MP Jim Hood sparked fury after he insisted he would still vote NO even if Scotland would be better off economically under independence.
The Lanark and Hamilton East member made the controversial comments during a heated debate in the House of Commons on Scottish independence last Thursday.
Mr Hood said: “Even if the SNP was right and there was a grand, great thing at the end of the rainbow for the SNP and its debate for independence, I would still be against it.
“If the Scottish people are going to be better off economically and so on, I would still be against breaking away from the Union.”
But his comments were blasted by his opponents.
SNP member Robbie Castle, a third-year Scottish Literature student at Glasgow University, condemned Mr Hoods comments on social media site, twitter.
Robbie said: “So, my local MP Jim Hood said today 'I don’t care if Scotland could be better off. I’d still vote no.'
“A disgraceful performance from my local MP.”
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Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse MSP Christina McKelvie retweeted Robbie’s comments and this week welcomed them as a “revelation.”
“There we have it, straight from the horse’s mouth– Jimmy Hood has finally said what we have already known for a while,” she said. “That the No campaign doesn’t care what is in the best interests of Scotland.
“That no matter how compelling the economic and social case is for Independence, they would still be in favour of decisions being made about Scotland being made in London.
“It does, however, beggar belief that he has openly admitted that he is campaigning to preserve the Union simply for the Union’s sake.
“But in his bizarre intervention, he does raise a serious point, and it is worth noting that he has completely undermined Better Together’s ‘positive’ case for the Union.
“He has now openly admitted although the No camp know in private that Scotland will be better off being governed by the people that live and work here, that they will continue to scaremonger and rubbish valid arguments publicly in their attempts to pull the wool over the Scottish people’s eyes.”
However Mr Hood hit back this week at the “cyber nats” selective editing of his speech and said it was not surprising they have sought to quote him out of context.
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He added: “Few who know me including the SNP MPs attending the debate would have been surprised when I reminded the House of Commons that my family history and background would never allow me to be seduced by the mendacious propaganda of nationalism.
“Politics for me is about the values of sharing and empathising with your fellow men and women, regardless of the side of the road or border they were born on.
“I was born into a proud working class family in the Lanarkshire mining village of Lesmahagow where you strived alongside your neighbour to achieve the collective betterment of each other’s life chances.”