Shall we have a Scotsnet general election thread?

[JennyLake]

This WILL be interesting. Even if it doesn’t rid us of the SNP from Holyrood, it will provide a good barometer of public opinion on the recent exploits of the SNP.

Farewell Blackman and Black!

Ours has just declared -bloody SNP. Bugger

Johanna Cherry out in my constituency. She was the only SNP MP I wouldn’t have minded staying (although not enough to vote for her mind!). The Labour guy that got in though is a local councillor and pretty much spends his whole time blaming everyone else for everything and never actually doing anything himself…I already know he will be disappointing as an MP.

Kirsten Oswald has lost her seat 😆🖕

Wow! Pleased to see the SNP lose so many seats.

I'd be delighted if Patrick Harvey & Ross Whatshisname from the Greens were out too!

We'll need to wait for that - they're both MSP's.

A 59% turnout is pretty low.

SNP ended up with 7 seats in total - that's an absolute routing!

@Waitwhat23 superb!! I was hoping for single figures…so that’s 85% ish loss of seats 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thats a mandate to shut the fuck up about any referendum

Joanna Cherry comment quote from BBC webpage

Joanna Cherry says this is "Labour's night" in which the Conservative votes collapsed and went to Labour rather than SNP.
Cherry says the SNP must now have an "open and honest appraisal" of tonight's events to learn from them and reverse them in future.
She says there has been a lot of criticism about policy priorities formed under Nicola Sturgeon, with a focus on identity politics "perhaps to the detriment" of the public's priorities.
Cherry adds recent scandals may have called into question the party's integrity in the eyes of the public.

I agree with this

Yeah me too. They took their eye off the basics of education and the economy to spend far too much time on the likes of Isla Bryson. A lot of that is down to the odious Patrick Harvey.

Ooh, hang on, I thought that all the Scottish constituencies had been announced but there's a couple left - sitting at 8 at the moment. Still a massive routing though!

I know not expressly Scot related but worth noting/celebrating this here, given we're all paying the price - Liz Truss has lost her seat!!! 😆😆😆

Four still to declare, SNP have a chance in only one of those I'd say - so I reckon we're looking at single digits 😆

Can Swinney stay on after this doing?

Swinney will stay he has been in too short a time for any blame for this right now.

he needs however to hope folk forget he was sturgeors right hand

No love for the SNP, but I’m sorry Joanna Cherry lost her seat.

Labour need to make sure this isn’t a one off and they keep the momentum through to the Scottish elections. If I was Starmer I’d be putting several Scottish MPs in prominent positions. Douglas Alexander definitely should be in the cabinet.

I think he'll almost certainly retain the cabinet he has, given his mantra of governing competently (most of the shadow cabinet has been in their role for far longer than Sunak's cabinet, for example); Starmer's cabinet all have the established experience, and thus a good handle, of their departments.

He can only blame himself given the way he acted with the party's chosen candidate and running his 3 jobs.

Only SNP loss I also think is a shame is Joanna Cherry. If only she weren't into indy.

Hope Starmer now realises to take some from Scotland into significant roles.

Truss and Rees-Mogg losing their seats made me ROFL.

I think Labour MSP's will be Starmer's key over the next two years. It will be important for Sarwar and Starmer to be seen to have continuity and a very good relationship.

I know this is just an anti-SNP echo chamber but as a supporter of theirs I hope they will start listening to people’s concerns as there are obviously things they have done which have really put people off (the gender recognition stuff and the hate crime bill maybe? Although I reckon both of these would have been heavily pushed by the Greens). I really wouldn’t like to see a Labour majority Scottish Parliament at the same time as a Labour Westminster government as I think Scottish Labour will just agree with Westminster rather than think about what is right for Scotland. A Tory Scot parliament would be horrific in my opinion and a labour Tory coalition nearly as bad and surely unworkable. Whatever happens in Scottish politics for the next 2 years I think it will be interesting.

The SNP have deserved that trouncing just as much as the Tories.

Arrogant, corrupt, out of touch and incompetent.

I'm very disappointed that the SNP has held here, though not unexpected in Dundee.
At least he had a hugely reduced majority.

They need to get shot if the creepy greens. But do they have enough money to be viable? And it really does look as though there is no appetite for independence and the ongoing constitutional debate.

I think Labour in both parliaments would be great for Scotland. Time to focus on things that make life better, not whataboutery and gender/pakestine/independence

I think independence support is still about 47%. But it’s undeliverable at the moment.

I think they are shot of the Greens? Governing as a minority at the moment?

Do you not think Palestine is an important issue? Tens of thousands of children being killed by a country we give arms to?