What Scottish Labour's appeal to Yes voters really told us

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MORE proof that Labour's promise of 'change' is meaningless came just a few hours before Keir Starmer took to the podium to share his…

's promise of"change" is meaningless came just a few hours before Keir Starmer took to the podium to share his platitudes with us on the final day of the Labour conference.

Labour refuse to accept that desire was expressed when parties standing on an explicit and unarguable commitment to another referendum won a majority of the seats inSarwar has spent the two years since May 2021 denying that the Scottish Government has a mandate for a referendum. Sarwar can't say, because the answer to that question is way above his pay grade. But he certainly does not appear to have any great interest in pressuring his boss to answer it either.

However, all those voters who returned the great majority of Scotland's MPs – specifically the 44 SNP MPs and the two Alba MPs who support independence and the right of the people of Scotland to another referendum – apparently do not speak for Scotland.Scotland will not be pressing him to explain the Labour party special arithmetic that makes two a bigger number than 46.

This is not and has never been about what the Labour party can do for Scotland, it's about what Scotland can do for the Labour party. Labour's years in the electoral wilderness in Scotland have taught it nothing.

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