Meet Mhairi Black, Britain's youngest MP for 350 years, and a SNP firebrand

[KamaAina]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/SNP/11568878/SNP-firebrand-in-line-to-oust-Douglas-Alexander-in-one-of-Labours-safest-seats.html

Mhairi Black, the UK’s youngest MP since the 17th century, claimed the SNP’s most remarkable scalp north of the border, and is poised to become one of Westminster’s most unlikely parliamentarians.

The 20-year-old law student, who is in fourth year at Glasgow University, defeated Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary, by overturning a majority of more than 16,000 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South....

Not surprisingly, she is undergoing something of a transformation. As a member of Twitter since she was 14, she has had to delete a number of ill-advised and foul-mouth teenage tweets - but not before they were spotted by her opponents.

She called Smirnoff Ice the “drink of gods”, said she “f****** hated Celtic” - she is a keen Partick Thistle supporter - and talked about waking up beside beer cans and pizza.

Smirnoff Ice? In Scotland? Wouldn't the "drink of gods" be single-malt?!

[Ron Obvious]

1. "Smirnoff Ice? In Scotland?"

That's not half so incredible as hearing someone calling themselves a "keen Partick Thistle" supporter.

Billy Connolly said that when he was growing up, he thought the team were called "Partick Thistle Nil"

I hate to explain the joke, but it's from hearing the scores read out. It would be along the lines of "Hearts three, Dundee United two. Rangers 5, Partick Thistle nil", and so on.

[malthaussen]

2. Guess that's why she deleted the tweets.

How she can be a member of the SNP with those values baffles.

-- Mal

[aikoaiko]

3. Putin's network is everywhere.