<p><br /> Labour election candidate, Stuart MacLennan, has been sacked following offensive comments that he posted on Twitter.<br /> </p><p><br /> The Scottish hopeful was standing in the Moray constituency, and had full support from Iain Gray, Labour's leader in Scotland, who praised MacLennan just an hour before he was sacked.<br /> </p><p><br /> His comments targeted voters, politicians and celebrities, and some of the posts branded House of Commons speaker John Bercow a "t**", Tory leader Mr Cameron a "t***" and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg "a b******".<br /> </p><p><br /> His Twitter page has now been closed following criticism from his political opponents who described the remarks "vile" and "disgraceful".<br /> </p><p><br /> Jamie Paterson, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Moray, said: "This is a huge error of judgment. I don't know how the Labour candidate expects to get elected using this sort of unparliamentary language."<br /> </p><p><br /> And a Scottish Labour spokesperson said: "Stuart is a young candidate and has been very foolish indeed. He now understands that this is quite unacceptable and will not be doing this kind of thing again."<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr MacLennan has said "I am very sorry. I have been stupid and rightly paid a high price."<br /> </p>
