By Rab Bruce’s Spider

It’s been quite amusing to watch the outrage of Labour Lefties over the Tory media attacking Jeremy Corbyn over the past few weeks. What most of those people fail to recognise is that they implicitly believed that same media during the Scottish IndieRef when the Yes campaign in general and Alex Salmond in particular were on the receiveing end of similar smear attacks.

That’s not to say that the anger isn’t justified. The Right Wing newspapers constantly refer to Blairite Labour MPs as "moderates", thereby implying that Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters are extremists. The papers are also misrepresenting Labour’s tax plans in an effort to scare the voters of Middle England.

None of which excuses Labour’s own anti-SNP rhetoric. Over the past couple of days we’ve witnessed Jeremy Corbyn and his Shadow Chancellor either put very biased spin on events or tell outright and quite blatant lies which are easily disproved. Quite why they think this will persuade Scottish voters to return to them is a mystery. Having the Tory Press tell lies about you doesn’t justify making up stories about the SNP but it appears Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour isn’t that much different to Milliband’s Labour when it comes to Scotland.

I even saw one Corbyn supporter calling for the green Party to cooperate with Labour in order to oppose Tory austerity measures. That’s the Green Party with one MP. There was no mention of 56 SNP MPs who were elected on an anti-austerity agenda. Labour, it seems, still has a very large blind spot when it comes to Scotland and, instead of reforming Labour into a genuinely socialist Party, Corbyn has reverted to type and fallen back on Westminster traditions and Unionist attitudes. IN short, he has nothing new to offer Scotland. He should have learned by now that the Scottish electorate don’t like being lied to.