Last Updated on: 4th April 2022, 01:16 pm
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Mark Fagan threatened permanent expulsion from the SNP for saying Blair McDougall should be “hanged from a lamppost”.
The troll slammed the former Better Together campaign manager in a vile Twitter post, accusing him of being a “lying red conservative”.
But the speechwriter said he doesn’t expect the party to “lift a finger” and said it wasn’t the first time he had been threatened.
The SNP later announced that it had suspended Fagan’s membership of the Central Glasgow branch, saying “there is no place for abuse in politics”.
It comes at a difficult time for the party as its Westminster leader called for the removal of “keyboard warriors” from social media over the weekend.
Fagan Tweeted:
Fagan had tweeted: “Tell us again about the benefits of voting no. Elongated red tory. You assume you should actually be hanging from a lamppost.”
McDougall said on Twitter: “Wake up when another SNP member is talking about my execution.”
He says he sits in the same seat as two SNP politicians who follow me. I don’t expect them to lift a finger.
“No SNP member had any of the other times I’ve shared SNP members posting fantasies about it. Just another day.”
He said Fagan “freaked out and deleted his tweet about my execution,” he continued, “Unfortunately for you, the internet doesn’t use pencils.”
In a Twitter thread today, he said: “This morning’s news reports that the SNP member who posted that I was hanging from a lamppost has been suspended.”
‘Fountain. Now that they’ve set the precedent that talking about executing your opponents is wrong (a low bar, I know), let’s see if they really mean business.
He added to the Herald: “It’s not enough to reluctantly suspend a member and only do so if there is media interference.
“We need to see SNP politicians publicly denouncing their own members who dream of executing their opponents, branding them traitors, and filling their social media profiles with hatred.”
Shot
Over the weekend, Ian Blackford fired a warning shot at “keyboard warriors” as he demanded that those entering and leaving his party be thrown out.
Over the weekend, Ian Blackford fired a warning shot at “keyboard warriors” as he called for the eradication of those inside and outside his party.
He told the Sunday Times: “Almost every MP I know, from every party, has been subjected to violent threats or death threats, some on a regular basis.”
He added, “It has not been long since the tragic deaths of David Amess and Jo Cox, and not a day goes by without threats of violence against politicians and widespread intolerance of others in space politics.” You have to let people do their jobs.
