Follow on from previous post. But Kezia Dugdale nailed it today when it comes to the current electoral woes now faced by the Labour party, she described the Scottish Labour party as the canary in the mine warning to the rest of the party right now. And the Labour party down in Westminster should listen to her, even after the last two GE defeats the Labour still managed to return over 230 MPs to Westminster. But they would fail to do so right now if Theresa May called a GE tomorrow!
But where the Conservative party during the Blair years concentrated on shoring up its core vote to the detriment of reaching out to those floating centre ground voters. The irony is that despite what has happened already in Scotland, the current Labour party under Corbyn's leadership are not only fast becoming disconnected from their own core vote in the North of England, they also seem determined to even alienate and repell them as much wider UK electorate!
It is no accident that the once toxic Scottish Converatives have now replaced the Labour party rather than the Libdems to become the main Opposition in Scotland in a post Indy Ref era. Just as its now the Conservative party and not UKIP that is winning safe Labour Seats in a post Brexit era in the wider UK. Don't knock it, but George Osborne was one step ahead of us all again with his Northern PowerHouse strategy, a strategy that he continues to support strongly from the backbenches. So this makes his sacking by Theresa May still one of her biggest mistakes in the early days of her Leadership. Lets just remember why David Cameron needed to put IDS back into his Shadow Cabinet and then Government after he created the Centre for Social Justice.
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But Kezia Dugdale nailed it today when it comes to the current electoral woes now faced by the Labour party, she described the Scottish Labour party as the canary in the mine warning to the rest of the party right now. And the Labour party down in Westminster should listen to her, even after the last two GE defeats the Labour still managed to return over 230 MPs to Westminster. But they would fail to do so right now if Theresa May called a GE tomorrow!
But where the Conservative party during the Blair years concentrated on shoring up its core vote to the detriment of reaching out to those floating centre ground voters. The irony is that despite what has happened already in Scotland, the current Labour party under Corbyn's leadership are not only fast becoming disconnected from their own core vote in the North of England, they also seem determined to even alienate and repell them as much wider UK electorate!
It is no accident that the once toxic Scottish Converatives have now replaced the Labour party rather than the Libdems to become the main Opposition in Scotland in a post Indy Ref era. Just as its now the Conservative party and not UKIP that is winning safe Labour Seats in a post Brexit era in the wider UK. Don't knock it, but George Osborne was one step ahead of us all again with his Northern PowerHouse strategy, a strategy that he continues to support strongly from the backbenches. So this makes his sacking by Theresa May still one of her biggest mistakes in the early days of her Leadership. Lets just remember why David Cameron needed to put IDS back into his Shadow Cabinet and then Government after he created the Centre for Social Justice.