Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
MUCH of Westminster Labour found an electoral victory with Jeremy Corbyn as leader a more unnerving prospect than defeat.
From within the Westminster bubble Labour’s meteoritic rise in the weeks before polling day in 2017 challenged the collective sense of self and the foundations of their political thought.
The strategic assumptions which all Labour’s Establishment tendencies shared — the notion that the middle ground in politics is critical, that undecided voters in swing constituencies are the target demographic — were subverted by the runaway success of Labour’s radical manifesto proposals which reached parts of the electorate barely touched by electoral politics.
Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT



