Margaret Ferrier has the biggest brass neck in the whole of Scotland.

[KnittingNeedles]

Woman is utterly SHAMELESS.

Criminal prosecution, has the SNP whip removed, refuses to stand down. What an embarrassment.

All aboard the SNP gravy bus - not a single one of them deserving of their salaries. None of these twats would survive in a proper job and certainly not earn what they are getting.

To be fair the SNP have done what they can - they have chucked her out of their party. But if she doesn't want to stand down, she can't be forced to. Earning £84k a year, can't be forced to stand aside by her constituents. Just awful.

To be fair to her as she is my MP I follow how she votes and what questions she asks and she seems to be doing exactly what I want my MP to do.

And you are happy with her blatantly breaking the law and spreading her Covid around the place, while her own party kept most of Greater Glasgow locked down for months?

@NotTooOldPaul does that include being found to have broken Covid rules?

not an SNP supporter but if I can understand her wanting to be at home, with family, even if its not what the law allowed.

no it doesn't but that was a couple of years ago now. Other people also broke the rules and were not prosecuted.

I was thinking of what she says in parliament and how she votes now.

But that applied to millions of people in the UK. She is an MP. In an ideal world* I would like MPs to be good role models for the rest of us, not shamelessly living by 'Do what I say, not what I do'.

*Yes, I know. Living in a dream world.

Yet I bet you'd be up in arms if it was someone who you didn't agree with right?

were there any other elected officials who got on public transport knowing they had Covid? She’s shameless - whilst I can understand her wanting to go home, getting in a closed train carriage knowing you’ve got Covid is really low.

You could almost forgive the taking the test then travelling to London pending a result. Almost.

But then testing positive, knowing the rules, and getting back on a train? There is just no excuse for that at all. SNP leadership agree, and chuck her out.

Yet the bold Margaret ploughs on, doing her own thing, raking in her salary. For three years. She has not one scrap of decency and should have resigned immediately.

Agree @KnittingNeedles Getting on the Glasgow to London train knowing she was positive, unbelievable. Even hiring a car would have been better but maybe she couldn't claim that back on her expenses. 🙄

For me, it's the repeated poor decisions she took and yes, not setting the correct example.

No-one who makes such poor decisions, and it wasn't just one, deserves to be representing the public and raking in that salary.

And yes, to be fair the SNP did withdraw the whip etc but given that others (whose faces fit better?) have been in similar dodgy circumstances and been supported (Patrick Grady for example) it does make me wonder why? Sturgeon herself broke the rules on more than one occasion though not to such a serious extent and at a different stage of the rules.

The problem Sturgeon had was that she was SO vocal and SO critical of Dominic Cummings and what he did that she had no choice when it came to Ferrier. Even though what Dominic Cummings did was less bad - I don't think he ever had a positive test as testing wasn't a thing so early on, drove his own car, stayed with family. Not boarding a train full of strangers.

Agree also that the situation with Patrick whatsit was exactly the same as the situation with Chris Pincher - both MPs, both accused of sexual assault against much younger victims. SNP called for Pincher to be hung, drawn and quartered, but held a meeting to decide how best to protect Patrick Grady.

Ferrier is a MP because she is a member of the SNP and represented them in the election. You are kidding yourself if you truly believe she is an altruistic person who truly wants to serve the people of Rutherglen and was elected on her track record, personality and ability. She was elected because of what she represented and now that has been removed she needs to stand down.

Travel up and down the country whilst knowingly having covid and flouting laws in place to protect the public? You have exceedingly low expectations of an MP even given the current general opinion of MPs. I presume you have no problem with Boris’s parties either or are you a hypocrite?

It seems likely that there will be a by election soon. I welcome that.

I think we need a change in the rules so if an MP is thrown out of the party she or he represented when elected there should be a by election as soon as possible. Most people do not vote for an individual but for the party that individual is standing for.

She also attended both the Scottish Parliament and the Westminster Parliament, I believe? While having Covid symptoms and waiting for the result of a test. So she deliberately put the government of Scotland and of the UK at risk. I honestly think you'd be hard pushed to think of a way to break Covid rules that was more serious than what she did. It's almost as if she'd entered a competition for the worst breach of the rules.

It wasn’t just the train travel if I remember correctly? Think she also got a taxi and popped into a few other places whilst symptomatic/positive? At the time rules in Glasgow were super strict and she just carried on as she wanted. The panel that heard her case contained an SNP member who voted for her ban to be minimal…. Can’t stand double standards! Cummings and co behaved appallingly badly but not all Scottish politicians were brilliant ambassadors either…

What she did was way way worse than what Cummings did (and I despise the man). Thinking about it, could she have been in the pay of the Russians? Only half joking!!