WHATEVER the forces being applied through agony uncle to rehabilitate Kezia Dugdale, she should have no place in the independence movement.
As a No voter last time who is eager to vote for independence in indyref2, I recognise the value of prominent figures switching to the independence cause. However, isn’t this just a case too far?
Politicians are expected to have honesty, openness, and earn the trust of those who vote. Hasn’t Dugdale failed spectacularly on all of these counts?
Whatever the truth of her personal life in the last 15 months, logic alone leads me to not believe a word of the version she spun.
She entered into a relationship with an opposition party member who had a position in the education department, which she hid during a General Election while railing against that party’s record in government, on education and in general.
During the General Election, despite the fact that it was not relevant to electing Westminster MPs, Dugdale vociferously trumpeted her complete opposition to another independence referendum, which by all accounts had the effect of returning both Labour and Tory Unionist MPs who have helped to prop up the most shambolic Tory government in Britain’s recent history.
I fear that our agony uncle has got it wrong here. Dugdale’s conversion to the independence cause would be seen as an extraordinary “Damascene” moment designed to mask political integrity in order to rehabilitate a spectacularly failed political career.
Dugdale got it wrong. She backed the wrong horse in Labour’s surge. Her party has sidelined her. She’s yesterday’s politician. Politically toxic, who could possibly trust her, or any party she switched to?
And who could trust the integrity of a referendum campaign with Dugdale’s dubious support for independence?
Jim Taylor
Edinburgh
BEFORE she was lured into a gang called the SLP, Kez was a bright, happy, well-intentioned girl. She even got to be their leader for a while.
But, surrounded by uninspiring mates who perpetually argued among themselves and lacked any real purpose, she became disillusioned and unhappy.
Kez desperately needs new friends who can give her sympathy and understanding, as well as respite care away from carping comrades.
If you have been affected by Kez’s plight and would like to help, please send donations to I’m in the Labour Party – Get me out of here! at the address below.
(Cheques should be made payable to “Cayman Island Rehabilitations Inc.”)
James Stevenson
Auchterarder
NEIL Findlay appears to be so intent on getting revenge on Kezia Dugdale that he can’t see the irony in the situation (Angry Findlay says Dugdale’s jungle jaunt demeans politics, The National, November 20).
Given the choice of staying in Scotland, watching the aftermath of the Scottish Labour Party’s bloodbath leadership election or joining I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! and facing weeks of squabbling with competitors, living rough, eating unspeakable objects and subjecting herself to various ordeals, she chose the latter.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
GREAT news on Monday’s front page. The Chancellor affirms that there are no unemployed in this shambles of a Union.
Tomorrow will there be no children in poverty, a fully functioning NHS, free from privatisation fears, and the surety that austerity has worked?
The rich get richer and the poor are now all employed.
Theresa is indeed heading up a strong and stable conglomerate of wise people, all from the planet Zog.
Kezia is in the jungle, Anas is in the wilderness, and the new office manager on his first shift has managed to save a big factory, and the jobs of the workers in Fife.
Electric, no-driver cars, a new Trident and Ruth as politician of the decade.
What next?
John Keast
Kilmarnock
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