The Scottish Labour Party is a branch office of the UK
Labour party led by Gordon Brown. The Labour Party has since its formation in the
early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of the United
Kingdom. It is currently the party of government in the UK as a whole, and also
in regional parliaments or assemblies in Scotland, Wales and London. It won by a
landslide victory in the 1997 general election, and formed its first government
since 1979. It retained its position with another large victory in the 2001
general election, and a smaller one (taking only 35.3% of the popular vote) in
2005.
Labour grew out of the trade union movement and socialist
political parties of the 19th century. Under Tony Blair's leadership however the
party has adopted a number of neo-liberal policies in the wake of the electoral
success of the Conservative Party's Margaret Thatcher and her ideology. There is
very little political difference between either party.
Labour formerly ran the Scottish Parliament before being
defeated in 2007 by the SNP and their person 'in
charge' of the Scottish party is Wendy Alexander. Alexander claims she now wants
more powers for the Scottish parliament even though her party did nothing about
this while in power. Recently Labour had meeting with their fellow unionists,
the Tories and Liberal Democrats to discuss greater powers for Scotland and then
promptly decided to ask their London leadership what they thought about it!
Alexander has since resigned and no-one else seems
desperate to be the next 'puppet on a string' sorry Scottish Labour leader!
Wendy Alexander
Former Scottish 'leader' Jack McConnell. Watch for
another tasty by-election when he finally becomes Ambassador for Malawi.
Jimmy Reid sums up what Labour really stands for!
Former Labour leader Jack McConnell gets ripped to bits on TV over the council tax, ha
ha ha!
The Scottish Labour Party is a branch office of the UK
Labour party led by Gordon Brown. The Labour Party has since its formation in the
early 20th century been the principal left wing political party of the United
Kingdom. It is currently the party of government in the UK as a whole, and also
in regional parliaments or assemblies in Scotland, Wales and London. It won by a
landslide victory in the 1997 general election, and formed its first government
since 1979. It retained its position with another large victory in the 2001
general election, and a smaller one (taking only 35.3% of the popular vote) in
2005. 
