itemprop=description content=SO the votes have been counted, the winner announced and the many losers sent homeward to think again. Rutherglen and Hamilton West was always going…
SNP candidate Katy Loudon outside the polling station for the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election
The recall of the former SNP MP – a process assisted by the SNP – ensured that things did not begin well. The Labour Party did not have to look too far to find many political weaknesses to exploit in the weeks of the campaign.If social media is any way to judge campaigns, it was clear that both Labour and the SNP relied heavily on what has become known as the “payroll vote” – MPs, MSPs, councillors and their staff.
The countdown to the UK General Election has begun in earnest. In probably a year’s time, all of Scotland will have its say. Based on this by-election, it is not going to be a good result for the SNP or for Scotland., it is when that country is Scotland and there is nothing bad to report.
By implication, when it came to discussing the UK Government’s “levelling up”, that ambition apparently did not include Scotland . But when drug and alcohol deaths have been referenced recently, it has invariably been made abundantly clear, across BBC news and political programmes, that the tragic figures are relatively higher in Scotland as distinct from the rest of the UK.
Might I remind him and others who are guilty of this calumny that we, as citizens of Scotland, are not “up”, we are “here”. Why the need for a southern frame of reference? Those doing this have a severe dose of The Cringe, and need a course of rehabilitation.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories.
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