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Earlier this week, Galloway announced a sensational bid to return to Parliament, overthrowing former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier, who made headlines when she broke coronavirus rules last month. On October 1, the MP from Rutherglen and Hamilton West was suspended from the SNP for violating coronavirus lockdown rules, and she was asked by Scotland’s Prime Minister, Ms Sturgeon, to resign her parliamentary seat. Just under a week later, Ms. Ferrier’s electoral association said she had been asked to resign from her post because of the scandal, but four days later, the SNP deputy indicated that he would not resign due to the incident.
Now Alliance 4 Unity, the campaign group launched by Galloway with the intention of ousting the SNP from the Scottish government and ending the ‘neverendum’ debate, said that Ms Ferrier’s refusal to resign means that the Parliamentary Committee is likely Standards and Privileges now have to suspend it for 10 business days.
The move would trigger a petition for impeachment and could subsequently lead to a by-election.
Galloway has launched what he described as the “largest crowdfunder in by-election history”, aiming to raise £ 100,000 to perform at Rutherglen and Hamilton West and “bring the fight to the SNP.”
He has not been an MP since 2015, after taking seats in Bradford West; Bethnal Green and Bow; and Glasgow Kelvin over the course of 28 years since 1987.
A defiant Mr Galloway lashed out at the “pro-Britain” parties for failing to respond to his call to join forces to overthrow the SNP in preparation for the Scottish elections in May 2021.
He told Express.co.uk: “Someone has to overthrow the SNP. The best way to do this is an electoral agreement between all political parties, where the best placed candidate will fight the SNP in every election, but especially in Holyrood. In May.
“We have spent the last six months pressing this case and none of the pro-Great Britain parties have taken it up.
“They continue to cut the throats of others, as shown in several recent by-elections in Scotland.
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The former MP said: I am in the best position to beat the SNP. “I previously worked at Hamilton and I also know Rutherglen very well.
“I’m already up and running with a great campaign team gathering, a designated election agent, the premises under negotiation and we can’t wait to get started.
“All we need now is for the Standards and Privileges Committee to conclude, as the SNP has already done so, that Margaret Ferrier knowingly carried out a horrible act of propagation with a positive Covid test in her pocket.
“If that doesn’t justify a 10-day suspension, I don’t know what does.
Galloway added: “I was a Scottish Labor MP for almost 20 years.
“I am one of the best known names in Scottish politics in recent decades.
“Alliance 4 Unity has 18,000 Twitter followers, and we have raised thousands of pounds in just a few hours on our Crowdfunding page.
“I am very confident that we are the best people to defeat the SNP.”
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