LABOUR post-Sturgeon revolution is off to a somewhat slow start, if their party conference livestream is anything to go by.
With Anas Sarwar recently calling the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon an “opportunity” for the Labour Party, and vows that the party is “coming to get ye” towards the SNP MPs, he will have had high hopes going into today.
He may be regretting his brashness after the opening day of Scottish Labour’s Party Conference ended up with less simultaneous viewers than a drunken Instagram livestream.
👀 Currently the grand total of 1 person is watching the @ScottishLabour conference on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/exlcvNywz6
— Olaf Stando 🌻 (@olafdoesstuff) February 17, 2023
Sarwar suggested Nicola Sturgeon's replacement will not be as "formidable" as a politician as she was – we’d be interested to hear which word he chooses to describe his party’s conference livestream on Twitter, which in its closing hour or so peaked at around eight viewers and regularly fell to one. And that’s counting journalists asked by an editor to tune in.
Over the runtime of 441 minutes, it pulled in a total of 1769 viewers.
The Scottish Labour conference started today in Edinburgh and will end on Sunday.
Anas Sarwar recently ruled out a Labour-SNP coalition at Westminster – despite the party’s coalitions with the Tories at a council level.
Labour have been out of government in Westminster since 2010, when Gordon Brown was defeated.
Perhaps a livestream from the arch-Unionist himself is among the few offerings that would have managed to attract less than that one viewer total.
