THEY all got the memo. Every Labour spokesperson used the electoral buzzword “change” as they revelled in their two by-election triumphs in…
spokesperson used the electoral buzzword “change” as they revelled in their two by-election triumphs in England. As in “time for a change”, and “Labour is the change”.unsurprisingly went for a different take: “Governments always lose by-elections”. Some do, right enough, but not with such extraordinary regularity as the current
Well, up to a point, Mr B. It’s certainly important that a positive vision of independence is both fashioned and sold. The independence family would assuredly welcome some thoughtful flesh attached to indy bones. Astute observers will have noted that almost the solitary Scottish reference in Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Liverpool was to Labour’s by-election victory. No mention of Gordon Brown’s magnum opus on devo-max version 3.0.
Several cats leapt out of Shanks’s bag during these observations. One was that the dismantling of the Scottish Parliament was no Conservative accident but a very specific policy he’d be content to reprise. Not even to mention building two hugely expensive UK Government hubs in our two major cities, because after all you need somewhere to house the UK Cabinet when it tours to its northern fiefdom. Has anyone seen them in either building?It’s because of all of this that it makes me more than a mite nervous when people talk about negotiating independence with Westminster.
THE outlines of the upcoming UK General Election campaigns are already quite visible. Scottish Labour will tell us that only they can turf out the Tories. It is a potentially seductive pitch, given how cordially that latter party is loathed in most of our country.
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