FAR-RIGHT figure Tommy Robinson has attempted to confront an SNP MP in Glasgow.
Robinson broadcast on Facebook his attempts to "ask a question" of SNP MP Stewart McDonald for almost an hour.
The MP was holding a surgery at Pollokshaws Library, which was put into lockdown, with police guarding the building and preventing Robinson from entering.
Sources at the library have claimed that supporters of the English Defence League founder, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, were bombarding them with phone calls.
Police eventually escorted McDonald out of the building.
Afterwards, he tweeted: "Thanks to those who have got in touch with kind messages - my staff and I are fine. Thanks must go to @policescotland officers for their professionalism and also @glasgowlife staff at Pollokshaws Library. I’ll keep doing my job on behalf of Southsiders."
Thanks to those who have got in touch with kind messages - my staff and I are fine. Thanks must go to @policescotland officers for their professionalism and also @glasgowlife staff at Pollokshaws Library. I’ll keep doing my job on behalf of Southsiders.
— Stewart McDonald MP (@StewartMcDonald) 18 January 2019
The Glasgow South MP has previously used a point of order in the House of Commons to describe Robinson as a "violent, racist thug and fraudster", in a row after he was pictured having lunch in the House of Lords.
McDonald said in Westminster: "It's entirely correct that members of both Houses engage in robust, political debate around the parliamentary estate.
"But today we have learned that yesterday the violent, racist thug and fraudster known as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, or Tommy Robinson, was invited on to the estate and wined and dined in the House of Lords yesterday.
"I understand that sometimes we have to engage in views that one might not agree with, but surely, surely the fact that a man who is as guilty as he is - on stirring up racial hatred, organising violent, thuggish crimes around the country, setting up the EDL and everything that comes with it - crosses a line.
"And such a person shouldn't be invited to walk amongst us on the parliamentary estate."
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