Glasgow Sheriff Court has whacked ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier with a 270-hour community payback order for boarding a long-distance train during the pandemic while knowing she had Covid. The MP pleaded guilty last month, having already lost the SNP whip and been sitting as an independent. Given she’s only been given community service, this doesn’t necessarily mean a by-election is on the cards after all...

Former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier has pled guilty to breaking Covid rules in 2020, after taking a train from London to Scotland despite showing Covid symptoms and being told to self-isolate. She’d already lost the whip and had been sitting as an independent. Another by-election on the cards…

Sturgeon’s mate and ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier now faces a new allegation she breached Covid laws after her grand super-spreading tour of the UK in 2020. To remind co-conspirators of Ferrier’s Covid exploits, the MP got Covid symptoms and took a test; that same day she visited a gym, beauty salon and a shop; while waiting for the test results she took the train from Scotland to London and spoke in parliament that evening; the same evening she got a positive test result back and returned to Scotland the next morning.

Ahead of her trial on August 15th – set this afternoon – a pre-trial hearing learned of another claimed rule breach: she failed to inform test & protect about her Commons attendance. The trial’s now set to last double the five days originally allocated…

Prosecutor Mark Allan told the hearing that he now wishes to amend the single charge, to insert “and did thereafter fail to disclose to representatives of Test and Protect national contact tracing centre NHS Scotland that you did attend Houses of Parliament, Westminster on September 28, 2020″ Ferrier continued to plead not guilty…

Independent MP – formally SNP – Margaret Ferrier will stand trial in August following her infamous Covid rule breach in 2020. Despite being told to self-isolate, she travelled from London to Scotland; as well as travelling around Glasgow and to London prior to her positive Covid diagnosis, despite Covid symptoms. She denies wilfully exposing people to the risk of illness and death. Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election anyone? 

Guido learns that a surprising name has joined the APPG for Cleaning and Hygiene. None other than Margaret Covid Ferrier. The news is causing virtual tea room tittering. One fellow MP tells Guido they wonder if Covid-ferrying Ferrier has a special interest in the cleanliness of trains?