Uh oh. Following a rowdy bust up with the SNP’s chief whip Brendan O’Hara, the party establishment has now chosen to expel Angus MacNeil MP. MacNeil, a close ally of former first minister Alex Salmond, was initially suspended after news of the fight broke, which saw him reportedly seethe ‘you’re a small wee man!’ at O’Hara several times before flinging an entire stack of papers at him. He has been sitting as an independent MP ever since.
In a scathing Twitter post, MacNeil announced that ‘the summer of member expulsion’ has ‘come to pass.’ The decision to expel him from the party was made by a ‘member conduct committee’, the MP tweeted, alongside a kangaroo emoji… Now, whatever could he be trying to suggest?
This isn’t the first time MacNeil has hit out at his now former SNP colleagues over their independence strategy. He released a fiery statement in July that berated the party for its ‘utterly clueless’ approach to independence, raging that ‘the tricks of the last six years of kicking the can down the road have not served Scotland well’. Mr S would go further and say that the last 16 years of the SNP in government haven’t served Scotland particularly well…
MacNeil had stated that he would sit as an independent MP until October at the earliest, at which point he would only rejoin the party if it provided ‘clarity on independence’. Signing off, MacNeil served his party leaders with an ultimatum: ‘I will only seek the SNP whip again if it is clear that the SNP are pursuing independence.’ They’ve made that decision easier for him, at least…
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