Disgraced Ex-SNP Margaret Ferrier has lost the appeal against her 30-day Commons Suspension. In a report today, published by Parliament’s Independent Expert Panel, Ferrier’s sanction was upheld, and her appeal dismissed “at the first stage”. The Panel’s Chair, Sir Stephen Irwin, also criticised the MP for failing to provide a timeline of events to both the Standards Commissioner and the Panel on appeal. Stephen Irwin wrote:
“The sub-panel dismissed Ms Ferrier’s appeal at the first stage of appeal… none of the grounds had substance and the sanction imposed was neither unreasonable nor disproportionate… The Committee’s recommended sanction is upheld.”
If the Commons approves the sanction, Ferrier will face a recall petition which, if successful, would result in a by-election. Yet another headache for the SNP…
Co-conspirators can read the Independent Expert Panel’s report in full below:
Disgraced Ex-SNP MP Margaret Ferrier will appeal against her 30-day Commons suspension. Ferrier’s suspension was a result of breaching Covid rules, and the appeal means a delay to the potential by-election in her Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. With the SNP’s recent collapse, it’s no wonder she wants to stall a potential contest with Labour…
The Commons Standards Committee has recommended that disgraced Ex- SNP MP Margaret Ferrier should face a 30 day Commons suspension for Covid rule breaches. This paves the way for a by-election in her Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency. The seat is a Labour target, currently forecast to change hands.
Guido notes the Tories on the Committee, some of whom also sit on Boris’s Kangaroo Court, voted against the sanction. They instead opted for a 9 day suspension. Just short of the threshold for an automatic by-election…
Co-conspirators can read the full report below
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…
