LABOUR now has a top team ready for government, according to Yvette Cooper!

Is this the same Yvette Cooper who during the indyref1 campaign stated she was well placed to understand Scotland as she had been born in Inverness? The patronising comment cloyed then. Labour was in opposition then in England, and still is today, and was out of power in Holyrood. Labour had the majority of Scottish MPs in the Commons, but then declined exponentially thereafter and now has a mere one Scottish MP elected largely by Tory tactical voters!

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One must smile a little at her presumptuousness today, as in 2014. Ready for government? They have been out of power since 2011 after Gordon Brown’s disastrous premiership. Their debacle after 2014 in Scotland was due to Labour dancing with the Tories and Gordon Brown being taken for a ride by Cameron after his Vow. Brown has never recovered since EVEL and hardly shows his face. Not much of a grandee! In Scotland, Labour have more unelected representatives in the Lords than Scottish Labour MPs, a fact that they are in denial about. They never asks themselves why that is. Labour are hardly ready for anything, let alone government.

John Edgar
Kilmaurs