Scottish Labour

#SluggerDaily Report: Two wee dugs called the SNP and Scottish Labour…

Mick Fealty on April 20, 2015, 1:56 pm

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listen to ‘#SluggerReport Daily – Scotland's Biggest Winners and Losers…’ on audioBoom This morning’s #SluggerReport Daily on Scotland, keep an ear out for my two wee dug’s theory towards the end… iPhone users can hear the ‪#‎SluggerReport‬ LIVE every weekday at 10am only on the Periscope app. This is a ‘redux’ version which you can also find on Slugger’s new Audioboom channel: http://buff.ly/1F19vVv. Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet …

How solid is the SNP polling rise and [what] does it mean for a future minority Labour government?

Mick Fealty on April 20, 2015, 7:41 am

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Polls are polls, ie just snapshots in time. If they indicate anything reliable it’s in the trends they show over time. So over time Ashcroft’s latest marginal in Jim Murphy’s East Renfrewshire indicates the Scottish Labour leader may be inching towards political destruction: Jim Murphy in trouble according to the latest Ashcroft poll. pic.twitter.com/Z0QxeNMME6 — Britain Elects (@britainelects) April 17, 2015 If we take the polling at face value then Labour appears to be facing its own 1997 in Scotland, with …

“Can Scottish Labour, under Murphy, learn to think big?”

Mick Fealty on December 15, 2014, 11:25 am

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So Jim Murphy, a machine politician from his very earliest days in the NUS, takes over the helm at Scottish Labour. He has an unenviable task ahead of him. The Yes campaign may have won the #IndyRef battle but the unionist parties now show every sign of terminal weakness in their war for the future of the Union. Of all the popular and rising parties on these island, the SNP has the highest base polling figure. Salmond has skillfully combined opportunism and populism …

Johann Lamont: a necessary defenestration

Brian Walker on October 25, 2014, 10:49 am

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Poor Johann Lamont, the leader of Scottish Labour leader who was always out of her depth and no time more so than during the referendum campaign when the Tory leader Ruth Davidson clearly outshone her. The BBC headline writer’s verdict is cruel but accurate: Johann Lamont resignation: A leader without influence The post referendum message couldn’t be clearer. A Panelbase poll on 2 October showed: SNP: 34%, Labour: 32%, Conservative: 18%, Liberal Democrat: 5%, UKIP: 6%, Other: 5%. From the …