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[Emrys]

6. Hmm, it's not been an auspicious couple of days for the Alba Party

Yesterday, the Alba faction were excited about a much-trailed "big hitter" who was going to be announced as a candidate. It ended up being featherweight champion boxer Alex Arthur (no, I'd never heard of him either).

It wasn't long before people took a look at his Twitter account ...

Alba Party's Alex Arthur apologises for grossly offensive tweets
THE Alba Party’s new “big hitter” has been forced to apologise after making a series of highly offensive comments on social media.

They included disparaging remarks about “beggars”, Gypsies and AIDS patients, as well as posts claiming he doesn’t need to get a coronavirus vaccine.

In January last year, he posted: “Them Romanian beggars in Edinburgh ain’t hungry!! Just drove past them all ready to switch up begging posts and ALL em fat as big juicy over fed pigs!”

After the tweets came to light, the former boxer doubled down. He posted last night: “I actually have Romanian friends, some here some in Romania. And they have warned me about certain beggars in certain areas and how they rotate.”

Arthur also raised doubts about the Covid-19 vaccination in response to reports that over-40s are to be prioritised in the next phase of the rollout. “Yes! I’m going to be ok,” he tweeted in February. “Oh wait I’m not fat or unhealthy with no underlying issues. Keep yer jab!”

In another tweet from that month he again raised doubts about the vaccine, claiming: "I just don't believe I need it."

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19196646.alba-partys-alex-arthur-apologises-grossly-offensive-tweets/

After initially doubling down on his comments about "Romanians", Arthur tweeted this:



That's all very well, but among his "Likes", someone found ...



As well as the dodgy tweets mentioned in the article above, Arthur reacted with threats of violence to some tweeters, in posts that reeked of homophobia.

Others have pointed out the irony of someone standing for a pro-independence party whose Twitter account proudly bills him as "Alex Arthur MBE": https://twitter.com/AlexArthur1

Economist Jim Walker was one of today's prize catches for Salmond, but unfortunately he's an advocate for involving Bitcoin in a new Scottish national currency, and ...

Alba Party candidate apologises after calling Nicola Sturgeon 'a cow'
Dr Jim Walker was forced to make an apology just hours after he was revealed as a candidate for Alex Salmond's new party.

A new Alba Party candidate has been forced to apologise after calling Nicola Sturgeon "a cow" just days before it was announced he would stand for Alex Salmond's breakaway independence movement.

Economist Dr Jim Walker was unveiled as the party's latest recruit earlier today to contest the Central Scotland list.

Dr Walker, who is a chief economist at Aletheia Capital in Hong Kong, will travel back to his place of birth to stand for election to the Scottish Parliament.

But on Sunday, March 28 he took to Twitter to call the First Minister "a cow" in response to a video where Sturgeon described Salmond as a "gambler".

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alba-party-candidate-apologises-after-23821592

This is cringeworthy. It's not my party, but I look forward to the candidate registration deadline when this stream of crap will fizzle out, as it's just embarrassing and depressing.

There have been rumours about the possible defection of one or two more SNP MPs, but time is quickly running out.