SNP by-election candidate called King Charles 'inbred' and 'intellectually challenged'
dailyrecord.co.ukAn SNP by-election candidate called King Charles "inbred" and "intellectually challenged".Marie 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.The candidate said Northern Ireland is currently "colonised" and referred to the British flag as "the butcher's apron".
Robertson also suggested SNP MPs had not "achieved" anything and the party should abstain from the "parliament of the coloniser".Labour branded Robertson's language as "hate speech", while the Lib Dems said the SNP should "withdraw support" for the candidate.
When approached by the Record, Robertson said her tweets had been removed because they were "inappropriate".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?!
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