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SNP MSP James Dornan branded 'shameful' after he accuses BBC journalist of 'imaginary woes'
17.02.2022 - 16:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An SNP MSP has been slammed after he accused a prominent BBC journalist of "imaginary woes" after she spoke out about the abuse she suffered while doing her job.
Sarah Smith, who stepped down as editor of BBC Scotland last year, revealed in an interview she was "relieved" to have taken a new job in the US after receiving years of "bile, hatred and misogyny".
The well-respected broadcaster spoke about how she was shouted at in the street and called "a *****g lying bitch" in addition to regularly receiving hateful messages on social media.
Smith said she was "demonised quite heavily... amongst certain parts of the population", who claimed they did not watch the BBC or pay their licence fee "but seem to know an enormous amount about what I say and do on television and on the radio nonetheless".
However, her remarks were downplayed by James Dornan, MSP for Glasgow Cathcart.
Responding to a journalist sharing the story on Twitter, Dornan hit back: "America would be the go to place to escape all her imaginary woes then."
After his remarks were challenged, he later backtracked: "Imaginary was the wrong word to use, should have been ‘exaggerated’.
"Any abuse she suffered is too much but if Sarah Smith is saying that politics over here is more vicious than in the US she hasn’t been paying enough attention to what has been going on over there, nor rest of UK."
Tory MSP Jamie Halcro-Johnson said: "What a shameful response to a woman’s personal experiences of misogyny. I hope other SNP MSPs/MPs will condemn."
Annie Wells, a Tory MSP for Glasgow, said: "This is the sort of crass and hugely insulting comment we’ve come to expect from James Dornan.
"It is appalling that he should have reacted in such a dismissive way to the abuse Sarah Smith
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