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NEIL FINDLAY isn't sure Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey should have invoked 'progressive patriotism'
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LAST week Labour leadership hopeful Rebecca Long Bailey raised the issue of “progressive patriotism” as part of her pitch to the party members and affiliated supporters.
For some of us in Scotland this sent us into cold sweats with flashbacks to Jim Murphy’s tenure at the helm of the Scottish Labour Party.
Murphy, fresh from his Irn Bru crate tour of Scotland during the independence referendum, secured the leadership defeating Sarah Boyack and me in the process and soon thereafter delved into the new Labour recipe book to propose a new Clause IV for the Scottish party constitution, inserting the following phrase: “We work for the patriotic interest of the people of Scotland.”
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