So, what now for Scottish Labour?
The good news is that their historic decline seems to have finally bottomed out (this election will have seen the last of the "legacy" vote from when they were Scotland's hegemonic party dissipating)
The bad is that despite the rave reviews Sarwar has been getting they didn't actually make progress (and of course some on the party's left are drawing the predictable "conclusions" about that)
I have to say I disagree with this.
Labour benefited a lot from tactical unionist voting this time around. They could still go lower and certainly haven't 'bottomed out'. A lot of the ancestral Labour vote they still have, they will retain for decades to come as it's unlikely the SNP/ others will take much more if they haven't already unless there's another/ a further realignment of Scottish politics.
In some places, in others their remaining vote went "tactically" Tory in big numbers.
Overall it looks about right for their "underlying" support.
The question, though, is what Sarwar can do after his promising start to increase that.
