Blair was a piss poor PM, Brown is now a piss poor PM. Labour wouldnt have got in if England voted alone. The whole ethos for labour is spin, spin, spin and it works!
The fundamental problem is that Scotland has a inbred dislike for conservatives coming from the thatcher era, plus half of scotland and the north east of england are brain dead when it comes to politics (im from the north east so im not having a go at someone else), its often a case of "my parents voted labour, their parents voted labour so im voting labour" when they havent got a clue.
On top of this, voters who err to the ri