Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.
Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.
When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.
Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.
Sinn Fein will not do Tory austerity.
The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.
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