The Labour party are back in Government in Westminster and with a share of the vote in Scotland up nearly 20 per cent.

The SNP may pretend they don’t mind having Labour as the government of the UK but they know it is really the beginning of the end. The Tory pantomime villains have gone, the new UK Government has policies are much closer to the views of most Scots than those of the Conservatives ever were.

The tired incompetence of the SNP government in Scotland is there for all to see and their continued obsession with constitutional change no longer chimes with those they have let down for so long.

Labour could kill the desire for independence, says Guy (Image: Stewart Attwood)

The SNP thought Scotland leaving the UK was inevitable because younger people were more in favour of it and as the stupid oldies died off the advantage would shift in favour of nationalism. Sadly for them that has not proved to be the case, as the young have got older they have changed their minds. The SNP’s inevitable destination has proved to be far from inevitable.

The UK Labour Government must not make the same mistake as the SNP made and take victory for granted. Just when it seems like they don’t have to do much and the SNP will go away they........

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