Come on, Kezia

If anyone needed evidence of why Kezia Dugdale has taken Scottish Labour to the depths of 15 per cent in the polls, when they were at 45 per cent only three and a half years ago, this weekend’s Scottish Labour conference showed why.

Ms dug dale’ s words betrayed a leader out of her depth, fail- ing to even recognise why Scottish Labour have lost so many voters.

Her embrace of the Tory position on unionism is why Labour finds itself at a level of support unseen for more than 100 years. She is telling twothirds of former Labour voters who voted Yes that their views don’t matter.

How on earth does she expect to revive Labour in Scotland by appealing to a few hundred activists who hate the SNP, while hundreds of thousands of former Labour voters take the opposite view?

The issue, at its heart, is about whether Tories at Westminster, for whom Scotland has not voted in 60 years, should make decisions for Scotland.

Self-evidently Ms Dugdale and Scottish Labour now think lumbering Scotland with the Tories for decades is worth it just so long as it annoys “the Nats”.

Meanwhile her wingmen claim there is no mandate for an independence referendum, despite the clear fact the people of Scotland voted for a majority of MSPS who support one.

Like the Tories they act as if they can say anything and the people of Scotland will