In recent months the question of whether Labour ought to consider a “progressive alliance” with other anti-Tory parties has become a major talking point on the left. Clive Lewis, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, has come out in favour of the position as has influential pro-Corbyn journalist Paul Mason. The […]
Posts Tagged ‘SNP’
Hard on the ‘Progressive Alliance’, hard on the causes of the ‘Progressive Alliance’
Oct 11th, 2016 by Ewan Gibbs and Laura Dover.
Jez there can be a Corbynite Labour Party in Scotland
Sep 21st, 2015 by Cailean Gallagher.Since the leadership election, Jeremy Corbyn has made it his priority to turn Labour into a democratic socialist party with the support of social movements. To this end, British-wide meetings have been organised by groups such as the Labour Campaign for Free Education, whose party guide for newcomers is in circulation. But socialists are also […]
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Could Jeremy Corbyn unite the Scottish Left?
Aug 4th, 2015 by Cailean Gallagher.Then catch the moments as they fly And use them as ye ought, man. Believe me, happiness is shy, And comes not aye when sought, man. Robert Burns, A Bottle and Friend Here is surely a mutiny worth waiting for. Old hands and new recruits have swung into action for Jeremy Corbyn, the old sea […]
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The tent that couldn’t stand up – a reply to Kezia Dugdale
Jul 9th, 2015 by Alistair Craig and Ewan Gibbs.“We need a big tent plan, not a core vote strategy, to win again in Scotland.”-Kezia Dugdale, 7th July 2015 That foremost authority on Scottish Labour politics, Antonio Gramsci, once gasped, “The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.” Scottish Labour has now […]
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The Not-So-Strange Death of Scottish Labour?
Jul 2nd, 2015 by Michael Muir.When the time comes to construct the pantheon of Scottish Labour leaders, Ken Macintosh MSP will surely stand shoulder to shoulder with Jim Murphy at its highest point. To Murphy’s visions of speedy boarding for veterans and booze at football games, Macintosh has, in the past few weeks, added two radical insights of his own: […]
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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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Scottish Labour repositions itself to the left of the SNP
Mar 24th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.Though the swirling waters of the River Tay looked freezing, the sun shone on Scottish Labour’s conference in Perth this weekend. And inside the conference hall, delegates seemed more confident than last year. Not necessarily that they will win the vote on independence – there is no complacency there – nor that they have got […]
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Navigating to Welsh unity against austerity
Oct 26th, 2012 by Gordon Gibson.The call was for ‘Plan B’ but unity was the dominant theme at Compass Wales’ panel debate in Cardiff this week. A fine array of speakers, led by Guardian columnist, John Harris, came together to debate Compass’s ‘Plan B’, their alternative to austerity. Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, the Green Party’s Anthony Slaughter and John […]
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Scotland: at least Labour could oppose independence independently
Oct 19th, 2012 by David Osler.In a part of Britain in which the population still gets overly excited about the ideological alignments of its football clubs, the British flag is not just a neutral patriotic symbol. Thirteen-year-old Lee Heron was earlier this year sent home from his high school in Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, for wearing a Union Jack T-shirt his mum […]
