Across the pond: Labour trounces SNP in key election

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

I wonder if Scottish nationalism has peaked. Sturgeon may have destroyed the party.

If Labour can be resurgent in Scotland, it should make returning to power all that much easier.

Labour beats SNP in Rutherglen and Hamilton West byelection

Michael Shanks takes victory in contest that Labour considered a crucial test of apparent turnaround of its fortunes in Scotland

www.theguardian.com

 

[TomEric4756]

Yes politics in Scotland, the birthplace of Adam Smith, multiple industrial entrepreneurs, who gave us Carnegie, seem to bely their deep free market roots.

My recollection is that many Scots wanted to stay in the EU.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Yes politics in Scotland, the birthplace of Adam Smith, multiple industrial entrepreneurs, who gave us Carnegie, seem to bely their deep free market roots.

My recollection is that many Scots wanted to stay in the EU.

They voted remain pretty strongly, yes.