Scotland’s Saviour
No, wait, hear us out.
It’s not what you think.
John Swinney’s been insulting everyone’s intelligence again today.
If you’re an indy supporter and you’re not offended at being asked to swallow that idiot drivel again, then we’re sorry, but you’ve got stale custard and gravel for brains and shouldn’t be allowed to go to the shops by yourself in case you come back with a packet of “magic beans” that are actually squirrel turds.
But as repulsed as we were, we couldn’t help wondering why Swinney was going to the trouble of ostensibly making his life more difficult by insisting that only an SNP majority – not a “pro-indy” one with the Greens – would trigger a new indyref.
(We all know neither would, but that’s not the point.)
One reason, of course, is that he wants to make sure he fails, so that he can spend the next five years blaming voters rather than the SNP for the failure to deliver another referendum. By setting an impossible target – the SNP is currently on 32% and going nowhere – he’s getting his excuses in early.
But it occurred to us that he might have realised what we did when Jeremy Corbyn announced his formation of an as-yet-unnamed new party to contest the next election.
Because the most obvious loser in Scotland from a new far-left party with a well-known figurehead leader is the Scottish Greens. The party is currently in the midst of a bitter and farcical civil war between its extremist fringe and its REALLY extremist fringe to take over from Patrick Harvie, who’s standing down as they-call-it-co-convener-but-we-know-it-really-means-leader next year.
Divided parties rarely prosper at elections, and the list vote (where all of the Greens’ MSPs come from) was already going to be an absolute dogfight in 2026. With the SNP a dozen points clear even in its greatly diminished state, it’s going to sweep most of the constituency seats and leave Labour, the Tories, a resurgent Lib Dems, the all-new Reform juggernaut and the Greens battling for the scraps on the list.
As we’ve noted, one likely outcome of that is that the threshold for a list seat is likely to rise from around 6% of the vote to more like 8% or 9%, since the non-SNP vote is fairly evenly split. Discounting what seems a wild outlier from Ipsos last month, most recent regional polling looks something like this:
With seven seats per region, on a uniform distribution with the current 6% threshold that’d break down to two Labour, two Tory, one Lib Dem, one Reform and one Green. On 8% you’d get two Labour, two Reform, one Tory, one Lib Dem and one Green.
But if – as the More In Common poll suggests – the new Corbyn party carved off just two or three points from the Green vote, the Greens would be in big trouble. On the numbers above Scottish Labour could afford to give up a slice of its list vote without much harm, but the Greens can’t.
They’re definitely the main current Scottish repository of the “NET-ZERO TRANS QUEERS FOR PALESTINE!” vote that’s likely to coalesce around Corbyn, so let’s punt an estimate. Let’s say the New Jezbollah Party – seriously, who launches a party that doesn’t even have a name yet? – snags 3% from the Greens, 3% from Labour, 1% from the SNP (in the wake of Mhairi Black’s grand flounce last week) and a generous 1% from the Lib Dems and/or current disgruntled non-voters.
That would give us:
Reform 16%
Labour 15%
Tories 15%
Lib Dems 9%
Corbyn 8%
Greens 6%
Which most likely breaks down in each region to Reform 2, Labour 2, Tories 2, Lib Dems 1. The Corbyn vote will be strongest in the same places as the Green one, so is more likely to pick up any crumbs dropped in some regions by the Lib Dems or Tories.
The Greens might cling onto hopes of keeping a seat each in Glasgow and Lothian (where they got 12% and 13% in 2021), but even then it might be tight – for the same reasons noted in the previous paragraph – and everywhere else they’d be toast.
Of course a near-wipeout for the Greens wouldn’t remotely fix everything that’s wrong with Scottish politics, so “Saviour” was probably over-egging it a wee bit, but it’d be a cracking start, and at least offer SOMETHING to root for in what currently looks like a crushingly boring election that voters will struggle to summon up any enthusiasm for.
So let’s hear it, readers, for the unexpected Second Coming of the Socialist Messiah. What’s the worst that could happen?
Corbyn? ANTISEMITISM!!
(Sorry, just wanted to be the first to say it)
Corbyn hasn’t got a discriminatory bone in his body.!!! Hate seeing genocide in Palestine? ANTISEMITISM!!!
Fa’s Palestine then? I cannae find it oan ony map.
