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NICOLA Sturgeon was facing mounting pressure last night to sack firebrand student Mhairi Black as an SNP election candidate - after a string of her foul-mouthed internet rants became public.

Politics student Mhairi Black - who will fight one of Scotland’s highest profile seats at the general election - used Twitter to boast of her boozy antics and to spout abuse about Celtic fans.

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The revelations come after the Record revealed yesterday how Black, 20, who is bidding to be Britain’s youngest MP, fantasised about “putting the nut” on Labour councillors.

Black - who polls say could unseat shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander as MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South - bragged on Twitter: “Smirnoff Ice is the drink of the gods - I cannae handle this c*** man.”

Partick Thistle fan Black also blasts Celtic fans during a match in October 2013 saying: “I’ve only just realised - I really f***** hate Celtic” and “Celtic, yer a joke!#scum".

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She also retweeted a comment saying “Ed Milliband is an unbearable ***.”

Another of her posts said: “Woke up beside half a can of Tennents and a full pizza and more money than I came out with. I call that a success!”

Scottish Labour’s Paisley South West councillor Jacqueline Henry said she was disgusted by the tweets. She said: “Comments like this from a person who seeks to represent the people of Paisley are unacceptable.

“As a woman and a mother, I think these comments are in the worst possible taste, and her remarks about Celtic fans raise the most serious questions about her suitability to hold public office.

“Nicola Sturgeon must deselect Mhairi Black. Anything short of that gives oxygen to intolerance and is an insult to the people of Paisley.”

But an SNP spokesman again defended Black.

He said: “Mhairi is a dedicated young woman who learned a great deal during the referendum, and wants to do her best for her community as its MP.”

Black’s inflammatory comments about headbutting councillors, made on video at a pro-independence rally in Glasgow, have caused embarrassment for Sturgeon, who pledged to heal the wounds caused by the bitter independence battle.

Glasgow University student Black, 20, rose to prominence last year as a vocal campaigner for a Yes vote in the referendum.

She made a series of controversial remarks at the Hope over Fear rally held in George Square in the aftermath of Scots backing the Union.

Footage of the October 12 event posted on the website YouTube reveals Black admitted she had wanted to headbutt Labour opponents when she learned the Yes side had lost.

To cheers and laughs from the audience she said: “I was actually at the count in Renfrewshire with my dad and as the vote was coming in, the way the hall was laid out we had to walk past all these fat cat Labour councillors goading us, clapping sarcastically, saying ‘better luck next time’ or ‘hard lines’.

“It took everything, every fibre in my being, not to put the nut in one of them.”

Black also criticised No voters as “selfish” – despite insisting she did not hold the referendum result “against” them.

“Yes, some were selfish and they will continue to be selfish. Yes, some were just plain gullible. But overall they were just as cheated as the rest of us.”

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