Time to get behind Richard Leonard
It should come as no surprise that Richard Leonard’s leadership has come under attack from people who never wanted him as leader in the first place, as we can draw on similarities with how Jeremy Corbyn has been treated. However, this is more to do with MSPs selfishly looking at their own positions on the Scottish Labour’s parliamentary list and which leader would give them the best opportunity to remain high on that list. In seven months time we will be in the midst of a Scottish Parliamentary election campaign and there are some in the party intent in taking the us into a civil war where the Party may never recover and in which the foot soldiers, ie ordinary members, get used as cannon fodder for the self-preservation society. This is not acceptable Let’s be clear, political light weights, James Kelly, Jenny Marra, Daniel Johnstone et al, are testing the waters on behalf of a silent elite of so-called ‘centrists or moderates’ intent in making the party, in Scotland, more unioni