Failed SNP candidates slam party for election loss

Oh dear. The SNP faced a gruelling general election result this week, losing 38 seats to end up on just nine as voters north of the border overwhelmingly backed Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot. A number of parliamentarians lost their seats in nationalist exodus and some of the party’s failed candidates aren’t taking things well.

In Falkirk, SNP hopeful Toni Giugliano – who recorded a rather, um, bizarre song for his election campaign – lost to Labour’s Euan Stainbank in a constituency that hasn’t voted red since 2010. Taking to Facebook to blast the outcome, Giugliano hit out at his party’s poor result and, er, the nationalist MSP for his area, writing:

Voters have sent a the SNP a very clear message to get its house in order. I agree with John Swinney that we must heal our relationship with voters – and Falkirk is the place to start. An MSP found to have breached rules on parliamentary expenses must never again be protected – quite the opposite, they must be removed from office.