itemprop=description content=THERE’S only really one story in town today in Scottish politics: Labour's not entirely unexpected win in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by…
and a good one for Labour, but some of the excited coverage of the story in the British media is frankly risible.
The by-election was won by the Lib Dem candidate Diana Maddock who took the seat with a 34.5% swing from the Conservatives. This was largely due to the fact that Conservative supporters largely did not bother to turn out to vote and Labour supporters voted tactically for the Lib Dem candidate.Although it should be noted that voter turnout in this by election was still 74.2% - almost double that recorded in yesterday's by election in Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
The Labour vote was boosted by significant tactical voting from the constituency's not insignificant number of Conservative voters, many of whom are of a distinctly orange persuasion. It's a sign of how far to the right the Labour Party has moved that they feel so comfortable voting Labour. The Conservative vote collapsed and the Tory candidate Thomas Kerr lost his deposit.It is unarguable that the SNP failed to motivate independence supporters to turn out and vote for the party.
However, the main factor in the SNP's failure to inspire the pro-independence vote to come out and support it must surely be a lack of any public clarity about how independence or a referendum can be achieved in the face of the absolute intransigence of the Labour and Conservative parties to recognise the will of the Scottish public as expressed through the ballot box - except that is when it is a result to the liking of the parties of"we're not nationalist, we're British.
Formulating an independence strategy which can enthuse and motivate a pro-independence support base which remains undiminished will be the key task for the SNP over the weeks and months ahead.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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