Last week Kezia Dugdale, the leader of the Scottish Labour party, ventured south to the Imperial capital to brief the shadow cabinet on her party’s prospects in the forthcoming elections to the Scottish Parliament. Lucky her.
According to the New Statesman’s George Eaton, Dugdale’s presentation was greeted with great enthusiasm. It was, one member of the shadow cabinet declared, ‘brilliant’ while another said Dugdale had ‘blown away’ her South British colleagues. Ominously, Eaton reported that ‘After loudly applauding her, frontbenchers left vowing to do more to help their colleagues north of the border (at least one shadow cabinet minister will visit each week)’.
To which the only sensible response is, Jeez, hasn’t Kezia suffered enough already? The very last thing she needs is Andy Burnham popping over the border. To say nothing of the members of the shadow cabinet of whom no-one has ever heard.
What is the point of the Scottish Labour party? That is the question Dugdale must answer.
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