NOW that Keir Starmer has, disgracefully, accepted Brexit as a done deal, Anas Sarwar is up the Kelvin without a paddle.
Labour’s chances of winning a General Election without a decent number of Scottish MPs are minimal (always have been) and in any case the Tories will turf them out sooner rather than later. The SNP are not going to lose their powerful appeal for voters anytime soon. Labour, therefore, have an excellent chance of forming a Scottish Government in, say, a couple of years after Independence Day – the Scots being naturally left-leaning, social-democratic inclined – but only if they vote Yes in a referendum.
England must find its own way to evict the Tories – admittedly a tough task, that country having turned rather unpleasantly Conservative (it’s Brexit and immigration wot done it) – but those determined to fight for decency in public life and fairness for the underprivileged will surely take comfort from having a friend over the Border. That, by the way, will be very light-touch, even when we rejoin Europe as one of its oldest nation states.
David Roche
Blairgowrie
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