On Tuesday, The National exposed North Lanarkshire Tory councillor Stephen Goldsack for his questionable comments and links to the BNP.
Unsurprisingly, it’s not the first time that a Scottish Tory has been engulfed in a such a row over the last few years.
1. Ken MacBrayne
Last year’s Scottish local elections was a challenging yet revealing time for Tory leader Ruth Davidson. At one point no fewer than seven of her party’s candidates found themselves in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Chief among those was Ken MacBrayne. Not content with suggesting someone kidnap Nicola Sturgeon, put a golf ball in her mouth and “stick a cattle prod up her nether region”, the Benbecula candidate’s Facebook page contained a series of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant entries, including a string of posts by extremists Britain First – one warning of a religious war in the UK and Europe.
2. Roxana Iancu
Another of the seven shamed candidates, Roxana Iancu, suggested that German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be hanged for her inclusive policies.
3. Ron McKail
Up in Aberdeenshire, Ron McKail was also putting his Facebook page to questionable use, posting content related to Britain First and the English Defence League.
4. George McIntyre
George McIntyre, another candidate in the 2017 local elections, launched an astonishing attack on Muslims concerned about gelatin in flu inoculations.
McIntyre told them to “shut your whinging [sic] mouths, no wonder people get sick to the back teeth of you! If you are that way minded go and live in a Muslim country where you do not get any free preventive medication".
5. Neill Graham
Paisley council candidate Neill Graham was carpeted after sharing a Facebook post by the “Proud to be a Protestant banter” group which showed a picture of the Parachute Regiment during Bloody Sunday, when soldiers shot 26 people, 13 fatally, on a civil rights march in Derry in 1972.
The 2010 Saville inquiry concluded the killings were both "unjustified" and "unjustifiable".
Graham’s post contained the phrase “How many likes for the Paras?”
He's also been forced to deny previously being a member of the BNP after after his contact details were found in a leaked database from the party.
Graham denied ever using the email neillrfc1690nosurrender@hotmail.co.uk.
6 & 7. Alastair Majury and Robert Davies
Within a month of the local elections, the Scottish Tories were hitting the headlines for bigoted views once again when Alastair Majury and Robert Davies were suspended from the party for comments made on social media.
Majury used the word “tarrier”, a highly derogatory word directed towards Catholics, before tweeting: “Why is the Catholic Church against birth control? Because they’ll run out of children to molest.”
He also boasted about his sizeable member on an data website for supposedly well endowed gentleman.
His partner in crime, Davies, elected to represent the Forth and Endrick ward, sent posts comparing people of colour to cannibals. One of several offensive tweets read: “In the interests of security keep your loin cloths with you at all times. Spears go in the overhead locker.”
The pair were suspended but then later readmitted on the basis they would undergo equality training.
Davies was asked to formally apologise for his actions at a full council, he failed to do so. He now sits as an independent.
8. Derek McCabe
You know you've messed up if you need to delete your entire Facebook account. That’s what Tory councillor Derek McCabe was forced to do after The National exposed that it was littered with his homemade "jokey" offensive memes.
In arguably the most offensive post, McCabe used an image of a noticeboard for a local Brownies group, on which somebody has posted Fair Trade pictures of black people.
“Little mildred was a right little joker,” was his caption.
9. Ian James
Strathtay councillor Ian James praised Enoch Powell during the Tory leadership contest in 2016 when he asked: “Where are the political characters like Churchill, Nye Bevan and Enoch Powell or Margaret Thatcher?”
Powell called for curbs on immigration and the repatriation of non-white immigrants in his infamous 1968 Rivers of Blood speech.
10. Todd Ferguson
The National revealed that, in a now deleted tweet, Todd Ferguson, a Tory candidate in Dalry and West Kilbride in North Ayrshire, seemed to suggest the views of his SNP rival were irrelevant as she comes from the Netherlands.
11. Colin McGavigan
Colin McGavigan – elected councillor in the Clydesdale South ward in South Lanarkshire – called carers, that group of people who do stressful jobs for low pay and long hours, "the great unwashed". Classy.
12. David Wilson
David Wilson asked gay councillors to out themselves while complaining about funding a local LGBT group.
13. Trevor Douglas
Not content with declaring his admiration for former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, Trevor Douglas once stated that "Serbia can go back to selling white kids to slave traders".
14. Alastair Redman
Alastair Redman is yet another Tory councillor who believes its a good idea to circulate posts by Britain First.
15. Douglas Ross
In between grumbles about his actual job getting in the way of his refereeing career and long before the Moray MP was taking a tumble at the Scottish Cup Final, Douglas Ross was quizzed about what would be his priority should he ever become Prime Minister. His response was that he would deploy "tougher enforcement against Gypsy Travellers".
After being accused of attacking a persecuted minority group, Ross responded: "The settled community continually complain that Gypsy Travellers receive preferential treatment, whether it is with regard to planning decisions or just the way they take over a piece of land or lay by and then often leave it in a significant mess which has to be cleaned up at a cost to the local tax payer."
It should come as no surprise that he was previously a Tory councillor.
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