It has become abundantly clear to me over the last few years that Scottish Labour have been unable to fully address the one glaring problem in their party.

But this is not anti semitism, or pro Corbyn Palestinian supporters, this is the one thing they truly detest more than the Tories do and the one thing they laid the very foundations for in Scotland. Independence.

But as February begins to wane and the daffodils and crocuses start to blossom, let me add a little more light and colour to proceedings by telling you that all is not rosy in the Scottish Labour garden

Scottish Labour was founded on the principles of a Scottish Home Rule movement in 1887 by Sir James Keir Hardie. But as the decades went by, it slowly abandoned it's Scottish roots and took a more London centric view and alienated it's core Scottish working class group who still favoured a devolved Scottish assembly. Devolution as you know came to Scotland in 1997, but the Labour party has been divided ever since on the question of whether or not Independence is the next step towards achieving what was after all their founding fathers principle.

Pro Indy Scottish Labour voters feel a sense of betrayal over what they believe was an unfulfilled promise. Cue the Smith commission in the wake of the 2014 referendum. To this day it is still unclear to many Independence supporters who Lord Smith was, and what exactly where his motives for agreeing to be the face of David Cameron's fraud project in which we were all duped into believing the Scottish Parliament would be granted more powers. Smith is a chartered accountant with no real political affiliation to any particular party but his name but his name is a major sticking point for Scottish Labour voters. Labour voters with Indy sympathies were encouraged by the prospect of their old warlord Gordon Brown being the brains behind the operation in drafting up new powers for the Scottish Government.

But when this did not transpire - and ten years on we are still waiting for it to transpire - the factions created in the Labour camp were very noticeable indeed. Scots Labour voters for Independence were formed demanding an inquiry into the lack of transparency and the broken promises of the Smith Commission. Several Labour MSP's have since admitted that if they knew that Labour was going to attach their dog leg to the dirty tricks of Brexit, they would have happily switched to Independence supporting parties in Scotland. 

Labour are not the party who are going to destroy their own creation of Devolution, but they are also not going to destroy the dream of Independence either. Because Labour in Westminster, are riddled with infighting and do not want this to be brought to the surface and the Independence movement is too strong and can see right through their nonsense.