James Cook

What happens if what we're seeing in England leads to, at the next general election, Nigel Farage as Prime Minister?

Polls suggest that would energise support for independence in Scotland.

So maybe John Swinney's thinking, cockanny, as they say here, go steady, keep things calm, get to that point and then see where we are.

Yeah, and you sort of forget about the enormous Labour majority.

You're like, oh no, they do have an enormous majority.

Not that you would necessarily know it.

They do not have an enormous majority here.

In fact, and I should have thought about this earlier and said this earlier, but I was just...

double-checking, but it is obviously the case.

This is Labour's worst performance since devolution.

Did I say that at the start?

Oh, I forget now.

I've been up a long time.

I don't think you did.

I don't think I did.

This is Labour's worst performance in the entire devolution era since 1999.

And actually, if you look at their seat total from 1999 onwards, it's gone down

every single election.

Labour clearly has a really serious problem in Scotland, a long-term, serious, serious problem for a party that has, in some respects, its roots in Scotland, its roots in the old, you know, industrial heartlands of this country, in the Labour movement.

And yet it has struggled for years and years and years, and it just seems to get worse.