THREAD: I know Margaret Ferrier. I put in some incredibly hard graft to help get her elected. I worked as her senior parliamentary aide for 2 years.

I've been waiting for her to do the right thing, but today it has become abundantly clear that she has no intention of doing so.

Over the past week & a bit, I've reached out to offer Margaret support and advice, as have many others. She's ignored us all.

Instead, Margaret seems to be hell bent on doing the wrong thing. I can draw only one conclusion: that she is thinking of nobody but herself right now.

Being an MP is a privilege and carries an enormous amount of trust with it. Margaret has broken that trust irreparably.

With so many of her constituents having lost their jobs through no fault of their own recently, it is obscene for Margaret to cling on to hers.

Margaret has tried to paint herself as a victim in all of this. She's not a victim, she's a failure. By hanging on to her highly-paid position, Margaret continues to fail her constituents, her staff, her colleagues, and all the activists who worked tirelessly to get her elected.

Margaret's intention to remain in office benefits nobody, least of all herself. Her failure is now a quagmire that she's refused help to escape. Every day that passes, every action she takes, every word she speaks, she gets swallowed up even more in it.

There is no joy in watching someone destroy their own happiness in this way. I've found the last week and a bit to be deeply unpleasant and uncomfortable. I wish she had listened to reason. I wish she had just done the decent thing at the outset and resigned.