To Scotland, where the beleaguered Nats have appointed their third chief executive in two years. Yet Carol Beattie wasn’t able to celebrate for long after some of her rather unsavoury social media interactions aimed at the royal family were dredged up by her opponents. The most egregious example came after the Princess of Wales was praised for making a public appearance during her battle with cancer. At the time, Beattie reposted a tweet that made an apparent reference to the, um, guillotine, reading: ‘F*** all the way off with your gold-plated serfdom! Time for the French solution to monarchy.’ Charming!
The party’s new permanent CEO has since deleted the posts and apologised for any offence caused by her rather unedifying social media use – which included another example in which Beattie herself wrote that ‘intelligent people don’t support the monarchy’ and that royalists ‘use them as symbols of their bigotry or xenophobic values’.
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