Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King jr and Mahatma Ghandi. He wrote: "People who did not ask for a referendum from their oppressors before they demanded freedom." His comment was taken by SNP figures as a clear link to the UK Government’s repeated refusal to allow a second referendum on Scottish independence.
One of his former MP colleagues, Pete Wishart, hit back: “It is simply incomprehensible. The Scottish people will look at their own experience and compare that with these pictures and think we're just mad.
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