Try searching for Conservatives voting Labour and Google also scoffs at the very notion before offering you numerous reports of tactical voting by Labour and Lib Dem supporters to try to keep Cons out but not one where Cons voted tactically. While Cons might vote Lib Dem to keep Labour out, they would never vote Labour to keep Lib Dems out. Cons define themselves less by what they believe in that by what they despise – the rest of us but especially Labour.
In Scotland, deluded Unionist Labour supporters do seem to have voted Con to try to defeat the SNP but not in enough numbers to succeed. I doubt many would ever reciprocate. They’d choke on the idea.
So, in Scotland, Labour Unionists will desert the Cons and return to Labour and, in so doing, simply create a gap through which the SNP, with disaffected leftist Labour supporters dismayed by Starmer, charge to victory in this FPTP system.
Betcha.
Update from Anonymous:
I am not so sure about things in Scotland. I doubt if there are enough Labour voters in Morningside to give Ian Murray his huge majority and, probably, Jackie Baillie’s pro nuke stance probably gets votes in West Dunbartonshire. During the referendum a ScotLab luminary said he would vote Tory before independence. However, I think a fair number of Labour voters abstain.
Murray and Baillie? OK. Agreed but exceptions to prove the rule?
Talking-up Scotland 
I am not so sure about things in Scotland. I doubt if there are enough Labour voters in Morningside to give Ian Murray his huge majority and, probably, Jackie Baillie’s pro nuke stance probably gets votes in West Dunbartonshire. During the referendum a ScotLab luminary said he would vote Tory before independence. However, I think a fair number of Labour voters abstain.
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OK, I’ll give you those two.
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This is like a rerun of the The People’s Front of Judea… Innit Reg ?
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I suspect in Scotland the expected differences between party policies were cast in sharp relief by Murray’s election as Labour’s last “stand in”, and I frankly doubt he’ll get away with it again – Morningside will dump him as the grifter he is and he’ll transition to prospective Labour List MSP on the Labour roster with a side job as QA tester job at a pie factory somewhere, much as Bowie will do similar with a consultancy to advise fellow plonkers with ambitions and military connection equally dumped as inadequate on how to screw the political system to their personal advantage…
Labour have not offered any real “difference” in Scotland’s since the late 2000’s when they were unceremoniously dumped by a majority of Scots at the ballot box because they were serving only Westminster.
Scotland’s Labour stubbornly refuse to acknowledge their own failures of late on Scotland past and present or promote remedy, pretty much sums up their dilemma
Much as the Tories did for decades and still do, it’s always somebody else’s fault, lately it’s been those dastardly French. Merde .
Scotland’s electorate learned to be more politically astute than much of England from 2014 on, yet even parts of England have woken up to the politics of old and it’s malicious “Punch & Judy” media no longer gelling with THEIR reality.
The “game” which kept Murray, Tsunami Baillie, Jack Schitt, able Seaman SmirkyMcSmirk, Sarwar, desk thumping Stephen Kerr, etc in place under “time honoured rules” are truly over.
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OK, I’ll give you those two.
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Headlines from now on should be
“Scottish Tory leader and party say next general election is a defacto election on Scottish Independence”
DRoss, Scottish Tory leader is “instructing” all Scottish Tories, Labour and Lib Dems to treat the next General election as an independent for Scotland one and to vote as such. ….
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independence for Scotland one.
Sorry typo.
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BBC Scotland really going on this and 15 backbench rebels going to give the FM a hard time blocking some of his program,
DRoss,Sarwar,Kerr and the rest a real shower who don’t want Scotland to do well.
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’15 backbench rebels going to give the FM a hard time’
Well it would be shame if SNP government ministers missed out on such an experience!
Have Tories minister not ‘enjoyed’ the benefit of the European Research Group over more than a decade? And have Labour leaders and/or ministers not at various times had their own rebellious groups – Momentum, Militant Tendency and, over a prolonged period, its own Eurosceptic group?
Whose going to be first – BBC Scotland, Herald, Scotsman, Record, Daily Mail, Sun, Telegraph, Express, Spectator, Courier, P&J ANOther – to give us a memorable name for the rebellious group? Must have a shorthand term for maximum, lasting effect on the public. It’s a big field in competition!
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Tories on 9%. Labour 20% Not likely.
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Murray gets the English residents vote. Bailie gets the naval workforce vote. Simple solution; no representation without taxation. Only holders of a Scottish tax reference number can vote!
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