Is it some kind o’ subterranean place? 🙂
To see Ross Greer and Lorna Slater loose their seats is definitely worth voting for. Swinney has a big lorry full of carrots ready to be deployed. Whilst those thick enough to swallow it are reducing in numbers there are a few thick folk ready to munch the Swinney carrots.
What a state of the Scottish nation!
You can’t vote Tory after 14 years of sleaze, scandal, corruption, austerity, credit crunch and then resession.
Labour have transformed into an insipid Tory party where again the working class the poor and the disabled must continue to take less and give more.
Lib Dem’s are happy to be members of the above parties just for a couple of important jobs as Ministers for 5 years and then a seat in the Lords.
SNP keep wallpapering the Lounge with the same wallpaper that has a monotony that would drive anyone stir crazy.
Reform and Farage have still got the snake oil salesman charm that conned and robbed the nation with the disaster that has always been Brexit’s fulfilment.
Greens- we would love to be more green but it means being worse off standing in the rain waiting for buses that don’t appear and building millions of bike lanes for those 2 guys that have bikes for getting to and from Drag Queen shows.
Alba is a lonely spark without oxygen and the media intend to keep it that way.
I want a new government formed by the Rev, Mick Lynch, and Martin Lewis but who is going to vote for people who are only interested in supporting ordinary people?
We have to hope that the umbrella grouping of Liberate Scotland gets the support and coverage that is needed so they receive at least 10% of the list vote. If Alba came under the umbrella that would help.
There is 9 months to make a major difference in the political scene. We cannot afford to have the big independence voices silent. We need them to speak to each other and get a common message out to the electorate.
10%???? A Fantasy.
The latest poll (IPSOS) on the next Holyrood election has “Other” (including “Liberation”) at 1% of the regional vote.
“Liberation” has more online commenters, than it has voters.
Yeah, WTF, where has the indy vote to go? ALBA just does not seem to cut it for so many people. We need the broader all for Indy umbrella, and SNP – seriously?. How absolutely dead in the water is Swinney. It will be nice to see the back of the “greens” for sure though.
There is one, under the Liberate Scotland banner. I’ll back it if I have a candidate in my area.
I agree, I do wish ALBA would come under the umbrella, too. It was Alex’s dream to take ALBA to power, but it won’t happen for years, if ever, now that he is gone.
TBH Lorn I now view ALBA as another bunch of establishment gradualists with NO FIGHT in them, they don’t even know how to create headlines
How long has Kenny MacAskill been involved in politics both here and WM yet he has done nothing memorable in Scottish politics to ruffle any feathers
What is needed is someone who is NOT willing to engage in the establishment rules, who is willing to expose the lies and corruption spouted by party politicians and their tame broadcasters and media
If the fruit and nut party get any seats at Holyrood the question to ask is Who will they support in Holyrood? They might kill off the Greens but would they be in a position to edge it for Sarwar?
Absolutely no chance – they hate Labour even more than the SNP do.
The real tragedy is that politics needs a proper green party : one that is more focussed on the climate rather than rainbows
Nature, the natural environment was dropped first. All over Europe the elite Green politicians are croaking for war. Hard to fathom but easy enough to observe.
I for one would be very happy for the greens to be taken out of the SP completely.
They are the monster raving looney party of Scottish politics but don’t realise it
I see Keir Starmer has kicked indyref2 into the long grass.
He won’t allow another referendum, even if the SNP win a majority of seats at Holyrood next year.
In his recent talks with John Swinney, Starmer said neither of them had made this their first priority.
link to m.youtube.com
You think it is up to Starver and the English parliament to decide if we can determine our future?
Vote to get rid of Swinney.
I agree with Sarah and hope Alba comes in with Liberate Scotland to give us at least 12%
Can’t see Reform picking up 16%.
Yes, the Liberate Scotland unity alliance is offering the best option for Yes voters, also providing the opportunity to use the List vote to great effect.
Alba participation In Liberate Scotland would strengthen the offer and also benefit themselves considerably, whereas if Alba remains on its own it will hardly register.
We know that Scots fowk will come out and vote for candidates promising to declare Independence based on election of a pro-indy majority. They won’t come out otherwise.
The opportunity for unity is there:
link to isp.scot
“Liberation” + Alba still gets only 3% in the latest poll.
Even if it occurred, uniting two irrelevant micro-parties only creates one (irrelevant) micro-party.
Excuse my ignorance when it comes to the parliament of Scotland elections,
where are all these political parties registered as Scottish political parties?
