00:00Well, this is an incredible result, and Hamilton, Larcol and Stonehouse has now led the way in helping to elect a Scottish Labour government next year.
00:08And the overwhelming message here is clear. People are sick of this SNP government.
00:12They want them removed from office, and they recognise the 18 years of failure.
00:16They've also rejected the poison of Nigel Farage, but they've also said, and I think it's important to be straight about this,
00:21they also want a UK Labour government to go further and faster in demonstrably improving their lives.
00:26That's the message that people have sent. But next year now, it's a clear choice.
00:31In the election next year, it's not about reform. It's not about Nigel Farage. It's not about protesting about something else.
00:36It's a straight choice. A third decade of the SNP with John Swinney as First Minister, or a new direction for Scotland with me as First Minister.
00:43Well, I think there's a few different factors that made up the reform vote.
00:46One is there was always quite a sizable Tory vote in this constituency that has now transferred en masse to reform.
00:53Secondly, there were people who were expressing a frustration as a protest against perhaps both governments that supported reform.
01:00And third, some people will have fallen for the frankly ludicrous campaign suggestions and campaign of John Swinney
01:06that tried to talk up reform and actually push voters into the arms of reform by pretending that somehow only reform and the SNP could win the seat.
01:13And I think that has utterly failed. And it says something actually about someone that's been in power for 18 years that he couldn't stand on his record,
01:21he couldn't stand on a positive offer for our country, and instead the entire campaign boiled down to vote SNP to stop Farage.
01:29Well, next year, the choice is simple. Do we keep the SNP or do we stop SNP waste, stop SNP incompetence, and stop SNP failure?
01:36And the only way of doing that is by electing a Scottish Labour government.
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