A LABOUR MP attacked the SNP over Brexit in the Commons today – and he seemed to forget who his party leader was in the process.
A new poll by Kantar has Labour polling at 31% at Westminster – 10% behind the Tories.
So, they need all the votes they can get in Scotland ... and yet, a Survation poll published today predicts that Labour will be left with only one seat north of the Border after the next Westminster election.
Enter Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins, who decided to illustrate perfectly just how out-of-touch his party is with Scotland's political landscape, and why their vote is spiralling down.
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As SNP MP Joanna Cherry deftly explained the issues with Theresa May's Brexit proposals, he decided to intervene.
The Labour MP said: “There’s much that she’s saying about this deal that I’d agree with, but I think she slightly overeggs the point when it comes to the issue of Scotland and what Scotland wanted.
“Because she said that 62% of Scottish people voted against it. In fact, that’s not true. The turnout in Scotland was lower than any English region – only 41% of people voting in Scotland voted to remain, and that was largely because the SNP made so little effort to actually get people to go and vote.”
(We assume he meant 41% of eligible Scottish voters.)
It prompted uproar from the SNP benches.
Cherry hit back: “I’m not going to waste what little time I have in dignifying that intervention, other than to say simply it shows the great ignorance of many members of the Labour Party about the situation in Scotland, and the reason why Labour are nosediving into third position in Scotland having once been in the lead.”
Had Perkins forgotten who his party leader was? For someone under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership to accuse other parties of not doing enough to bring out the Remain vote takes quite the brass neck.
Cherry was fighting to stress why the Prime Minister's proposals are such an insult to Scotland's democratic will.
Did the Labour MP care about that? Did he care about the way Remain-voting Scotland's desire was being ignored, and Scotland's voice ignored in the Brexit process?
No. Instead, he saw fit to attack the SNP because his own leader didn't get out enough of the Remain vote.
It speaks volumes about where their priorities lie.
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