This morning’s poll in the the Daily Record sums up the problem Scottish Labour faces whoever wins the leadership positions: SNP 46%, Labour 24%, Tories 17%, Lib Dem 6%, Others 8%. So what’s the answer? Nicola Sturgeon in her first speech as SNP leader this weekend clearly sought to position the SNP to the left of Labour. Whilst […]
Posts Tagged ‘Scotland’
This could be the last ditch for Labour in Scotland, and the answer isn’t Murphy
Nov 18th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.
What radical exception can break Jim Murphy’s rule?
Nov 4th, 2014 by Cailean Gallagher.What should we expect from the civil war in Scottish Labour? Some veterans of Labour’s last civil war, still haunted by the machiavellian menace of Blairism, see Jim Murphy’s leadership bid as part of a long-term plan to revive the right-wing of the Labour party. If/when Labour lose in 2015, brother Ed will resign and brother David (whose […]
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Why Labour could do without Balls and chains
Nov 4th, 2014 by Peter Kenyon.Ed Miliband is stuck. He wants to lead One Nation. But Scotland got close to going alone. That independence referendum in mid-September showed Labour voters in its heartland authorities in Glasgow wanted out nearly as much as the SNP. UKIP, while tearing the Conservative Party apart, gave Labour a fright in the Heywood and Middleton by-election […]
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Katy Clark to stand for deputy leadership of Scottish Labour
Nov 1st, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Katy Clark, MP for North Ayrshire and Arran since 2005, announced today that she was intending to seek nominations for the deputy leadership of the Scottish Labour Party following the resignation of Anas Sarwar under pressure from Jim Murphy in order to deflect criticism of the prospect of Westminster MP being elected as leader of […]
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Poll demonstrates how little Scottish Labour is trusted to represent Scotland
Oct 31st, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Yesterday we reported on the Ipsos MORI Scottish poll (for which full tables are now available) showing a 30% swing from Labour to the SNP since the 2010 general election. Today a YouGov poll (detailed tables here) carried out entirely after Johann Lamont’s resignationconfirms the dramatic threat to Labour in Scotland, albeit with a somewhat […]
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Four days of predicting a Blairite leader & poll points to Scottish Labour meltdown
Oct 30th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The latest poll from Ispos-MORI is a devastating blow to Labour which underlines the desperate state in which the New Labour years (as well as the failure of Ed Miliband to put them behind us) have left the Scottish Labour party. The poll shows a 30% swing across Scotland from the 2010 general election, leaving […]
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Murphy as leader would destroy Scottish Labour. Only one from the Left can save it
Oct 27th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.The Labour Party is in “complete meltdown” in Scotland says the SNP’s leader-in-waiting Nicola Sturgeon, adding “the scale of the infighting between Scottish Labour and Labour at Westminster is exposed for all to see.” And she’s not wrong. Scottish Labour is about to have a debate about its direction and very soul, a debate that profoundly affects the […]
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Labour must outflank the SNP from the Left
Oct 25th, 2014 by Neil Findlay.This article was written prior to the resignation of Johann Lamont and is reposted here because it is a clear political statement by someone who many on the Left in Scotland would like to see as the next leader of Scottish Labour, and covers the same ground as Neil’s speech to the Campaign for Socialism conference […]
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Why energy policy should be devolved
Oct 22nd, 2014 by Dave Watson.Devolving energy policy would tidy up the often conflicting mix of devolved and reserved powers and enable Scotland to develop new approaches to energy policy. At present energy is a largely reserved matter to Westminster. Specific reservations in Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 include the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity; the […]
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A Welsh view of Scotland’s ‘No’ vote: the end, or the end of the beginning?
Oct 7th, 2014 by Nick Davies.‘Settled for a generation’ was the confident assertion of the metropolitan commentariat after Scotland’s referendum resulted in a bigger than expected margin of defeat for independence. An independent Scotland may be off the agenda in the immediate term but we should remember Zhou En-lai’s famous remark about the effects of the French revolution: “too early […]
