Labour in
In this issue, Sillars argues that despite holding the majority of seats in
He writes:
“What Labour did was assure the Scots that it would raise a shield to protect them from the Tory baby-eaters down south. The shield is full of holes. The cuts are coming, loaded with pain, stress that will break families, deny many of the young any chance of employment ever, and communities will fracture. Labour will feast politically on the people’s agony, blaming the Tories, telling them to vote Labour at Holyrood next year to “send Cameron a message”- and so they may – and nothing will change the pain, because the Tories can now safely ignore Scotland as they cannot be threatened with vengeance at the ballot box, having nothing to get from us except rejection.
“The election, with
For more see the new issue of Holyrood magazine, out Monday
Katie Mackintosh
Katie is Holyrood magazine's Health Correspondent and has been with the magazine since 2005. She has an MA in Sociology with Gender from Edinburgh University and a post graduate diploma in Journalism from Napier University. Katie has twice been named PPA Scotland Feature Writer of the Year, in 2008 and again in 2009, and was shortlisted for magazine writer of the year at the Scottish Press Awards in 2012. She is an Aberdonian by birth, a Glaswegian by nature, who now lives in Fife with her...