Irvine Welsh blasts Scots Tories over 'Trainspotting' election poster

‘Get f***ed’: Author Irvine Welsh launches typically blunt foul-mouthed attack on the Scottish Conservatives after they rip off his Trainspotting cult ‘Choose life’ slogan in local election campaign

  • Party unveiled an attack on the SNP based on book’s ‘choose life’ monologue
  • Tore into Nicola Sturgeon’s party, attacking its record and perceived hypocrisy
  • Edinburgh-born Welsh lives in the US and backs Scots independence

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has made a characteristically blunt attack on the Scottish Tories after they channelled his cult novel in a new local election poster.

The foul-mouthed Scot, 63, invited the party to  ‘get f***ed’ after it unveiled an attack on the SNP government based on the famous ‘choose life’ monologue that also featured in the 1995 film. 

In the post last night the Scottish Tories tore into Nicola Sturgeon’s party, attacking its record and perceived hypocrisy in office, including ‘decriminalising heroin’ – the drug whose use is a running theme through Trainspotting.

Last September Scotland effectively decriminalised drugs in a major shake-up of policing that sees officers advised to issue only a ‘recorded police warning’ to anyone they catch in possession of Class As. 

It is not the first time Welsh, who was born in Edinburgh but lives in the United States, has attacked the Tories.

Last year the Scottish independence supporter branded Boris Johnson a ‘gormless toff’. 

The foul-mouthed Scot, 63, invited the party to ‘get f*cked’ after it unveiled an attack on the SNP government based on the famous ‘choose life’ monologue that also featured in the 1995 film.

Last year the Scottish independence supporter branded Boris Johnson a ‘gormless toff’.

In the post last night the Scottish Tories tore into Nicola Sturgeon’s party, attacking its record and perceived hypocrisy in office, including ‘decriminalising heroin’ – the drug whose use is a running theme through Trainspotting.

 Fans were quick to edit the Scottish Tory poster into one attacking the party. But not all readers agreed with his anger.

One, Catherine Moorehead, said: ‘Life without the SNP would make Scotland an immensely better place.’

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross today urged voters to back his party in next month’s council elections to cast their verdict on the SNP and ‘knock the Nats down to size’.

The Conservative insisted that Ms Sturgeon’s SNP are ‘beatable’ in the May’s local government elections.

With a month to go to polling day, he made a plea to voters to use the ballot to ‘get rid of SNP councillors who don’t deliver local action because they’re fixated on their nationalist obsession’.

Stressing the importance of council elections, Mr Ross told people: ‘The election on May 5 will decide so much of what happens in your community. The future of your streets and your schools is at stake.

‘When you’ve been frustrated by overflowing bins and potholes deep enough to stand in – this is your chance to change that.’

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross today urged voters to back his party in next month’s council elections to cast their verdict on the SNP and ‘knock the Nats down to size’

Writing in the Scottish Daily Mail, the Tory leader continued: ‘One month from today, across Scotland, you will have the opportunity to remove the SNP from power.

‘The prize is there for the taking. The SNP is beatable.’

He added that, in the council by-elections that have taken place since last May’s Holyrood vote, the Tories had been ‘only a few hundred votes behind’ the SNP in seats across Scotland.

Mr Ross told voters: ‘In councils across the country, this election is a two-horse race.

‘We’ve got one month to beat the SNP so we can get all of the focus onto your local priorities. Help us knock the Nats down to size. On May 5, the power is in your hands.’

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