The election result in Scotland was for us in the Labour Party nothing short of cataclysmic.
For those of us who spent our evenings and weekends knocking on doors for our party, being on the receiving end of abuse by Cybernats on twitter, and having cameras shoved in our face by angry nationalists trying to shame us from participating in democracy, it was a bitter blow. A bitter blow that is all the more painful for the ill-informed backbiting that has followed.
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