Mark Meechan was fined £800 for recording his pug Buddha raising its paw in response to statements such as “gas the Jews” and “sieg heil”.
He was found guilty in 2018 of posting materia l that was “grossly offensive” and “anti-Semitic and racist in nature” in an offence aggravated by religious prejudice.
Meechan will contest the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency which is currently held by Claire Adamson of the SNP with a majority of 6,000.The video blogger - who posts under the name Count Dankula to his hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube - is standing for the little-known Scottish Libertarian Party.The Scottish Libertarian website claims: "We all know that government is a cancer."But it will not go away by simply ignoring it.
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