Twitter abuse? Yes, says Labour!

A young and inexperienced Labour candidate has been sacked for posting such remarks as "coffin dodgers" and "being sober for the first time in 4 days" on his Twitter account. Not only has he been sacked but his opponents are coming out with pompously self-righteous comments and Jim Murphy describes the episode as if the candidate were a wife-beating monster. Maybe Frankie Howerd was right. "Twitter ye not!" - or at least very carefully during general elections.

My view is that the candidate Stuart MacLennan has been foolish and naive but no more than that. He's probably expressed opinions that most men of his age have done regardless of party allegiance. I think this says more about those commenting about him. Mr. MacLennan didn't curse or blaspheme as far as I know. Plenty of current MPs do both!

It would have been far better to leave Mr. MacLennan where he was as candidate for Moray. I'm sure the voters of this constituency are better placed to judge who they want as their representative than the paragons of virtue who are now "infecting" our political process. I do hope his replacement is not the school swat who has become leader's pet. We want fearless representatives not apparatchiks that act as if they are in toothpaste commercials.