{"id":187702,"date":"2023-10-06T02:48:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=187702"},"modified":"2023-10-06T02:48:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T02:48:03","slug":"taking-out-the-bins-on-polling-day-dumped-snp-mp-margaret-ferrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/taking-out-the-bins-on-polling-day-dumped-snp-mp-margaret-ferrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking out the bins on polling day\u2026 dumped SNP MP Margaret Ferrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Taking out the bins on polling day\u2026 dumped SNP MP Margaret Ferrier<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shamed Nationalist wheels out the rubbish as voters head to polls in her former constituency\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Heavy rain hits turnout \u2013 but Labour are still confident of \u2018seismic\u2019 win\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Washout conditions are believed to have hit turnout in a crucial by-election where a \u2018confident\u2019 Labour Party is hoping to defeat the SNP.<\/p>\n<p>Activists from all parties braved the elements yesterday to try to get their voters to polling stations across the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency.<\/p>\n<p>But there were widespread concerns about the effect of the weather on the by-election, which could be a barometer of support for the crisis-hit SNP and the strength of any Labour resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was triggered after voters removed former Nationalist MP Margaret Ferrier in Scotland\u2019s first recall petition.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrier flouted Covid rules by travelling between London and Glasgow while knowingly infected with coronavirus, and she was subsequently convicted in court of \u2018recklessly\u2019 exposing people to harm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/20\/76218869-12599371-image-m-4_1696533157089.jpg\" height=\"543\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Disgraced former Nationalist MP Margaret Ferrier wheeling her bin out yesterday as voters headed to polling stations in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, the constituency she used to represent<\/p>\n<p>It has left the SNP desperately battling to retain the seat, which its disgraced former MP won with a 5,230 majority in 2019. But Labour was odds-on favourite to win.<\/p>\n<p>Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar had said a \u2018seismic\u2019 victory could signal the decline of the SNP and be a \u2018launching pad\u2019 back into power for his party.<\/p>\n<p>With heavy rain falling during much of polling day, Mr Sarwar posted a video of himself using a hairdryer to dry out sheets of election material used by activists,<\/p>\n<p>saying: \u2018It gives a whole new meaning to \u201chairdryer treatment\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>One Labour source out in the \u2018grim\u2019 weather told the Scottish Daily Mail: \u2018Turnout does seem very low. Everyone\u2019s soaked and the horrible weather isn\u2019t helping getting the vote out.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at 5pm, with five hours to go until polling stations closed, they added: \u2018Despite the turnout, we\u2019re fairly confident we\u2019re getting our supporters out to vote.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>An SNP doorknocker also said the relentless rain \u2018wasn\u2019t an ideal situation for a by-election\u2019, adding: \u2018People in this constituency have been bombarded about this by-election for months, but I reckon this weather will do turnout no favours. We\u2019ve been getting a great response on the doorstep, though \u2013 Labour seem to be taking this contest for granted.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/05\/21\/76218867-12599371-image-m-18_1696538122407.jpg\" height=\"902\" width=\"633\"><\/p>\n<p>The by-election was triggered after Margaret Ferrier was recalled after flouting Covid rules<\/p>\n<p>Analysis of 34 academic studies into voter turnout for elections, carried out by Copenhagen University, concluded that the \u2018vast majority\u2019 show rainy polling days had a negative impact on how many people voted.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of polling, Mr Sarwar said defeating the SNP could prove as \u2018seismic\u2019 for Labour as Winnie Ewing\u2019s win for the SNP in the same constituency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her historic 1967 victory in Hamilton \u2013 the party\u2019s first post-war win \u2013 is credited with being the catalyst for the SNP\u2019s rise to power.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarwar added: \u2018You can talk about the by-election that Winnie Ewing won here many years back, you can talk about the Glasgow East by-election that we lost to the SNP. Both were regarded as seismic. I believe this has the potential to be a seismic by-election, and then as a launchpad as we head towards that next general election.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>SNP candidate Katy Loudon said a victory for her party would \u2018let the Westminster establishment know that Scotland must not be ignored\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12599371\/Taking-bins-polling-day-dumped-SNP-MP-Margaret-Ferrier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking out the bins on polling day\u2026 dumped SNP MP Margaret Ferrier Shamed Nationalist wheels out the rubbish as voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Taking out the bins on polling day\u2026 dumped SNP MP Margaret Ferrier - 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