicola Sturgeon – she is a politician who wants to split up the union.
Please bear in mind that we all live in the same nation and that events in Scotland affect the rest of us too.