If the Labour party are reading this: you sowed this poison, now you're reaping its rewards.

Comments on a Facebook post by Ian Murray, Labour's last MP in Scotland, are quite hysterical in their outrage at the SNP.

From Ian Murray's Facebook page.

In fairness to Ian Murray, his post is actually quite sensible and highlights a bit of mischievous SNP hay-making at the expense of Labour. But the commenters go further, complaining - unbelievably - that the media is now biased in favour of the SNP! They also suggested that there is a cult of personality taking hold, with worship of Sturgeon, and that ideology has replaced reason.

But let's look at the evidence.

During the two-year campaign for the Scottish Independence Referendum ("indyref"), the mainstream media (MSM) and the traditional Westminster parties (TWP, i.e. Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrats) bombarded Scotland with lie after lie and scare story after scare story. TWP even got foreign leaders and foreign diplomats to speak against Scottish independence, each poisoned word gleefully lapped up and reported by the MSM.

What was the result?

Surprise-surprise, indyref supporters learned not to trust any statements from the TWPs or the MSM. Simply put, you reap what you sow.

If Labour really want to regain their previous position in Scotland, they're going to have to apologise to Scotland for all the lies they told during indyref.

On the current evidence, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

If the Labour party are reading this: you sowed this poison, now you're reaping its rewards.

Some quotes:

•  I'm getting seriously concerned that some kind of national psychosis has infected the public. The cult of personality is being deliberately pursued, with Sturgeon now wooing the USA, and being successful in that too. 
• Alas, for some it is now way beyond reason. It's becoming their cult. Ideology replaces reason.
• It is seriously concerning that very few of the SNP failings are reported in the media. The failings at the flagship hospital in Glasgow given fleeting reference yet Ms Sturgeons trip to USA covered at length. Is there some sort of press censorship going on?

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