🤨 An unambiguously British nationalist image from the party political broadcast for Scottish Labour. 
This comes from a place of attempting to emulate the Tories as much as possible in the hope that Brexit backing seats in the North of England will return to Labour.
It’s a curious choice to broadcast this type of imagery in Scotland when sections of Scottish Labour’s support are pro-independence, 20 polls in a row show majority support for Scottish independence, and the obvious political connotations the flag has in parts of Scotland.
And if anything, the hyper sensitive response to this fairly innocuous observation of a Scottish Labour Party political broadcast imagery demonstrates that the “you can’t eat a flag” pro-EU Labour that we saw in 2014 #IndyRef has been thrown under a Brexit bus.
And that’s why this imagery is quite a dramatic departure for a party political broadcast from Scottish Labour in Scotland.
But when you understand that Labour are fixated on Brexit backing seats in the North of England it all makes sense.
But when you understand that Labour are fixated on Brexit backing seats in the North of England it all makes sense.
🔮 Well, would you look at that. A leaked strategy document from Labour has suggested that they should "make use of the [union] flag" to help win back Brexit backing Tory seats in the north of England.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
Labour voices online have been quite animated (and abusive) towards me after my observations about their latest party political broadcast, but it would appear that Labour staffers have also raised their eyebrows in response to their departure towards British nationalist imagery.
As we've seen in the USA, the answer to the rise in far right populism is not to wear their clothes. British exceptionalism often means that those in the UK that shriek in horror at events elsewhere are blind to the rise of the far right on their doorstep. See Brexit.
It was the Labour politician Tony Benn that talked about dividing politicians into two categories: the Signposts and the Weathercocks. And it's now clear as day as to what the current Labour party, and it's Scottish branch, have become.
If UK politics has become a battle over who gets to wear the clothes of far right populists, everyone loses, including Scotland.
And that’s why Scotland’s future is best placed in Scotland’s hands. We can chart our own course and be a positive progressive beacon for rUK.
And that’s why Scotland’s future is best placed in Scotland’s hands. We can chart our own course and be a positive progressive beacon for rUK.
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