Title: SNP rains on Labour’s May Day parade | Elections News | Al Jazeera
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SNP rains on Labour’s May Day parade
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Failure of trust

Content: Frank Toner is a young Labour councillor in West Lothian. “The UK Labour Party and the Scottish Labour Party have a workplace manifesto,” Toner said. “ It talks about breaking down exploitative contracts and zero hours contracts, it talks about raising the minimum wage.” These are policies that should resonate with the marchers shouting “zero hours, no way, make the greedy bosses pay”. But Labour is finding it hard to get a hearing in this campaign. Failure of trust
David Moxham is assistant general secretary of the Scottish Trade Union Congress, one of the main organisers of the May Day celebrations. He said people have lost faith in the party. “I think it has happened because for a long time Labour took its electorate in Scotland for granted. I still think that the Iraq War caused enormous damage amongst the activist base.” “The failure of trust is not something that can be recovered overnight,” Moxham added. “