If you lived in Scotland and saw the relentless negative press the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon in particular get, Corbyn levels, it's a wonder they did as well as the have.
Prediction: Joanna Cherry will stand at the next Hollyrood election and the stage a leadership challenge.
That’s usually true, but when you’re dealing with someone who has threatened to sue the entire party hierarchy if they moved against her, then a paucity of friends is to be expected.
The level of delusion is unreal, like Alba who were pretty much, we are going to be the bigot party, lost all their deposits. I think, that a lot of voters in her constiuency were more turned off by her obsession and thought it was impacting her being a good MP to represent them
Only the inevitable brainworms could lead her to think this had anything to do with her defeat. She would have gone anyway, but the fact that even her own branch members refused to come out and canvas for her doubtless didn’t help. No one likes a litigious and serially disloyal bully.
BBC Scotland were pushing that shite on election night too. Absolutely unwilling to even consider that abandoning trans rights (and wider LGBT+ rights with Forbes) might be a negative for them