The dogged determination of Scottish Labour to insult the Scottish electorate is a source of constant slack-jawed astonishment to us. Over the years we’ve lost count of the number of times the party’s politicians have effectively said “People are just too stupid to vote for us”, in the apparent belief that abuse is the way to win back support.
But it’s not always so overt. The subtler ways in which the party treats voters like morons include the assumption that people’s memories only go back to yesterday’s newspapers, and there can surely be no more stark illustration than its recent adoption of the attack line that the SNP are standing “shoulder to shoulder with the Tories”.
We’re big fans of socialism ourselves, so when a number of delegates at the Scottish Labour conference today, including UK leader Jeremy Corbyn, revived an old Keir Hardie line we were quite excited.
Michelle Mone, the fake-tan-and-diet-pills tycoon who threatened to leave Scotland if the SNP won the 2007 Holyrood election (but didn’t when they did), then threatened to leave if Yes won the referendum (but did when it didn’t), now lives in a very expensive flat by the Thames in London with a lovely view of Tower Bridge.
On the left, Jim Murphy campaigning for the Scottish Labour leadership a few months ago (the backdrop is distinctive, placing the pic sometime last November).
This is such a joyful and positive children's book. The fact that @RooneyRachel has had to endure sustained harassment for writing it should give everyone pause for thought. This is our statement in support of Rachel Rooney. #MyBodyisMe https://t.co/gJsgB5xP9T
@DrMoragKerr @WingsScotland At my last count he'd given 55 different scenarios in which he'd resign, 53 of which happened without him subsequently resigning
I love it the way *David Mundell* thinks that people in Scotland are voting for a (seriously hacked off) private Japanese twitter account. https://t.co/gCHaJbOhxC
