Recently, Scottish Labour has argued that the party with the most seats after the general election will get to form the next government.
FACT: The single biggest party gets to form the next government. #VoteSNPgetTories
It hopes the prospect of David Cameron remaining prime minister will stop Scottish Labour voters jumping ship to the SNP. However, we're not sure everyone's convinced.
@scottishlabour FACT: "Scottish" "Labour" can't stop lying.
Nevertheless, Blair McDougall – who works for Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy – was undeterred and started tweeting things like this on Thursday.
The people having taken part in a democratic ballot will expect the leading party to form a government #VoteSNPgetTories
He waited for pro-independence tweeters to start arguing against his statements – but then revealed he was actually quoting Alex Salmond and "forgot" to add quotation marks.
People will be pretty angry if a combination of other parties try to prevent the leading party from forming a government. #VoteSNPgetTories
.@blairmcdougall But in 2010 your boss said 2nd place Brown had "constitutional & moral right" to try to form a govt: http://t.co/0fiEdCipJ7
.@KevinJPringle sorry I forgot to put quotation marks around my tweet. Really embarrasing eh?
He seemed to enjoy himself.
And STILL the lie keeps coming. Astounding. http://t.co/T1Y0BkR7xE
.@WingsScotland Damn! I made same mistake with that tweet. #astounding
So much so that he did it three times.
Whoever becomes the largest party will be in pole position to form the government #VoteSNPgetTories
.sorry folks forgot to add quotation marks to that. Thanks for your comments though.