I AM sure I am not the only one who thinks of poor Margaret Ferrier and how harshly she was treated when we hear all the disgraceful behaviour being revealed at the Covid inquiry.

She was just a poor lady on her own, having represented her constituents in parliament in London, feeling unwell with Covid and just desperate to get home. Look at how she was punished – court case, community service, suspended from the party, recall petition vote at Westminster (what a farce, with all the parties taking the opportunity to hit a Scottish independence supporter).

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Now look at all these revelations! I am a SNP member and have always felt we should have shown her some compassion, but definitely no compassion for those pathetic members of the UK Government who have behaved so disgracefully with no excuse. We were lucky in Scotland to have had Nicola Sturgeon and Jason Leitch.  I only hope that the public at large will be disgusted at the utterances coming from Douglas Ross and Jackie Baillie.

I also wonder how happy the constituents of Rutherglen and Hamilton are now with their new MP! Time will tell.

Peter D Cheyne
Barbaraville