Politics Kezia Dugdale

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I don't think it would make any difference who was leader of Labour post 2014 Scottish referendum. They are a tarnished brand in Scotland now. She's no Donald Dewar or John Smith that's for sure but I do think she's not given credit for doing an OK job in impossible circumstances. There is of course the myth that under a more left wing leader Labour would be doing better which I don't buy into TBH.
 
I actually think that if Corbyn were to come out in favour of independance then the scottish party would pick up a good few votes.They lost a lot of ground by seeming to be in bed with the Tories over that one.A lot of people went over to the SNP simply because of that.But Kezia is so weak.One minute she was for stabbing Corbyn in the back, the next she saw that position was untenable so she switched volt face. I remember seeing an interview soon after Corbyn had won for the second time,I think it was on the Sunday Politics Show, and it was real car crashTV, it really was that bad.Every time I see her on TV, I think ,'is that the best you've got?'.I too think there is no way back for Labour in Scotland unless they back indy.
 
Lab to indy runs the massive risk of more pro union lab going to tories and Ukip....

They would pick up new votes but how many old votes would they lose.
 
I think if you scratch the surface,that you will find the vast majority of Scotland's Labour vote has gone to the SNP.Scotland's left are looking to an alternative message to the usual pro austerity message being pumped through from the Tories and they don't see that coming from Labour.But a lot has changed since the referendom debate.Corbyn has been voted in with a huge mandate from the normal labour party members.He has been stabbed in the back from the PLP and characters like Kezia.With 500,000 new members joining Labour since Corbyn was elected is a very significant moment,that's like the whole of Edinburgh, joining the Labour Party.But Kezia,hasn't, or seems incapable of taking that on board.Like Jim Murphy before her, she seems incapable of coming up with a left alternative to the SNP.She doesn't seem to notice what is going on south of the border.She could have said she supports the Junior Doctors,or that she supports the TA strike in Durham,or the Rail Strikers,but nery a word has come out of her head.She could have had a real go at the SNP's cut backs in Council Jobs in Aberdeen, or we might have heard she supported the last College Lecturers strike, but again either she didn't speak up or it went unreported.Where does she stand on the election in the Unite Union? Is she backing Len McCluscky, or is she perhaps backing Coryn or the left winger Ian Allison? When Paul Mason makes the statement that from now on the only votes for Momentum should be inside the Labour Party, does she have a position on that? We really want to know Kezia, because right now you have got nothing to say.
 
If rUK Labour came out in favour of Scottish Independence Labour would go stellar in Scotland.

Scottish Labour/Kezia would still have mair faces than the toon clock but it would spank the Tories and could even run the Nats close.

Who knows. Such honesty might even give them a wee bit more credibilIty down south. I'm sure those that have a fuck down there noticed how easily Labour bent over for the Torys and how sickening it must have been for them.
 
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