The Labour party isn’t even pretending to respect the devolution settlement now. Labour’s idea of Scottish devolution is that they’ll support it as long as Scotland votes for a Labour controlled Scottish Government. It’s the do as we say because you can’t be trusted school of British nationalist paternalism. It’s not for a government in Westminster to second guess the democratic choices of the people of Scotland at a Holyrood election, but that is exactly what the deeply undemocratic Keir Starmer is doing. When the devolved Scottish Parliament was established in the late 1990s, Labour genuinely thought Scotland would be Labour’s plaything and powerbase forever. The voting system imposed on Holyrood was supposed to produce a Labour Lib Dem Scottish Government in perpetuity – or rather a ‘Scottish executive’ because we can’t have Scotland getting ideas above its station now can we?