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[beccatoria]

Wow, so VidUKon happened (HI EVERYONE!) and then I was like, wow, I can take a week off, sleep, chill and then get on with my fabulous life of leisure. Except then I got some more freelance work and an offer to temporarily go full-time at my regular job in a different department and Kev started reducing his medication which meant he was in a kinda

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[gonzo21]

Labour are going to lose the next election anyway. And every election going forward because the Tories have rigged the game and without Scotland the Labour party are fucked.

Unless round two of the banking collapse happens in the next 5 years and the Tories get blamed for that fuck up.

So given Labour are gonna lose the next election anyway, I figure, they might as well stand for something worth standing for and lose with a crack of thunder and passion, rather than be watered down tory-lite and lose with a pathetic little whimper of 'but we're nicer than the tories!'

[beccatoria]

Yup, pretty much. And out of all of them, Corbyn probably has the best chance of making any gains in Scotland too.

[gonzo21]

They certainly want to stop agreeing with everything the Tories do if they ever want to turn things around up North, that's for sure.

To be honest I think Labour might be permanently broken in Scotland though. Which means they will struggle to ever win a majority in Westminster again.

[beccatoria]

Yeah. :(

Although Corbyn might also be far more open to an electoral pact or official confidence and supply arrangement. While the papers would have a field day with that again, I do wonder how it'd work if they just refused to be embarrassed by it. Kind of like Corbyn refusing to be embarrassed by his socialist political positions. To an extent it'll be a liability, but to an extent, I think it'll be harder to make it stick than with, say, Miliband, who was constantly trying to convince people he was a centrist.

And the SNP would still be in the same position as before: they wouldn't be able to demand that much because they cannot be seen, politically, to bring down a left-wing government. Even more so in the case of Corbyn. Although for balance, Corbyn may not be as inclined to play hardball with them.

Buuuut, eh, we'll see. I'm still refusing to believe Corbyn winning is an actual likely outcome out of self-defense and bitter skepticism...