Posts Tagged Holyrood

DECLINE AND FALL OF SCOTTISH LABOUR

The seeds of last Thursday’s decimation at the Polls of Scottish Labour were germinating long before the 2014 Referendum.  Worried by the rise of the Nationalists in the Seventies, the late John Smith, one of Labour’s sharpest thinkers, saw critically limited devolution as the solution. His prodigy,

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Johann escapes from Jurassic Party

For many people, the most startling revelation to emerge from Johann Lamont’s dramatic resignation   was her enforced silence by Labour at Westminster   from voicing any criticism of the ‘Bedroom Tax’ because Ed Milliband had yet to form an opinion of it. We are talking here about

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