SNP MSP spotted campaigning for by-election candidate who called King 'inbred'

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An SNP MSP has been pictured campaigning for a Nats candidate who called the King "inbred" and "intellectually challenged".

Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley MSP Willie Coffey posed for a photo with Marie Robertson despite the Record revealing her comments last week.

Robertson, who is standing in the Kilmarnock West and Crosshouse ward of East Ayrshire Council, also called a Labour MP a "quisling" on her now deleted social media account.

She has acknowledged that her comments were "inappropriate" but has refused to apologise. The SNP has resisted calls to withdraw its backing for Robertson.

Robertson posted a photo of herself campaigning in Crosshouse alongside Coffey and several SNP councillors on her new X account.

She also posted another photo with former SNP MP for Kilmarnock and Loudon Alan Brown - who lost his seat to Labour in July - out campaigning with her.

On December 1, 2022, Robertson launched an attack on King Charles. She replied to an image of the monarch on X: "Arrogant, inbred, over-privileged, intellectually challenged excuse for a man."

In response to a post which said "Ulster is British" on March 17 this year, Robertson said: "Ulster is NOT British, just the six counties in the province of Ulster, for the moment, are colonised."

She replied to a post by SNP MP Pete Wishart at the Tartan Day Parade in New York on April 7: "The butcher's apron at the start of the parade, are you having a laugh?" Butcher's apron is a derogatory way of describing the Union Jack.

On July 13 - less than a fortnight after dozens of SNP MPs lost their seats at the general election - Robertson said Westminster was a "parliament of the coloniser".

She said: "Care to explain, what exactly have those who take their seats in parliament of the coloniser achieved?! Wish the SNP MPs would follow Sinn Fein's example."

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On September 23 this year, Robertson replied to a post by Chris Murray, Labour MP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh. She said "Just stop, ENOUGH, you self-satisfied quisling." A quisling is a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country.

The SNP has been approached for comment.

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