I mean, will the outcome finally expose the lie of a 'one party state' that is now peddled about Scotland ?
It's votes and voters that install the the party (or parties) to government.
So, come May, the electorate will demonstrate what they think of Labour's lack of coherent policies befitting a government. Last week's (7th January) demolishing yet again of Labour leader, Dugdale by the FM at FMQs * exposes Labour's failure to establish a workable policy in relation to house building: actual requirement and need.
The proposed £3,000.00 from Labour would only be available to those who could afford and access a mortgage, any mortgage plus the remainder of the deposit. I think I hear the bank of mummy and daddy stepping in, again.And that's just housing.
Barking objections and criticism across the spectrum of Government policies and performances without a planned follow up of cogent policies won't convince the voters.
I hate to think what this Thursday will bring? An onslaught about Barbours, wellies and a perceived lack of empathy with the common folk? **
Come, come the opposition, you have to up your game!
The prospects for Labour in Scotland are even more daunting when you look to Westminster.
Afterall, how would you feel if that was your HQ?
The rapid decline of UK Labour with the return to confusion over policies, internal fighting and backstabbing, the return to the fear of the loony left being whipped up by the majority of the press and media,,is not merely the death throes of a party.
It signals the long shadow of right wing rulers ruling from Westminster with less and less MPs, masquerading as socialists: a dysfunctional rump propping up a centre that is becoming more and more distanced by the Scottish electorate on a daily basis.
I learnt much from watching and listening to the late great Margo McDonald, including listening to the taxi drivers. Just last Saturday,, in a cold, dreich Glasgow, I was told by yet another life long socialist about his falling out of love with Labour, the dilemma of who to vote for in May, a leaning to RISE, untried, untested. But his real hope....apart from living long enough to see it...was for a socialist labour emerging in an independent Scotland....and all that for far less than a tenner and a smile!
But what will continue to inspire many in the lead up to May is the visible re engagement of independence on the political agenda. For many it has never gone away. It is easy to see the continued efforts to debate and persuade, to confront areas of disagreement: finance, economic viability, EU membership and win over the doubters, Which woman approaching retirement here hasn't thought about her pension?
The more recent inferences though remind us it is not always possible to control events outwith Scotland and beyond: voting outcomes in the remainder of the UK vis a vis the EU: oil prices and their impact on world trade.....and how such as those and others impact on us here.
But that doesn't mean the momentum for independence has stopped or gone away.
So, Come May, if they don't vote for you, your party, your policies, you can only blames yourselves, not the victors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margo_MacDonald
http://www.rise.scot/
*Did you know you could attend the First Minister's question time at the Scottish Parliament?
Demand for tickets to First Minister’s Questions is extremely high.
Find out how to book tickets for First Minister’s Question Time at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/visitandlearn/12516.aspx
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| **Such derision in the press and media, focussing on (female) attire,but ignoring the contacts, sympathy and praise: with the victims and survivors, the overworked rescue, fire, police, volunteers. oh, and the new funding. |
