Who’s Being Partisan?
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The BBC has a comprehensive round up of quotes from various politicians and political commentators where is it obvious who’s being partisan. However, one stands out from the rest as it is from an unbiased academic with no axe to grind.
JOHN CURTICE, STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY POLITICS PROFESSOR
The real problem is Wendy Alexander’s leadership more broadly was not much of a success.
Her performances in First Minister’s Questions against the First Minister Alex Salmond were widely criticised for being rather weak.
Secondly, her attempt to push the Labour Party where it is in a position where it said it wanted a referendum on independence and it wanted a referendum quickly, contradicting Gordon Brown’s position, that undoubtedly weakened her position.
Thirdly, in truth the lesson of this story is that Wendy Alexander actually mismanaged dealing with the problem of her leadership finance campaign once the story first emerged.
But my favourite comment so far was from fidothedog in response to my earlier Tribute to Wee Wendy blog post:
There is a point that without Labour to mock, the flaws of the SNP will be exposed. Although they have some, I am sure that it would take some serious fuckwittery to get to the level of Wendy & co in New Labour.
I just love the way that she gets caught, lies, gets exposed, then go’s on the attack, gets shown up for lying again, hauled up before the committee and then leaves.
Oh and whilst leaving denies all wrongdoing, blames everyone else and acts like a spoiled twat.
Still I see a book deal or somesuch aka Levy, puker Prescott, Pasha Blair etc etc.
Wendy Alexander needs to ask herself who placed the first dagger in her back. Who was involved in the initial leak about the dodgy donations? Could it perhaps be a New Labour insider? Perhaps not everyone in New Labour thought she was leadership material.
Let’s give the last word, for the time being, to Nicola Sturgeon, Deputy First Minister:
It’s not partisan, it’s not party political, it’s simply a decision taken based on that independent report.
“But clearly this event does signal the deep disintegration now happening to Labour north and south of the border. The key point is that they are disintegrating from within.
So Wendy, perhaps the deepest stab wounds were done with a New Labour partisan dagger “before thee”.
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