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In a self-serving struggle to protect their positions, rightwingers have tied up the party with an internecine internal battle rather than fighting the Tories and SNP, reports NEIL FINDLAY

THERE ARE, in every year, regular events and seasons we come to expect.
Easter, Christmas, Strictly Come Dancing, and of course that one there isn’t a name for but we are all familiar with. It’s the time of year where Scottish Labour’s kamikaze squad don their helmets and head scarves and push down on the throttle determined to destroy what remains of the party.
Not happy with previous efforts to lead the party to oblivion — Iraq, cosying up to Bush, befriending Rupert Murdoch and the super-rich, Better Together, Jim Murphy etc — they now seem to be pulling out all of the stops to kill the party once and for all.
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