Lloyd Quinan

Lloyd Quinan (* in Edinburgh) is a Scottish politician, a former member of the Scottish National Party ( SNP) and a current member of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP).

Life

In his career Quinan worked in various areas of the media sector. So he presented on national television, the weather forecast and moderated the shipment Trial by Night on STV. In addition, he produced and presented more than 200 documentary programs. He is a member of the unions Equity and NUJ.

Political career

In 1974, Quinan joined the SNP. In the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999, Quinan applied for the direct mandate of the Dumbarton constituency, but lost the Labour candidate Jackie Baillie significantly and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. Since Quinan was also placed on the front ranks of the Regional Evaluation of the SNP for choosing Western Region of Scotland, he received one of the four list seats for the SNP in this election region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament. In the following 2003 parliamentary elections Quinan candidate in the constituency of Motherwell and Wishaw, and thus ran against the First Minister Jack McConnell. This he was defeated, and resigned from the Parliament from. In December of the same year he left the SNP and joined Tommy Sheridan's SSP to.