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In reply to the discussion: Labour leapt into Brexit's fires - and now the party is burning [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)If Kezia Dugdale isn't really up to the job, and there's no one else AT Holyrood who is, isn't that pretty much a guarantee that Scottish Labour will never recover from its current situation?
In Canada, party leaders don't have to be MPs or members of whichever provincial legislature in which they lead a party. What this will often mean is that a sitting MP or legislator will agree to give up her or his (or, in the not-so-distant future, their)seat so that a newly-elected leader can stand for the seat in a byelection. Another MP or legislator will act as temporary leader of the party in the Commons or the legislature until the leader manages to win a seat.
I'm just saying changing party rules to allow this in Scotland might provide a way out of the current situation, and a chance that Scottish Labour might get a new leader who would actually provide an effective alternative to the Nats.
From what I'm hearing, there's no guarantee Scottish Labour under its current leader will even hold its current number of seats in the next Holyrood election.