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Labour’s unholy betrayal
That old marriage, once apparently made in heaven, between Labour as the party of the poor and Catholics as their foremost clients, seems to be heading for the rocks, writes Patrick Reilly, emeritus professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.It is like waking up married to a stranger, and to an unfriendly stranger at that. It is indisputable that a substantial and growing number of Scottish Catholics no longer instinctively turn to Labour.
That old conditioned reflex of unhesitatingly putting an X against the Labour candidate's name is fast fading. The deterioration has been caused, in part, by changes within the Catholic community, but in even greater measure by a seismic upheaval within Labour itself. The shorthand for this is New Labour.
Full story at the Sunday Herald.
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