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Starmer has effectively "sealed Labour's fate in Scotland" although it was blootered years ago for good reason!!
Re the the British Labour Party, it has been in existence for 122 years. Since it's inception, it has for example been proposing HoL abolition, but has tellingly never gotten around to it in the total of 33 years of Labour governance spanning certain periods from 1924 to 2010. At the same time, one must point out Labour has remained committed to an all-powerful political centre, not limited in what it can do; that remains at its core -"an elective dictatorship"! Add to that, Labour believe in the elixir of winning monopoly political power on a minority of votes as the gold standard of how Labour can and should operate in govt. IMO it doesn't matter to Labour that the reality is that, since the creation of a mass franchise, Tories are more often in office than Labour, or that there are only brief episodes of Labour govt after the Tories exhaust themselves or self-destruct - that pattern holds for 1945, 1964, 1974, 1997, and maybe 2024? WHOLESALE DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION IS NOT SOMETHING THE UK POLITICAL CLASSES WILL ENCOURAGE AS IT WORKS AGAINST THEIR INTERESTS. It can only come about through pressure from the ground up, by popular support, and in times of constitutional crises. Brown's report is another attempt to "tinker at the edges" with the purpose of renewing the constitutional status quo while seeing the citizens of the UK as spectators who are not the creators of their own future - massively at odds with the vision for change in Scotland btw.