Gray bemoans the ‘vile cybernats’

SCOTTISH Labour leader Iain Gray has accused groups of SNP supporters posting messages on the internet of “sinister” attacks on his party.

Mr Gray made a strongly worded attack on what he calls “vile cybernats” during his final Scottish Labour conference speech. And today Mr Gray writes in The Scotsman that he has discovered “at least one post suggesting that a particular journalist should be shot”.

Mr Gray also accused the SNP leadership of a “tolerance of this culture” that saw Gail Lythgoe, who sits on the party’s national executive, claim that Labour MP Ian Davidson had a “history of bullying and intimidation”.

The Scottish Labour leader described the claims as “untrue and almost certainly defamatory”.

He also said that all voters “should be worried” by internet postings from some SNP supporters, who he says are “poisoning the vital debate we now face” on Scotland’s future.

There is also a claim from Mr Gray, who stands down as leader on 17 December, that the SNP internet posters are “undermining the decency of the country”.