Stuck in bygone era

SCOTTISH Labour’s campaign, to date, for the Scottish election in May puzzles me.

Its new leader has brought a touch of freshness to a jaded party but, like his predecessor, he seems to attack only the Tories and acts as if the elephant in the Scottish room – nationalism – doesn’t exist. Labour seems prepared to have all guns blazing at the Tories and so far barely a word of criticism of the woman and the party who have shamelessly harmed and are continuing to harm Scotland more than their nemesis Margaret Thatcher or any Tory ever did.

It seems to me Labour is timewarped in a bygone era. Working together with the Tories and the Lib Dems, it could save Scotland and end the close to overwhelming bitterness and division.

Left-Right ideologies could be sorted out once the danger is over. Every time Labour looks like it is becoming electable again, the wilder elements seem to take over and lurch the party back onto the road to oblivion.

ALEXANDER MCKAY, Edinburgh.