Really sad he died of cancer a few years ago.

and yet Labour in less than a year in office have manage to underperform the Tories to a disasterous degree for the UK

And that will end well.

The Scottish government published a detailed blueprint for an independent Scotland, due to it being the SNP the ruling party in Holyrood which initiated the referendum.

There was no similar blueprint for the UK outside of the EU due to the government being essentially pro-EU, any blueprint wouldn't have been credible and easily accused of bias.