SNP deletes TikTok campaign video with sexually explicit song | Scottish National Party (SNP)

The Scottish National Party has deleted a campaign video on TikTok after it included a sexually explicit song by US rapper Big Boss Vette.

The track “Pretty Girls Walk” is marked with a warning about explicit lyrics on streaming platforms and begins with a first verse full of swear words.

The SNP video featured party leader John Swinney promoting policies such as calling for a complete ceasefire in Gaza, free baby kits for new parents and free bus travel for young people.

The SNP has dominated Scottish politics for more than 15 years and is now struggling to raise money after a series of reputation-damaging crises, including the police investigation into party funding, bitter rows over party policy and Humza Yousaf’s disastrous decision to abandon his party’s power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens.

Data on online campaign spending compiled by Who Targets Me suggests that the SNP has spent tiny amounts on campaign advertising over the past month to take on the Scottish Labour Party, which is currently leading in the polls.

The figures show that in the four weeks to Sunday 26 May, the SNP spent £811, or 2.6 per cent of its £31,000 total, on online advertising. This compares with Scottish Labour spending £20,000, or 64.5 per cent of the total, and the Scottish Conservatives spending £8,950 (28.9 per cent).

According to the Daily Mail, SNP MPs have been asked to offer free beds to party staff travelling from Westminster to work on the election as the party cannot afford hotel beds.

The breakaway nationalist Alba Party, founded by former SNP leader and former First Minister Alex Salmond, complained that the song in the deleted video also included the N-word.

Tony Osy, Alba’s candidate in south-west Glasgow and a member of the African Scots for Alba group, said: “The stigma of this word embodies and evokes painful memories and inhuman resentment.”

“We must not tolerate, reward, or participate in political messages that use the N-word in any form, including artistic endeavors that do not allude to the historical context of the word or highlight the biased nature of the word.

“Political parties that do not understand the deeply hurtful and dehumanizing use of this racist word should not use it in clickbait political ads.”