Labour’s Scottish election campaign is a disaster
by Calum WrightScottish Labour’s campaign has been uninspiring, ill-conceived and unsuccessful. A lead in the opinion polls has been squandered and it seems increasingly likely that the SNP will be...
View ArticleFive questions for general election week 2015
by Jonathan ToddI can barely remember before we were looking beyond 7 May 2015 and soon this fateful date will be pasted. Five questions for this precipice:Will a “Sheffield rally moment” happen?George...
View ArticleNationalist thugs in Scotland will boost Scottish Labour’s vote
by Atul HatwalToday, Jim Murphy showed why he is a strong leader. Unlike either David Cameron or Ed Miliband, he took his campaign to the streets to meet ordinary voters. It was the type of bold, smart...
View ArticleFive dangers for Labour as the finish line approaches
by Rob MarchantAnd so the election goes down to the wire.A shaky start for Labour; then two very good weeks; and now a late push by the Tories takes us to the photo finish. The Tories look better for...
View ArticleIf Labour has a path to power tomorrow, it must only take it if a stable...
by Atul HatwalThe worst day in government is better than the best in opposition, or so the aphorism goes.It’s true.As Aussie cricketers (who know a thing or two about winning) say, you’ve got to back...
View ArticleHow Labour lost the centre ground and how to win it back
by Samuel DaleA debate is about to begin in the Labour party about how we recover from Thursday’s crushing election defeat.The Miliband experiment has failed. Do we move to the left to retake Scotland?...
View ArticleLet’s face it – Thursday night was painful
by Joe AndersonIn the last few weeks we have seen some of the strengths of our movement. Hundreds of activists in every seat across the country – full of the energy and passion of our people fighting...
View ArticleReasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3…
by Kevin MeagherOf course, it would be pretty difficult to pen a piece entitled: ’10 reasons it’s not as bad as it seems for Labour,’ but as the dust settles on last Thursday’s calamitous result, there...
View ArticleIf Jeremy Corbyn wants to do some lasting good, he should take a leaf out of...
by Samuel DaleLabour Uncut editor Atul Hatwal recently wrote an excellent blog about how Trump has shifted the Overton window of US politics with his plan to ban Muslims from entering the US.First came...
View ArticleThe Tories are within 4 points of Scottish Labour. What a time to try to...
by Rob MarchantUncut has not spoken much about Scotland recently but, as the gaze of Britain’s political machine turns briefly northwards, as it does every four years, that will change.It is right that...
View ArticleWhy aren’t we furious with the Scottish party?
by Kevin MeagherThe dark, stinking hole Labour finds itself in these days might not feel quite so dark and stinking if the Scottish party had got its act together last year. The loss of forty seats...
View ArticleIt’s unfashionable to say this but the Remain campaign is doing a bloody good...
In a three part series Atul Hatwal looks at the state of the two EU referendum campaigns and the likely winners and losers from the vote. First up, the Remain campaign.At the start of the year, the...
View ArticleLabour’s options? Different degrees of losing
by Rob Marchant It was always going to be important to wait until the dust settled around Labour’s second leadership election to see what was going to happen next. Now, settled it has and things are a...
View ArticleNicola Sturgeon has gambled with her move for independence. It’s not such a...
by Atul Hatwal There are three stages to processing the news that we seem to be heading for a sequel to the Scottish independence referendum. Stage one: why the shock. What is surprising about a...
View ArticleLabour’s pro-Brexit front bench is more of a problem than Corbyn
by Trevor Fisher For any blog site commenting on current developments, the latest headlines define the agenda. The opening days of April provided many, but if the Livingstone saga is ignored as driven...
View ArticleNew poll analysis: Watson, Skinner and Flint facing defeat. Cooper, Miliband,...
by Atul Hatwal Labour is facing a parliamentary wipeout on June 8th. The defeat will be greater than 1983 with the leading figures such as Tom Watson, Dennis Skinner and Caroline Flint facing defeat...
View ArticleLabour must beware the Tories’‘Miliband minority’ attack line – it worked...
By David Talbot The country has become rather used to going to the polls. Three times in four years, no less. The hattrick of recent elections ushered in a Conservative majority for the first time in...
View ArticleJack Lesgrin’s week: Johnson won’t have broken any rules of conduct because...
by Jack Lesgrin Johnson won’t have broken any rules of conduct because there aren’t any. That’s life without a written constitution I wrote last August that nothing matters as regards the...
View ArticleThe coming implosion of the SNP sees Starmer and Sarwar finally inching...
by Rob Marchant As the SNP ship is seen to drift, perhaps inexorably, towards a disastrous new era with Humza Yousaf currently its most likely captain, we have to ask ourselves how they ended up here....
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