Cowards and Bullies
As regular readers know, I don't carry a torch for any political party these days and I have friends and acquaintances on both sides of the Scottish independence debate with whom I can have an intelligent, non-acrimonious discussion.
But that is not universally true, no more so than on social media where lots of angry people await with their accusations of treachery and worse, as in the case of the former Labour MP, Anne Begg, reported here via this link to The Herald.
The people concerned are small-minded bullies, of course, who wouldn't say 'Boo' to your face, but what I don't get is how they think that this kind of cowardly behaviour furthers their own cause.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14176842.Ex_MP_Anne_Begg__horrible_accusation_that_I_backed_Nazis_will_not_go_away/
Called Nazi after Wings over Scotland suggested she campaigned with National Front: Anne Begg MP on social media bullying
Called a Nazi on Twitter: ex-MP Anne Begg on social media bullying
David Leask, Chief Reporter - The Herald
Anne Begg is Nazi scum. But only on Twitter.
In real life the 60-year-old is a veteran disability campaigner. For 18 years until May, Dame Anne served as a Labour MP.
But her defeat wasn't the worst thing to happen to her in career: she laughs that off.
No, her political low was a social media and blogging campaign sparked by a picture of her with a member of the far-right group, the National Front.
The unsubstantiated suggestion on Twitter and Facebook: that she had campaigned with "Nazis" against Scottish independence.
