Acres of newsprint has been expended analysing the results - the fall of the 'red wall' and the part played by Corbyn in his own defeat - or was it our unsatisfactory Brexit position, largely the creation of Starmer (and the mass membership, it must be said).
What I was interested in was the split in the Labour vote - we all knew that there was a difficulty in holding a party together (from Hartlepool to Haringey or some such thing) which contained the 'authentic' old working class (residues thereof) with their social conservatism and the metropolitan youngsters with their liberal outlook. These strains currently bedevil all social democratic parties, but not it would seem, the SNP. They march on, as strongly as ever (still with a minority of the vote).
Now clearly they've managed to hold together their own unwieldy coalition of eco-friendly refugee-friendly trans-friendly metropolitans with a horde of outright flag-waving Westminster/Tory/English haters.
If one was to be mischievous and one was intent on causing difficulties, clearly there is a fault line which could just be worked upon.
Just sayin'
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