Good luck to SNP MP Mhairi Black

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"She is a 20 year old! If there was ever a reason for an age bar on entering Parliament, she is it. She is a crass, heavy drinking, foul-mouthed teen. I teach teenagers and most of those I teach are worth a dozen of her. She will be tabloid fodder when she relaxes her guard and gets pissed on the Terrace on cheap booze."

^ This

It's a common figure of speech, not a threat!

You are aware she said she would "nut any no voters" she met after the indy ref. Great role model

BlueBrightFuture, every other party had candidates younger than Mhairi Black.

I also felt she was incredibly patronising to Douglas Alexander, telling him that he did a good job and should remain in politics.

The man has been in Parliament since she was 2.

I'm only a couple of years older than Ms Black and, as much as I can emphasise with families, the elderly etc who are struggling, I would not be arrogant enough to assume I know all the answers to help them.

Guess the SNP and their voters think it is a great idea.... Enough said really.

I think in many ways her age will be a disadvantage. The media pressure will be immense, and the oppositions will be lining up to glory in her first faux pas. To balance that, she's bright, she's spunky and she's committed to deliver for her constituents.

My view is that it's more of a disadvantage to be sheltered, private schooled, Oxbridge educated and out of touch with what is reality for the vast number of people who live in the UK. In Scotland, it was definitely a disadvantage to be seen as the complacent and entitled untouchable incumbent MP.

Our parliament was and is too full of millionaires, flipping houses, exploiting the expenses scheme, too adrift from every day life. The new politicians will be a fresh wind blowing through Westminster. I'm delighted Mhairi Black was elected and wish her all the best in her new job.

She is a 20 year old! If there was ever a reason for an age bar on entering Parliament, she is it. She is a crass, heavy drinking, foul-mouthed teen. I teach teenagers and most of those I teach are worth a dozen of her. She will be tabloid fodder when she relaxes her guard and gets pissed on the Terrace on cheap booze.

And, if you listen to her (and the rest of the SNP) they are so "on message" that they just repeat, and repeat and repeat the same hackneyed message. Even St Nicola only has two or three things to say, repeatedly. Not hard to learn a very few lines and keep saying them.

Im pleased my MP isn't a 20 year old student, i remember what 20 year old students are like and they are not ready for such an important position imo (gender and party completely irrelevant to this conclusion)

I could have just said that and saved myself some typing, Magenta

I think she hasn't got a chance in hell.

I wish her all the best.

It's going to be very difficult for her, I think. People will, at the moment, be rejoicing in the SNP's success but that will wane and there will be done difficult decisions and very hard work to come.

I think a serious lack of life experience and being the replacement for someone like Akexander (like him or loathe him) will be a real struggle.

When the proverbial hits the fan, I really think that youthfulness, which is currently a virtue for her, will come back to bite her on the arse.

I was put off by this tweet (during the election):

"Smirnoff Ice is the drink of the gods - I cannae handle this cunt man"

I just googles her tweets but only found a quote in the Scottish Express that as a teen she said "Maths is sh**e "

Don't give her the books to balance!

However she may well represent her constituents with a bit of fire and flair so good luck to her.

I wasn't impressed with her, either. While youth is a massive virtue in some jobs, I don't think it is in politics.

Good luck to her. I do think she will need it.

Replacing Douglas Alexander, a man with a great amount of experience and knowledge, is going to be extremely tough on her and hope, for the sake of her constituency, that she is up to the challenge.

56 of them, 56 ordinary people, who represent millions more ordinary people, have hit town and they are going to rock the Establishment and the Casbah

56 of them. Out of 650 MPs. I'll be interested to see how they do it.

I seem to be one of the few that is not at all impressed with this woman. I'm all for young voices in parliament but Mhari Black does not come across well.

I wonder what Sid Snot is doing nowadays, if he's alive he'll have a voice to shake up parliament. Marvellous.

P.S. I would never agree with his politics, but to even suggest that parliament is in anyway enriched by Ms Black replacing Douglas Alexander, is rather dumb. IMO.

An interesting experiment for those who have always thought that if we drag the first 56 people off the street, any high street, and plonk them in parliament, that somehow they are equipped to both make our laws (and intellectually vote on them) on numerous complex matters within a 21st century nation, looking to climb (nay punch) above our international weight.

I would bet not 1 of 56, from any street in the UK, would care a rats that we had in 2010 a European beating £157 billion annual overspend, as 'we are the 6th richest nation on earth' and clearly someone else one day will settle our debts - so would ignorantly label any attempt to balance the UK's books as "austerity".

So far so good then.

Fingers crossed she does well! Seems like a nice girl with a huge amount of passion.