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Scotland could have returned Labour in every constituency and they would have still lost the election, hence the strong feeling being part of the UK doesn't represent our political identity or will.
Thank the lord we've got a Blairite non-entity in charge of Scottish Labour or maybe our national security would be unsecure. Oh, no-all of the UK's nuclear arsenal is parked a few miles from our most populous city. Phew.
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Peter_Carter
That's based on your own primary research, what happened over thirty years ago, or what you've heard repeated again and again in the media?
Labour was in a very precarious electoral position before Corbyn was made leader. An almost insurmountable deficit of votes thanks to Scotland and the soon to be redrawn electoral borders. Not to mention Ukip and the Green party winning previous Labour votes. To simply keep repeating that Corbyn will make Labour a pariah party isn't particularly insightful, original, or helpful.
It's five years away and he may very well be ousted before then. But I don't see how his leadership has put the party in a position so radically different than it was in before.