Cathy Jamieson, ex-Kilmarnock & Loudon
Mark Lazarowicz, ex-Edinburgh North & Leith
Sheila Gilmore, ex-Edinburgh East THE LOST TRIBE By Terry Houston
of the Scotish Labour and Lib Dem Westminster MPs who recently got their joters will stand in the Holyrood election next year – a lot of them as list candidates.
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It is a moot point as to how successful they will be. In particular, Labour’s lost boys and girls in Never, never land appear to have the tougher task in fighting extinction; though I would proffer a fiver to the bookie who sends a taxi for me if he hears I’m in gambling mood, that the Liberal Democrats are in Queer Street, too.
The first rule of any organisation – be it a business, quango or political party – is to perpetuate
4 July 2015
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HERE is a high chance that many
A few of the ousted Scottish Labour MPs who should now stand for Holyrood.
Tere are many others who should also consider making the switch.
its existence. Perforce, Scotish Labour must try to staunch the bleeding of their close to fatal wounds. It is a straight-forward case of survival: if they do not hang together, they shall surely hang separately. Watching them fight like ferrets in a sack for control of the soul of the Labour movement, we see a party in deep denial. The vicious civil war continues, unabated but more subterranean, on both sides of the border.
While the Punch & Judy show is vastly entertaining to the serried ranks of SNP supporters who, despite our anti-hunting laws, seem to have re-introduced in the country a new type of blood sport, ie, Labour-baiting, (and in due course I am going to indulge in it, too; I simply can’t help myself), it is time to consider deeper truths.
The first is this: the Scotish Parliament, not Westminster, represents the true route to Scotish independence.
For a long time now Scotland’s voters have recognised instinctively the worth of Holyrood; it is to Edinburgh they turn first, not London, irrespective of the true realities of power. Not so our shell-shocked Labour
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