Yes Scotland has ordered the discontinuation of a leaflet recommending voters seek out information from a website that branded an MSP “fat, troughing scum”.
Pro-Yes blog Wings Over Scotland made the online post about Conservative North East Scotland representative Alex Johnstone on Tuesday night.
Yes Edinburgh North and Leith published a flyer directing people to a number of pro-independence websites including Wings Over Scotland.
The group said the pamphlet was “c/o Yes Scotland”.
In a letter to Yes chief executive Blair Jenkins, Mr Johnstone said: “While I don’t take great delight in reading a tweet from Wings over Scotland describing me as a ‘fat, troughing scum’, it’s not something that bothers me unduly.
“What does concern me, however, is when idiots like this are given legitimacy by organisations like yours which are supposed to rise above personal abuse.”
A spokesman for Yes Scotland said: “Mr Johnstone is wrong to say this leaflet was issued from the office of Yes Scotland.
“It was a local leaflet produced by a local group in Edinburgh, which provided links to 20 websites for information, and its distribution has now been discontinued.
“Yes Scotland has taken immediate action on this complaint which is rather more than has been done by the leader of the No campaign, Alistair Darling, who has still not apologised for his intemperate attack comparing Scotland’s First Minister to a North Korean dictator.”