Labour has expelled one of its members for supporting the SNP in the general election earlier this month.
The letter, given to BuzzFeed News by Derek McLean, explains he will be expelled from Labour after the party was alerted to pro-SNP messages he has posted on social media. McLean will be removed from the membership system for at least five years, and will not be allowed to attend any Labour events.
The letter appears to have been sent from the UK Labour party rather than Scottish Labour, and incorrectly names the SNP as "the Scottish Nationalist party".
McLean is not an SNP member, but he is pro-independence and runs the Independence Live website which streams rallies and speeches. He joined Scottish Labour earlier this year and said he wanted to "get rid of all the rotten eggs from the inside" in a plot devised by pro-independence blog Wings Over Scotland.
McLean told BuzzFeed News he was "extremely disappointed" to be expelled from the party.
"Jim Murphy said he'd work with Yes voters and I saw that as a chance to start restoring the Labour party back to its socialist left wing roots," he said. "I am extremely disappointed to be thrown out, unless Labour actually do start listening, then the party is lost."
A Scottish Labour spokesperson said: "A member who supports a political organisation other than an official Labour Party group or unit is ineligible to remain a party member."