I WAS fascinated on Friday to hear Laura Kuenssberg on Good Morning Scotland explaining why the Labour Party had declined so drastically, and what Sir Keir Starmer must tell them to do on his visits to Scotland to revive their fortunes.

She explained very clearly, as she saw it, that the party had lost the trust of its voters because of its concentration on the constitutional question and opined that instead, they must start criticising the actions of the SNP government and pointing out their failings.

Does anyone else think she got this the wrong way round? To me, it seems that they have steadfastly refused to engage constructively with the independence question, but have incessantly nit-picked and looked for anything they could label “SNP bad”, even if it is something they have previously vociferously supported in other circumstances. It is not a matter of lost trust, but rather of refusing to listen to their members who have left in droves and their voters, deserting in hordes, to support independence through other means.

Perhaps if they listened to these folk and raised their eyes to the potential prize within an independent Scotland, they would realise that there could be a bright future for a truly Scottish Labour party, whereas there is not a snowball in the warm nether regions chance of anything but a Tory government at Westminster for the next eight to 10 years at least. Scottish Labour will never be part of a Westminster government, as long as the majority in England vote Tory.

All that Laura Kuenssberg did, unfortunately, was highlight exactly how misguided and out of touch the London view is of Scotland.
L McGregor
Falkirk