Breaking: Kezia Dugdale steps down as Scottish Labour leader

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17. Thanks for the info about the likely sucessors to Dugdale.

Politicians have been "trimming their sails to suit the weather" for as long as there have been politicians and it cannot be a surprise if a number politicians who have previously been Blairites suddenly convert to left wing politics now that Corbyn's faction is in the ascendancy.

You have been taken aback by our Alaskan friends devotion to Corbyn in the past, but it's worth thinking about why you come across more people like our Alaskan friend south of the Tweed.

In Scotland a vast swathe of the sort of people Corbyn's politics attracts jumped ship from Labour en masse following the Independence referendum. In England those people are flocking to Corbyn but in Scotland there is a clear alternative for those people, whose disenchantment with Labour is often bigger than one man. Scottish and English politics are growing further apart, which is not always healthy IMHO. However, this does create a need for parties north of the border to be more independent of their central offices in London.