The long and winding road to the death of the "Labour Party" in Scotland

 Since its birth 120 years ago with its centre left philosophy, the Labour Party have found a natural home north of the border. 

 

Keir Hardie (A Scot from Lanarkshire), Ramsay MacDonald (A Scot from Lossiemouth in Morayshire) and Arthur Henderson (A Glaswegian) were amongst the principal architects of this movement to improve the conditions for the working classes.  

The principal roots then of the Labour Party, stemmed and were nurtured in Scotland !  

How then did this party of socialism find itself on the margins of politics in its natural homeland?  In simple terms the movement has had weak leadership allied to the drift of the Labour Party away from socialism to a right of centre party of limp "Tory Lite" politicos who are only in politics for the money and most assuredly not for the good of the electorate !

In Westminster, Labours representation there is now reduced to only a single (and frankly useless) M.P. Ian Murray.

As the jacket he wears above will show, this is very definitely a "Unionist" MP.  Even the Tories have 6 MPs in Westminster and they are frankly despised in Scotland.

In Holyrood under the umbrella of the Scottish Government, and led by probably the least successful leader the Labour Party in Scotland (Richard Leonard) the Labour grouping still manages to get fewer MSPs than the Tories and this is thanks only to the "List" system within the assembly.

That the party should be led by a political nonentity to oblivion in Scotland must concern Keir Starmer, as what was formerly the base support for the Labour Party as a whole is a skeleton of its former body !

Requiescant In Pace Labour !