It's a new year

Scottish Labour looks on the optimistic side.  The Guardian reports:

Young people now see Labour as the radicals in Scotland, according to the party’s new leader, Richard Leonard.

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Scottish Labour activists reported a significant change on the doorstep during their general election campaigning, in particular among younger voters who they might formerly have expected to be supporting the SNP. “Over the past few months we’ve started to win back lost Labour voters, people who voted SNP, Green in recent elections, there’s a definite shift taking place. There’s a buzz amongst young people. They are seeing the Labour party as the radical party.”

It would be nice to think so.  But I fear that it will not be so easy to dispel its reputation for promoting jumped-up, hidebound, municipal time-servers with an extremely limited capacity for radical thought.  But we can always hope ...