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A Tory council candidate has been suspended over an online rant against Muslims.

George McIntyre is due to stand for the Conservatives for Midlothian Council in May’s local authority elections.

But Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson was forced to suspend him from the party yesterday after the Record flagged up his vile social media comments.

McIntyre – a former warrant officer in the Royal Scots – said he was “sick to the back teeth” of “whinging” Muslims and suggested they should leave the country.

He was responding to news a programme to vaccinate Glasgow schoolchildren against flu had been delayed amid concerns it contained pork products.

The Fluenz vaccine was being given as a nasal spray that contained gelatine. It was put back for a number of weeks in October 2013 so Muslims could be offered a traditional jab instead.

But the episode enraged McIntyre, who took to Facebook to vent his anger in a diatribe littered with spelling mistakes.

He wrote: “Sickened to the core! The entire City of Glasgow childrens flu innoculations were halted because a handful of Muslims are whinging about the fact there was geletine in the mix and they can’t take it!!!

“Well don’t frigging take it then and shut your whinging mouths, no wonder people get sick to the back teeth of you! If you are that way minded go and live in a Muslim country where you do not get any free preventive medication.

“Oh but you won’t do that will you.... ungrateful baskets I’m sick to the back teeth of them. Its

for our councillors to man up and tell them to sod off. Whinge over.”

The rant has been online for three-and-a-half years but McIntyre – who is due to stand for the Bonyrigg and Lasswade ward on the council – still passed the Tories’ vetting procedures.

After the Record highlighted the post to party bosses yesterday, a spokesman said: “These comments are clearly unacceptable, and we have suspended George McIntyre with immediate effect.”

The SNP questioned why McIntyre had been approved as a council candidate in the first place.

A spokesman said: “The comments are absolutely appalling, and it’s particularly worrying that he was selected as a council candidate after demanding racist action from councillors themselves.

“Voters in Midlothian will be wondering why on earth the Tories considered him a suitable

candidate.”

The SNP have been criticised for failing to discipline one of their councillors after he refused to apologise for inflammatory remarks made about English influence on Scotland.

The comments by Dave Doogan, deputy leader of SNP-run Perth and Kinross Council, forced Nicola Sturgeon to insist that her party are not anti-English.

Doogan claimed Scotland had been “under the heel of foreign influence for 300 years” and referred to “quislings”.