To vote SNP would betraying Scoland again I did in 2021 because of the super-majority not this time, for me I want the SNP dead and buried this party will never deliver for anyone other than themself s.
I will be voting for Corbyns new party if party promises a constitutional vote, why wouldn’t I I’m not bothered what colour give me a vote as long as Scotland has it.
I honestly believe the SNP will be struggling next year to even get close to holding on to power at Holyrood and all these Independent and new parties are going to swallow any votes up its going to SNP votes.
one of two thing will happen next year the SNP loses the election or collapses as a party.
So no out-and-out Palestine party?
That’s odd. I thought that’s the only subject the voters of Scotland care about.
“NET-ZERO TRANS QUEERS FOR PALESTINE!””
This is why I love this site
I think that’s a reference to the fact there will be no nets waiting when they get thrown off the roof in Palestine
🙂
Always assuming there’s any roofs left.
Scotland’s Saviour will be when people wake up and take control of their political and social system.
There is no democracy in Scotland at present. The political parties and the political process us a sham. Corruption runs deep from local government to devolved government to Westminster government. Corporate interest has hollowed the country to a shell. And it is set to get worse.
So saviour should maybe “saveyer|” as in save yourself. Folks should wake up, not woke up, and take back control. It just takes will. The will of many.
Or like the 1930s will we just walk into the chambers when our utility is no longer needed.
I’d be personally amazed if Jezbollah makes it to fielding candidates in Holyrood for 2026. I doubt they’ll have much in the way of resources, and the types of people that they are likely to field aren’t going to have great personal wealth they can draw on to fund their campaign personally. I’d guess they’ll target a few seats where Labour is vulnerable in London and the South East, maybe at one election, and then fade into irrelevance.
They would however, I think, probably support a second referendum for Scotland if the Scottish people voted for it in sufficient numbers. Unfortunately, there is no chance of them getting into a position where they are remotely in a position to do anything about it.
Willie,
The corruption goes deep, and is long standing, is it about time people started thinking about how they would like their future to be or if they will just go forward sleep walking and excepting more and more restrictions until they realise that they too, have cornered themselves into a dispotic governance no matter where they are living,
The chain links are being bought together an shortened piece by piece with each new act and action taken.
Personally I suppose when looking at english-British history in particular, it seems strange to me that the bully boys of most Countries in the past is taking such a hiding by Europe.
Is that karma?
As I often note, it is not Scotland that they should be worrying them, its the political infiltration and laws that is making the old Empire into the little England region.
Not the Scots.
Scotlands Saviour will be the crushing of England by policies that have nothing to do with Scotland, but with the rest of Europe.
Wales is restless, Scotland is restless, Ireland is restless, but so is most of Europe itself.
But I suppose all this restlessness around the world could be contained if you import a young army of men ready to suppress any uprisings especially if laws are passed to protect them. You feed them and house them, look after them , their wants and needs,
In exchange for permission papers to become localised.
This is just a theory on experimental Society you understand, until it becomes a proven reality. And no longer a theory.
Well done to the Lionesses though.
Good post, JC.
You’re certainly more on the ball on this subject than perhaps you are on the shenanigans around 1707.
The “New Brits” aren’t just being given permission papers to become citizens. They’re also being taught that from the moment they set foot on terra firma here, they won’t have to be shackled by the same laws and rules that apply to those suckers who can trace their citizenship back several generations.
And that’s been a proven reality for some time now.
Jeremy Corbyn says he is building something special as his new socialist party gains 500,000 members and pushes for real change.
Me think John the Moron shouldn’t be looking at reform but Your.party.
Nooooo Rob!
You are determined to be a fun sponge.
The Greens are the best comedians in Holyrood!
Where else are we going to get the likes of Ross Greer and Lorna Slater, to keep us amused with even more idiotic lunacy than the SNP can manage?
Despite the SNP’s valiant efforts, the Greens are still ahead in the comedy gold stakes.
How can we be deprived of their bonkers ideas?
The Corbyn and Sultana cake party. Mixed fruit and nuts.
The links to coral us are indeed being joined up and shortened James Cheyne.
Every aspect of our being, our history, what we have, what we own, all on
For years now, and without consent the police, the home office and other have access to our NHS data. Many years ago I got rejected from a GP surgery for refusing to endorse an agreement that said I accepted the sharing of my data with Police, the Home office, the HMRC and other such bodies. A national publication picked up on it, the NHS denied it, said they were using the wrong joining form, but the practice manager had already told me that I need to endorse the information sharing because they need to run my data into the Home Office computers.
