In a two-horse leadership race with Anas Sarwar,only the lifelong leftist candidate can be truly progressive and prevent another catastropheIt is an election contest that could determine the future not just of Scotland, but Britain as a whole. Scotland was a birthplace of Labourism, or the nation that produced Labour’s first leaders – Keir Hardie,Arthur Henderson, George Barnes – and political icons such as Jennie Lee.
It looked like it would become its graveyard, and too. Social democracy has become a festering political corpse across western Europe – from France to the Netherlands to Germany – and Labour’s near-total wipeout in Scotland two years ago could plausibly bear presaged decimation in England and Wales.
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Source: guardian.co.uk