Labour or Conservative do any of them have a clue?

The Labour party have indicated that they are changing their position on independence in Scotland. Scottish.  Kezia Dugdale the party leader in Scotland said the party’s elected MPs should be allowed to campaign in its favour in the event of a second referendum.  Forgive me for being ignorant but aren’t MPs meant to carry out the will of the people not what their party leaders tell them to do.

In her latest car-crash interview Kezia Dugdale attempted to avoid giving a straight answer and said “she did not accept that a second vote on the issue was inevitable but would not want to “shut down the debate” if it were to happen in future”. 

This was in response to ex-leader Johann Lamont I an interview with BBC Radio Scotland, who said “the party should debate whether to have a free vote in any future independence referendum.  We know that there were Labour people who supported Yes and we need to understand what that was and have that debate inside the party. It is for others to decide whether they make it a free vote. People clearly exercised their vote in the ballot box anyway. If that’s a debate we should have inside the party, why not?” 

Also in the interview Lamont said “on balance” she believed joining forces with the Tories in the Better Together campaign had been the right thing to do, despite Labour’s subsequent disastrous defeat in May’s General Election.

Over to the Tories then, in Dumfries and Galloway.  A not so clever group of Tory’s lodged a motion at a full council meeting calling for the local authority to seek parliament’s approval for a vote for residents of the area to vote to stay part of Britain or Scotland in the case of a second referendum.

The motion was thrown out, I’d like to point out that the members of the council whom put the motion forward have broken away from the local Tory party.