For the truth is that, in continuing to support the Union so unquestioningly, Jim Murphy sends out a political dog-whistle not to traditional working-class voters in Scotland’s Labour heartlands but to all the conservative forces in Scotland and the UK who yearn for a Scottish unionist leader forceful enough to push the SNP back to the margins of politics, where they think it belongs. It’s for this reason that the satirical website the Daily Mash hit the nail so resoundingly on the head this week, when it joked that Jim Murphy had just become the leader of both Labour and the Conservatives in Scotland. And it’s this contradiction – between the language of radical social democracy he speaks, and the profound establishment conservatism of the unionist cause he represents – that may finally scupper Jim Murphy’s chances of emerging as the dominant force in Scottish politics
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:00:53 +0000
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