This is a worrying development. Who in Labour is seeing them tanking in polls and thinking it's because they just haven't done enough right-wing rhetoric?
My favourite Anas memory from my time as a ScotLab member was in June or July 2011, when he spoke to several SLS folks at Strathclyde Uni Union and told us that the worst was behind us because the pendulum would swing back.
There's a particular lack of both knowledge and acumen there...
Sarwar is definitely right on the record of the SNP in government, but Scottish Labour have simply never managed to make that a dominant electoral framing.
"You know what Labour swing voters want? Unqualified 19-year-olds with everyone's NI numbers raking through their personal finances and the Scottish Government's social security system"
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There's a particular lack of both knowledge and acumen there...
Yeah, what if they have a deep-seated distrust of your party and surface-level dislike of you, personally?