I am becoming more convinced that the Labour Party is finished and has become an irrelevance. If Labour has any common sense they will come clean and admit that they sold the Scottish people a pack of lies at the referendum with their vow. They will then admit that what is being offered to the Scots in the new Scotland Bill is an insult and stop trying to defend it. If they took such a course of action, then the people would probably accept their confession and give them another chance. But that will not happen and what convinces me most about Labour's imminent demise is the appalling personnel that represent them at the top. All of the candidates for the leadership have scoffed at the idea of an independent Scottish Labour Party, and I repeat, an independent Scottish party is Labour's only hope in Scotland because Scotland and England are now set on two very different agendas and political trajectories. These people are not in denial about what is happening to them, it is an outright refusal to accept it. Most of the people vying for the national leadership are bigger Tories than the real Tories and have all bought into the austerity argument. They are fully committed to Thatcher's "there is no alternative" and are quite incapable of any genuine intellectual solutions to the crisis of neoliberalism and free market economics. Not one of the candidates have spoken out against the cuts, they argue about how to implement them, but not about the principle of cuts.
Labour's only MP in Scotland, Ian Murray, is an example. You would think that if only for his own survival he would take his party to task and seek to reverse its demonstrable incompetence but his slavish kowtowing to the familiar London party line epitomises the complete lack of talent in the Labour Party and as for Kezia Dugdale, if anyone in the Labour Party thinks she is the answer, then they haven't even begun to understand the question. She may well be a very nice lady, but she makes Jim Murphy look intelligent. She appears to be quite incapable of answering any question without attacking the SNP. These people still haven't grasped why so many of their own supporters voted SNP and are making no attempt to understand it. As I keep saying, many people are only voting SNP as a vehicle for opposition to Westminster and its personnel. The SNP are a means to an end and attacking them cuts no ice with such people as they are not SNP supporters and only become increasingly disgusted with Labour's childish behaviour and refusal to see reality. This is the result of an overweening arrogance built up over many decades of undisputed power, they genuinely think they have a right to be dominant in Scotland, which makes the future all the brighter for those who wish to see an independent Scotland because if that is the principal opposition to the independence argument then we are home to tea, because, although people like me are not natural SNP supporters, there is no doubt that they are talented, capable and have the best leader in the UK by a long way.
I repeat, for Labour to recover in Scotland they will have to be very different from England. The UK is finished, it is only a matter of time. Scotland and England are two very different and quite incompatible cultural entities now. The fissures have been appearing for many years, but they became very graphic during Mad Tony's spell in government and were made worse by Daphne Broon and his disastrous Premiership. Scotland was lied to, persistently and repeatedly, and were treated with contempt by Labour. With the Tories the Scots are never in any doubt that they are regarded with utter contempt, indeed hatred, but they have come to realise that these views were shared equally by Labour. The Tories dismiss us, Labour takes us for granted. No longer. Labour has been sent homeward to think again, the problem is that they do not have the intellect to manage a decent bout of reflection. They have time yet, but it is fast running out. Perhaps I will offer my services as an adviser? The problem is they are not worth saving. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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