But that is only the start, The government have biometric data on most folks through a picture. Folks can’t avoid their pictures being recorded and shared. Bus pass, passport, driving licence, disabled badge, and much more all shared across the data bases.
And ones assets and income. Your bank accounts all now linked with the HMRC using algorithms to profile people’s spending. Not just being able to see how much or how little money folks have is not enough.
And then of course all PAYE now has to be processed online to HMCR giving rise to more profiling and matching. And your house it too is linked courtesy of your national insurance number used to thread things together.
And your car, and even where it goes. Well the registration reading cameras placed on every road around the country they have for years now been recording each and every car as to when it passes. Kept for seven years they say, police and other agencies can track car movements. They can even do it in real time. And now there are more cameras.
And facial recognition. Not just at airports but even in the city centre of Glasgow where they can be utilized to search for a particular person of interest, past or in real time.
But it goes on. Speech recognition. The HMRC were taking speech recognition signatures years before they admitted they were doing it. And the banks. They do it too. No interview in a branch and no account. That’s the Bank of Scotland whilst they still have branches but of course phone and digital can do the same.
Or the profiling of people’s internet activity. Wouldn’t bet that the government don’t do that. Cambridge Analytica did.
And now money, cash, it is for the chop. Many hotels do not take cash for the hotel, resturants, bars or coffee shops even.
Left without cash, folks are totally trackable and can be stopped in their track when the method of payment, the only method of payment is pulled. Think it couldn’t happen here, well in Toronto, protesting truckers found out that when the the Canadian government pulled all the drivers bank accounts, credit cards and driving licences.
Of course in good old democratic Great Britain where old folks live in warm houses, and where the politicians are all straight, and the corporate elites are in truth all benevolent benefactors that could never happen here.
And we wonder how Germany lumbered into the horror state of the 1930s. But we live in a country as democratic and honest as the pure driven snow.
And Corbyn, which started this exchange of comments, well for all of his good points, assuming he might have some, the guy is anti Scottish Independence. Under his benevolent old face there’s a hard line Brit, as hard line as Boris Johnson and all the rest.
But stumble on folks. Animal Farm beckons unless folks take control.
Not much to argue with there, willie.
Perhaps the trick to survival will be to adopt the kind of protective colouration that the state positively discriminates for.
Have you tried wearing a burka?
@ willie: I’m very afraid that you are right. We need to get decent principled people into politics who will then implement direct democracy so that the worrying systems that you describe can be tackled.
Forgot to say earlier, Willie.
The crime bill currently going through WM and expected to become UK law soon, grants ordinary police the same rights to seize personal electronic devices and interrogate them to identify posts, messages, texts etc. as does the similar legislation recently passed in the USA.
This story has been covered by Private Eye.
We’re not talking about Special Branch or people suspected of criminal offences here. We’re talking about low ranking, local police, if they have cause (or a pretext) to take an interest in you and decide to do some digging to see what they can find.
Your ominously true post is appreciated.
If you don’t mind, since you reference the book, I will take the opportunity to mention for those interested that a Gaelic edition of Animal Farm is available here:
TUATHANAS NAN CREUTAIREAN
(Translated by Angus Peter Campbell) –
link to gaelicbooks.org
The National, the Unionist paper pretending to be Pro-Indy has all the SNP faithful crying someone to help as John Swinney isn’t it, we told you.
I can’t wait for Holyrood election now, its going to be a hoot. I watched everyone SNP MP fall in the Westminster election and cried another scrounger bytes the dust.
John Swinney SNP Holyrood majority bid branded ‘self-preservation’.
John Swinney is the sort of man, if he worked in a office no one would even notice he was there that’s how much affect and personality he has.
Even if the SNP stated that it would work with all other pro-indy parties on a solid plan I honestly believe the SNP has cried wolf far to many times for the general public to believe them.
“1000 years from now there will be no guys or girls, just wankers”
You’ve got to hand it to the Palestinians. In the middle of a war zone they can certainly choreograph a great photo shoot.
So you’ve noticed that too?
It’s all the more mystifying when there’s supposedly no power, no mobile coverage, no fuel and all the journalists have been killed.
