In the Herald today:
Scottish Labour will go into next year’s Holyrood election opposed to a second independence referendum, its leader Richard Leonard has confirmed.
You have to admire their principles if not their brains as they stand against the tide of public opinion.
With the last 4 polls putting them third, behind the Tories even in a time of Boris, averaging 15% and with their leader trusted by only 6%, they’re going with the same old, same old.
Not only are they perilously weak, but in February, 31% of their supporters said Yes to an independent Scotland in a YouGov poll.
With nearly two-thirds of their supporters approving of the First Minister, that may now be even higher.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Said it before but worth repeating again.
Scottish Labour does not exist.
It is another BritNat lie.
There is legally only the UK Labour Party Accounting Unit in Scotland.
“Scottish Labour is registered with the UK Electoral Commission as an Accounting Unit (AU) of the UK Labour Party and is therefore not a registered political party under the terms of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Labour
Remember this ‘Party’ want you to vote for them to instigate the Political Policies most conducive to a different country’s Government!
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Talk about mission impossible
The undesriable
In pursuit of the unattainable
In order to achieve mass suicide
Their minds are obsessively closed
And a closed mind is about as much use
as a parachute that will not open
Especially a parachute with Made in Westminster stamped upon it
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After the great disappointment of 2014, I thought we, in our constituency, could never overturn the sitting Labour M.P, who had a majority of over 16,000. Imagine my astonishment going around the doors of formerly solid Labour voting areas and discovering that they were now going to vote S.N.P. So not only did we win handsomely, but ever since then they have remained loyal, and hopefully will vote Yes come the next Independence Referendum.
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“Scottish Labour …. opposed to a second independence referendum” ….. Pope admits to being a Catholic … bears admit to defacating in woods ….
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The “Scottish” Labour party is a fiction.
Federalism does not exist in any Labour policy paper.
Ian Murray refers to REMOVING powers from Holyrood as part of “modern federalism”.
“Scottish” Labour fought tooth and nail to PREVENT further devolved powers to Holyrood under the Smith Commission.
Gordon Brown (alongside Wee Wullie) states no more powers should be devolved to Scotland.
How can “Scottish” Labour justify Northern Ireland having the right to self determination (Good Friday Agreement and Downing Street Declaration), but not Scotland?
In Northern Ireland Labour stand alongside the SDLP (an Irish nationalist party) but in Scotland they stand beside their British nationalist chums, the Scottish Tories
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Absent a conversion to a pro-referendum if not a pro-independence position, this is a sensible strategy for Labour to push and to do so and maintain from now. Arguably, it’s essential in order to retain a foothold in Holyrood after next year’s election.
Labour needs to burnish its Unionist credentials, either to compete successfully for the Unionist vote with the Tories and Lib Dems, or perhaps more likely to be seen as an acceptable home for the Unionist vote in constituencies where the Tories and Lib Dems field only passive, ‘paper’ candidates.
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The problem that all the unionist parties in Scotland now have is that the Westminster establishment has been shown to be dangerous for your health and in those circumstances,wealth takes a back seat.
They are trying every trick in the book to show that the Scottish government’s handling of this crisis is just as bad as England’s but few are buying that message.
I think the Better Together mantra has now gone forever in most Scots’ minds and people are really starting to believe that we can actually do Better Alone or at least Better without Westminster.
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If you believe in Dicky Leotards “federalism”, then my friend, I have a bridge to sell to you.
Don’t want a bridge?
No problemo! We could make it a tunnel—or a zip wire—or any damn thing you want it to be.
In fantasyland—ALL things are possible
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Scot Goes Pop / Panelbase poll, 1st-5th June 2020:
If Boris Johnson and the UK Government manage to block an independence referendum, do you think that pro-independence parties such as the SNP and the Greens should consider including an outright promise of independence in their manifestos for a future election, to give people an opportunity to vote for or against the idea?
“ Labour voters (Yes 45%, No 35%).!”
http://scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2020/06/scot-goes-pop-panelbase-poll-finds-that.html?m=1
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