Tweet Johann has consolidated her lead in the race to be Leader of Scottish Labour, it emerged today, as supporting nominations were published by the Scottish Party.She now leads in every section of the electoral college, with a commanding lead in the trade union and affiliates section when the size of organisations is taken into [...]
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Nominations close in Scottish Labour leadership election
Nov 4th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Nominations closed today in the contest for Leader and Deputy Leader of Scottish Labour, with three valid candidates for each contest Johann Lamont is narrowly ahead in nominations for the Leadership and both she and Davidson have also got the backing of the GMB, although Anas Sarwar is well ahead in nominations for the [...]
Maximum devolution, maximum advantage
Oct 25th, 2011 by Malcolm Chisholm.Tweet The review of Scottish Labour will be considered at a special conference this weekend. Malcolm Chisholm MSP argues that Scottish Labour will not be able to shape Scotland in its own image unless it is willing to move on to define and embrace Devolution Max. Many of us may not be in any doubt [...]
Full devolution proposed for Scottish Labour
Sep 11th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet The review of the Labour Party’s structure in Scotland has been completed, with a report proposing the full devolution of power to the Scottish party agreed unanimously by the Scottish Executive. Undoubtedly, the proposals would re-orient the Scottish Party to Holyrood in a decisive way, basing constituency parties on Holyrood boundaries rather than Westminster [...]
Toryism is dead in Scotland
Sep 9th, 2011 by Owen Jones.Tweet My proudest political moment remains, aged five, starting a chant against the Tories. Along with 50,000 Scots, my family – then living in Falkirk – had taken to the streets of Glasgow in the spring of 1990 to march against the poll tax. Brandishing a small flyer, I precociously yelled the slogan “Kick the [...]
Tom Harris MP – Blairite candidate for Scottish Leader?
Aug 23rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet There’s an interesting development in the race for Scottish Leader. Tom Harris, Westminster MP and well-known blogger, has put himself forward as a potential candidate for the role of Scottish party leader at Holyrood, saying on the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme that he was doing so because of the lack of candidates to [...]
Inverclyde result was a draw. It’ll take more than an Irn-Bru re-branding to turn it round.
Jul 7th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Ed Miliband may be relieved at last week’s by-election result in Inverclyde, but for Labour in Scotland, it was no better than a draw. Labour held the seat with almost the same share as the late David Cairns in what was a good general election result for Labour locally and in Scotland. That’s the [...]
Ed Miliband needs to sort out his myopia
May 12th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Yesterday, Ed Miliband put his brother’s leadership campaign manager, Jim Murphy, in charge of the review of Scottish Labour following the disastrous showing in the Holyrood elections last week. Jim Murphy is a bright man, who no doubt has many interesting things to say about the Scottish election result, and no doubt said some [...]
Time to bury New Labour in Scotland
May 7th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet The results in Scotland are a disaster for Labour, but they are a disaster made in Scotland. According to poll results, in a Westminster election, Labour’s support in Scotland would be slightly up on last year’s General election, which was itself, at 42%, a good result for Labour, up 2.5% on 2005. Not that this [...]
Scottish voters turn away from Scottish Labour, not British Labour
May 3rd, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Tweet Labour looks to be heading for a good election result on Thursday in England, an excellent result in Wales, but defeat in Scotland. Obviously we hope that Labour’s fate will improve in Scotland by Thursday — at least the SNP lead has dipped significantly in the latest polls — but, in any event, the [...]
