Labour sack candidate caught up in Twitter scandal

So much for Jim Murphy’s words of support two hours ago, the Labour candidate for Moray Stuart MacLennan has now been sacked. As soon as one saw what MacLennan had tweeted–the desire for a ‘slave-grown’ banana, the remarks about pensioners and the like–it was clear that MacLennan was going to have to go if this was not to become a major embarrassment for Labour.