How Scottish Labour's Kezia Dugdale may have handed the election to the Tories

[Denzil_DC]

12. See, that's one of Scottish Labour's major problems right there.

It's all gang up with the Tories and Lib Dems to bash the SNP on devolved issues and hyped-up hysteria about a referendum issue (that had already been voted through at Holyrood) at a Westminster election at all costs, when their efforts in alliance with the Scottish Tories and Lib Dems sabotaged their own party's prospects of coming a lot closer to ousting the Tories at Westminster. They came away from it with 7 seats, the Tories won 13.

Not that I expect the rump of Labour that's left up here to join the dots. They weren't thinking UK-wide because they didn't support Corbyn, and thought Labour had barely a chance of surviving, let alone reducing the Tories' majority to a wafer.

Let's hope the new intake of MPs they're sending down south are better than the last lot ("the feeble fifty&quot , which by all accounts (from English Labour MPs no less) were useless and too obsessed with internal party jockeying to be effective.

ETA: Oh, and:

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Arthur Scargill @ScargillArthur

The mentality of the anti-referendum protest voters in Scotland revealed: if they are moronic enough to vote Conservative, it says it all.

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