Former SNP MP Gets Community Service Order for Breaking Covid Rules - A Taste of Their Own Medicine.

Former SNP Member of Parliament Gets Community Pay-Back Order 

A Taste of Their Own Medicine

During the Covid/Lockdown crisis, the SNP and its MP's and MSP's were very keen to impose and enforce the draconian freedom restriction measures across Scotland. Remember?

Then in September 2020 there was the classic SNP elitist example of 'Rules for Thee but Not for Me!' when Margaret Ferrier, the SNP Member of Parliament for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, decided to break all her party's rules by travelling freely even though she had 'tested positive' for Covid-19. According to subsequent investigations the errant SNP politician had ignored all the rules she and her party were advocating; she visited several locations in her constituency, went to a beauty salon and various shops, travelled down to London by train, took her place in the House of Commons and made a speech, then having had her test results for Covid confirmed, she decided to catch a train back to Glasgow because she did not want to have to spend two weeks isolated in a London hotel. Once again 'Rules for Thee but Not for Me'.

Finally under a barrage of exposure in October 2020, Ferrier reported herself to the police and to the parliamentary commissioner for standards, and apologised for her conduct. 

Last month (August 2022) Margaret Ferrier stood before Glasgow Sheriff court and admitted that by her conduct she had, "exposed the public to the risk of infection, illness and death." No doubt some BM Scotland readers will consider that last part a bit over the top, but at least Margaret Ferrier MP  has been held to account under rules she helped to impose. She has been ordered by the court to undertake a 270 hour community pay-back order - that is a lot of litter picking and graffiti scrubbing.

Of course Margaret Ferrier is no longer representing the SNP and has been sitting as an Independent for months now. So permanently out of favour with the SNP leadership now that First Minister Sturgeon declared Ferrier's conduct as "dangerous and indefensible". And of course did not reflect the standards expected of an SNP politician. Margaret Ferrier has refused all calls to stand down as a Member of Parliament and stubbornly hangs on to her seat in the House of Commons, a clear case of 'Do as we say, not as we do'.