“Have to cancel again now”.
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However, a spokesman said: “It is no surprise that people are leaving the Labour Party and joining the SNP after the House of Commons voted for air strikes”.
After confirming he had left the Labour Party only months after rejoining, Collymore asked whether an Englishman could join the SNP before sharing his membership email on Twitter.
Minutes later, the 44-year-old tweeted a screenshot to show that he’d joined.
“You let working people down and have brought more heat, more pain, more radicalisation to our streets at a time when we desperately need to solve old problems in new ways rather than with aggression”.
After being bombarded with messages and insults, he fired back: “Troll me all you like. I was right then too”.
The ex-Liverpool star took to social media to tell his 749,000 followers Labour MPs who backed the expansion of military action against Islamic State made him “feel sick”.
Cabinet unanimously gave its formal approval to a motion which not only authorises air strikes in Syria, but also sets out plans to pursue a political solution to the Middle Eastern country’s four-year civil war, commits Britain to humanitarian support and assistance with post-conflict reconstruction and rules out the deployment of United Kingdom ground combat troops.
The SNP, who entirely opposed bombing Syria in last night’s vote, campaign for Scottish independence.
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He added: “I’ve marched, paid my subs money and voted every election for LP”.
