Professor Tom Devine advocates soul searching and radical reappraisal for Scottish Labour, and talks of the intellectual chasm.
All of this escapes Ken Macintosh, Labour smoothie, touted as replacement for Iain Gray. "Your front bench team were constantly outclassed by the SNP team ..." ISABEL FRASER
KEN MACINTOSH: "... over the last four years...in most of the Holyrood debates, the intellectual argument was nearly always won by Labour."
Ken wonders how many members of the public "actually watched" these debates. Well, I watched all of them, Ken (and have most of them on disk) but I wonder if you "actually watched" them, or if you were present, actually listened to them?
Ken exemplifies the blinkered, amnesiac denial of reality by the Labour Party, especially in Scotland. They cannot confront the chasm (two chasms, in fact - one intellectual, the other moral) so they dive in head first, hoping to learn to fly on the way down.
Ken, your mackintosh is not just keeping the rain out, it is also excluding reality. The eponymous inventor of rubber-proofing of cloth and of the mackintosh (born and brought up near my birthplace in Dennistoun) died of suffocation in his own coat on a hot day.
If the Scottish Labour Party elects you as its next leader, it is liable to do the same ...
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Absolutely. Another point Ken makes in that clip is about the rich and poor divide as exemplified by the Sunday Times "rich list". But surely the number of mega-rich hedgefund holders, shareholders etc rose hugely under the stewardship - and direct leverage - of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's administrations!!
ReplyDeleteAnd if Ken is so concerned about this, then why did his party oppose the SNP's supermarket tax proposals brought?
Shame the wonderful Isobel Fraser didn't bring these points up...but then there is so MUCH to discuss there just isn't time!
My consolation is that the post-revolution Scottish Labour Party are just going to be digging themselves into deeper and deeper holes from now on. The people have had their eyes opened - and now they are staring in astonishment.
Thanks, Quinie frae Angus - points well made ...
ReplyDeleteI think they need to be renamed "The Joker party" because they are a total joke as if they have all been released from some weird funny farm.
ReplyDeleteIf he's the sort of candidate that thinks he could be a leader, as does Lamont, then all's well and good.
ReplyDeleteThe Labourites are saying they want a 'big beast' to beat Salmond.
a) Salmond regularly duffed up Smith and Dewar and the rest of them on TV without breaking sweat.
b) the team this 'big beast' would be able to produce would be composed of tiny rodents. All teeth and no bite.