Labour's squabbling ranks have managed to manufacture during the quiet political season a pointless internal row

SCOTTISH SUN SAYS

The Campaign For Socialism complained Scottish Labour candidates didn’t perform as well as their colleagues south of the border

Party poopers hit self-destruct

WILL Labour ever learn?

Just when things are starting to look up for them, they can’t resist tearing themselves apart.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale

Left-wing Scottish Labour faction the Campaign For Socialism — led by MSP Neil Findlay — decided it was a great time to lob a grenade at their leader Kezia Dugdale.

Their complaint? That Scottish Labour candidates didn’t perform as well as their colleagues south of the border.

They trotted out some convincing numbers to make the point. For example, increases in vote totals in Scotland were lower than south of the border.

But you can prove anything with statistics.

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For example, of the 30 seats Labour gained across the UK, six were in Scotland — or 20 per cent.

Given we only have nine per cent of constituencies, you could argue Scottish Labour did more than their fair share.

But all that is beside the point.

The political landscapes north and south are so different as to be incomparable — not least because the SNP only stand in Scotland.

So what Labour’s squabbling ranks have managed to manufacture during the quiet season is a pointless internal row.

And the only winners from that are the SNP and the Tories.

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Cut Beeb pay

THE BBC’s biggest earners could all halve their pay and still be very rich indeed.

And that is exactly what should happen.

The corporation will instinctively be tempted instead to shower huge rises on those stars — mostly female — who are understandably furious that others, almost all male, get far more.

It must resist such a free-for-all with licence-payers’ money.

The problem is not that people already on six-figure salaries are underpaid. It’s that far too many others are grotesquely overpaid . . . and many know it.

Already Radio 4’s John Humphrys says he would work for less than his £650,000.

The BBC insists it pays the market rate for its presenters. Let’s test that.

Tell them to take a big cut or face redundancy.

We’ll soon see then how eagerly the Beeb’s commercial rivals are to hire them on the extravagant salaries they have come to expect.

Some may sue. But the corporation already faces sex discrimination cases if it fails to bring greater pay equality.

The hard-up public — their own wages in the doldrums for a decade — are in no mood to see the BBC hand out big rises and make even more staff millionaires.

They’d rather the pay bill was cut, along with the licence fee.

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