From today’s edition of The Herald:
Scottish Labour lost the May election because of infighting over control, a poorly thought out manifesto and the facts that the party had little momentum or a positive message …
The Colwell memo states the campaign was “relentlessly negative with little that can be judged to be positive.
“The national organisation was hampered by in-fighting over who was in control, while local organisation was patchy. It seemed that the party has been hollowed out,” though in some places candidate effort and headquarters support made a difference.
Full story on The Herald’s website.
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The way I recall Scottish Labour were supposed to get utterly annihilated but bounced back quite well to a near miss. I suppose the comment about relentless negativity could be transferred to your crew who hardly covered themselves in glory either before or after these elections.