Scottish Labour Overruled



The Scottish Labour leader, Johan Lamont, loses the plot in this interview on the Daily Politics programme with Andrew Neil, if you ask me.

After a bright start, Johann stumbles over questions about Ed Miliband's leadership before falling apart altogether on the question of extra powers for the Scottish Parliament, as the exchange with Andrew Neil which confirms that Ed Balls and the UK Labour Party overruled Scottish Labour's proposals for full devolution of income tax powers to Holyrood.

 Next thing you know, Alex Massie (another journalist) makes mincemeat of Labour's devolution proposals before Johann gets into an unseemly defensive argument with another journalist, Lesley Riddoch, over whether the political culture of Scotland is distinctly different.

 Which it clearly is because that is the only reason we are having a referendum on Scottish independence on 18 September 2014.      

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