Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Scrooge lesson for Boris Johnson
KEITH FLETT believes Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol has a pertinent message for the Tories of 2019
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DURING one of the few TV election debates Boris Johnson did manage to appear in, Jeremy Corbyn said that he would give Johnson a copy of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol as a Christmas present.
Needless to say this got the Daily Telegraph going. Melanie McDonagh opined that there was nothing socialist about Dickens or about the book in particular.
She was certainly right about that but as several comments underlined she had failed to grasp the point that Dickens, and indeed Corbyn, was actually making.
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