Who's your MP?

[Emrys]

42. It's still Brendan O'Hara, and he's standing again.

He's had something of a profile, at least for politics geeks, as the SNP's Shadow Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs.

His profile on the ground and in local media hasn't been particularly high, but he has had a vast constituency to cover, grown only larger after the Boundary Commission review which saw Argyll & Bute expanded to become Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber. He at least hasn't made any missteps.

The boundary change makes predictions based on past results more problematic, but what polling there's been so far has consistently ranked this as a safe seat for the SNP.

The only recent mail communication we've received from any party has been from the Lib Dems, with previous MP Alan Reid evidently still hankering over his old seat, which he was unceremoniously dumped from after the Lib Dems shored up Cameron's government. In the mean time, he's been an Argyll & Bute district councillor, which is probably a better match for what talents he has.

I don't know whether the Tories and Labour have even selected candidates yet. The Tory will almost certainly be one of the hoary, well-kent faces that make up the party D list of paper candidates for unlikely seats. Labour will be a little more interesting as they appear to have had problems getting candidates in Scotland, with the only recent announcements being apparatchiks being parachuted in to Highland seats from well south of the border and with scant if any connection with Scotland - not a good look even for paper candidates in no-chance constituencies. Their Glasgow by-election success a while back relied on activists been shipped up from England en masse to provide boots on the ground. That's a luxury they'll not be able to afford in a general election.