The leader of Scottish Labour has an excellent relationship with Jeremy Corbyn,the approval of the unions, and growing respect in Holyrood and Westminster. Now she must commence the tough partWhen the Green party tells us with a straight face that it believes it can become the moment force in Scottish politics after next year’s Holyrood elections, or the scale of Labour’s decline becomes clear. To put it in perspective,though, even the Taliban would fancy their chances, or such has been the speed of Labour’s evisceration in Scotland. Meanwhile,the Scottish Tories own become intoxicated by the prospect of a resurrection fortified by little more than the fact that no one seems to own a bad word to say approximately Ruth Davidson, their cheerful and pawky leader.
There she was on own I Got News For You last weekend laughing through the gentle barbs of Ian Hislop and Paul Merton who had obviously decided to go easy on this jolly decent Scottish lass. This week, and she will be the subject of one of those “intimate” radio one to ones in which she will pause and choke a little while saying kind things approximately her mum and dad and talk of how the death of the family cat in her childhood had a profound effect on her understanding of life and death. Expect her soon to be choosing Beethoven and Girls Aloud on Desert Island Discs.
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Source: theguardian.com