ON a rough night for the SNP, some huge names no longer have seats at Westminster.
Joanna Cherry lost her seat in Edinburgh South West as she lost out to Labour’s Scott Arthur, while Alison Thewliss is another prominent SNP politician to be out of a job as Labour took a clean sweep of seats in Glasgow.
READ MORE: General Election: Which constituencies had the biggest shocks?
Here are all the SNP MPs who we will now not see at Westminster, the constituencies they represented, plus where they stood following boundary changes:
Tommy Sheppard – Edinburgh East
Joanna Cherry – Edinburgh South West
Alison Thewliss – Glasgow Central (stood in Glasgow North)
Gavin Newlands – Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Kirsten Oswald – East Renfrewshire
Ronnie Cowan – Inverclyde (stood in Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Anne McLaughlin – Glasgow North East
David Linden – Glasgow East
Anum Qaisar – Airdrie and Shotts
Allan Dorrans – Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Steven Bonnar – Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (stood in Coatbridge and Bellshill)
Stuart McDonald – Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Stewart McDonald – Glasgow South
Amy Callaghan – East Dunbartonshire (stood in Mid Dunbartonshire)
Deirdre Brock – Edinburgh North and Leith
Carol Monaghan – Glasgow North West (stood in Glasgow West)
Chris Stephens – Glasgow South West
Richard Thomson – Gordon (stood in Gordon and Buchan)
Owen Thompson – Midlothian
Alan Brown – Kilmarnock and Loudon
Martyn Day – Linlithgow and East Falkirk (stood in Bathgate and Linlithgow)
Hannah Bardell – Livingston
Marion Fellows – Motherwell and Wishaw (stood in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Patricia Gibson – North Ayrshire and Arran
Alyn Smith – Stirling (stood in Stirling and Strathallan)
John Nicolson – Ochil and South Perthshire (stood in Alloa and Grangemouth)
Martin Docherty-Hughes – West Dunbartonshire
Not really commented about on here as there doesn’t seem to be a member listed above but didn’t Paisley South (mhairi blacks constituency) lose.
Do you think she would have gone if she hadn’t quit.
And do you think she quit because she knew she was a gonner? Or was she just tired?
The comments on that article are unhinged.
To sum up – “why is everyone so stupid” but said with spit and vitriol.
At one point someone says that an IQ test should be required to vote. They say that if they had to have at least an IQ of 50 then half of the electorate wouldn’t meet the requirement. Which is just mind boggling as an understanding of what an IQ score is.
For me Sheppard, Thewliss and Nicolson will be missed. I quite liked Stewart McDonald though I know a lot didn’t like him.
Good riddance to Cherry, and the rest are all a bit meh.
Shame about Sheppard and Callaghan, both seemed fairly competent and popular.
Suppose the silver lining is with Cherry gone that hopefully means the SNP spends less time having to battle itself over the question of “do we need to be needlessly cruel to trans folk or can we just let them live”.
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ON a rough night for the SNP, some huge names no longer have seats at Westminster.
Joanna Cherry lost her seat in Edinburgh South West as she lost out to Labour’s Scott Arthur, while Alison Thewliss is another prominent SNP politician to be out of a job as Labour took a clean sweep of seats in Glasgow.
READ MORE: General Election: Which constituencies had the biggest shocks?
Here are all the SNP MPs who we will now not see at Westminster, the constituencies they represented, plus where they stood following boundary changes:
Tommy Sheppard – Edinburgh East
Joanna Cherry – Edinburgh South West
Alison Thewliss – Glasgow Central (stood in Glasgow North)
Gavin Newlands – Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Kirsten Oswald – East Renfrewshire
Ronnie Cowan – Inverclyde (stood in Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West)
Anne McLaughlin – Glasgow North East
David Linden – Glasgow East
Anum Qaisar – Airdrie and Shotts
Allan Dorrans – Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Steven Bonnar – Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (stood in Coatbridge and Bellshill)
Stuart McDonald – Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Stewart McDonald – Glasgow South
Amy Callaghan – East Dunbartonshire (stood in Mid Dunbartonshire)
Deirdre Brock – Edinburgh North and Leith
Carol Monaghan – Glasgow North West (stood in Glasgow West)
Chris Stephens – Glasgow South West
Richard Thomson – Gordon (stood in Gordon and Buchan)
Owen Thompson – Midlothian
Alan Brown – Kilmarnock and Loudon
Martyn Day – Linlithgow and East Falkirk (stood in Bathgate and Linlithgow)
Hannah Bardell – Livingston
Marion Fellows – Motherwell and Wishaw (stood in Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Patricia Gibson – North Ayrshire and Arran
Alyn Smith – Stirling (stood in Stirling and Strathallan)
John Nicolson – Ochil and South Perthshire (stood in Alloa and Grangemouth)
Martin Docherty-Hughes – West Dunbartonshire
Not really commented about on here as there doesn’t seem to be a member listed above but didn’t Paisley South (mhairi blacks constituency) lose.
Do you think she would have gone if she hadn’t quit.
And do you think she quit because she knew she was a gonner? Or was she just tired?
The comments on that article are unhinged.
To sum up – “why is everyone so stupid” but said with spit and vitriol.
At one point someone says that an IQ test should be required to vote. They say that if they had to have at least an IQ of 50 then half of the electorate wouldn’t meet the requirement. Which is just mind boggling as an understanding of what an IQ score is.
For me Sheppard, Thewliss and Nicolson will be missed. I quite liked Stewart McDonald though I know a lot didn’t like him.
Good riddance to Cherry, and the rest are all a bit meh.
Shame about Sheppard and Callaghan, both seemed fairly competent and popular.
Suppose the silver lining is with Cherry gone that hopefully means the SNP spends less time having to battle itself over the question of “do we need to be needlessly cruel to trans folk or can we just let them live”.
Does this mean SNP becomes a…
Fringe party?
/s, obv