It’s enough to make alert readers wonder what will happen if there ever is a cease fire and hostage swap. Will platoons of well-nourished fighters in spotless uniforms emerge from their underground citadels, weighed down with weapons and ammo, just like last time?
I think Kneecap should do a gig there.
Gerry and the Peacemakers as support. Just think of the quality coverage. Maybe the Palestinians will understand what Kneecap are saying. Anyway it’s certainly better coverage than the Ukrainian war. Where the BBC chap ran through a trench and somebody shouted Bang!
Nope, struggle as I may, I find it completely impossible to imagine any conceivable situation in which Mr Corbyn (so relatively recently being supported by Mr Starmer to be the UK PM) could be regarded as a “Saviour”.
In fact, it’s challenging to think of a question to which “Jeremy Corbyn” would be a constructive answer.
First Starmer and Swinney, and now the Donald.
This from the Herald.
“Donald Trump has suggested there should be 50 or 75 years between referendums on Scottish independence, telling journalists a country “can’t go through that too much”.
The US President was speaking after John Swinney set out his trigger for a second vote on the constitution.”
Well that’s *totes awkward* for John Swinney, I wonder how he’s going to explain this away?
“Between 50 and 75 years” between referendums..
By which time we (here reading this) will all be dead and the NS oil and gas long exhausted to WMs benefit!
Hmmmm..
Strange then that the Americans celebrate the Boston tea party within a handspan of years of the DOI.
Different places, different rules apparently..
Weird eh?
I wonder who is going to pop up next and say it should be at least a hundred years?!
‘But if – as the More In Common poll suggests – the new Corbyn party carved off just two or three points from the Green vote, the Greens would be in big trouble’
A more likely cause if Green Party performs badly in 2026 is the loss of list votes resulting from falling SNP support.
In 2021, the Green list vote (220K, up from 35K constituency) was almost entirely due to SNP constituency voters opting for SNP1/Green2 (SNP list vote 197K lower than constituency vote).
As SNP tank in the polls, it is likely that pro-rata, the Green support from SNP list votes will fall 50+%. Additionally, SNP voters were in a position last time to be cavalier with their second vote but will be wary this time round: current devotees much more likely to go 1&2.
Jezzbollah, funny, like that 🙂
Then there’s Bennys a nutty yahoo.
That makes me smile as well.
Corbyn was never in favour of independence. If he can scupper the Greens and bring them back to ‘green’ issues again, fine, but we shouldn’t expect him to help us regain our independence. If anything, the left now is even more British Nationalist than the Tories. Thy all look at Scotland and themselves: how can we use them?
I’m reading about Sandie Peggie’s friend. She’s a Judas and a Handmaiden like Nicola Sturgeon. A nasty piece of work.
Remember the woke SNP cancelled Jerry Sadowitz from the fringe for telling jokes. Seems like Peggy was only making some crass jokes. Encouraged by her friend in the the group chat.
It just goes to show you how nasty women can be to each other. Particularly in the NHS which must have the highest rate of bullying any profession. So much for compassion and empathy.
An erudite You tuber ‘History Debunked’ reckons Corbyn is just a front man for the five Islamists who are his associates.
Cherrybank I suspect he’s onto something.
Magic Grandpa will be the frontman for the Muslim bloc vote that is now emerging.
The left will be all over this, forgetting that Islamists when they gain power in the Middle East execute the left.
I fully expect to see in the future a demand made for Sharia law to be given equal status to UK law, as not to do so would be “wacist” and discriminatory.
At that point we will see who is in control, Westminster or the Muslim bloc vote.
England now has a big problem, not only with lots of illegal economic migrants, but also with Muslim sectarian politics now coming out into the open.
They have also imported anything up to 100,000 Afghans, many of whom know how to fight in an insurgency.
This is not going to end well, as the Police will not be able to cope, and the military is too weak in the event of serious internal unrest.
Some may think this alarmist, but there’s plenty of talk of unrest, or even a civil war, Professor David Betz of Kings College London, thinks we will have major problems ahead.
I think you’ve watched and taken “Children of Men” a touch too serious!
Rivers of blood eh..
All the Palestinian protesters arrested in London were all in retirement age. What a time in life to realise the world’s fucked. Where the hell have these people been.
Probably protesting all their days.
Only now the govt/ polis/ media are over reacting on this one.
Protesting: It’s been the university/ polytechnic middle class “thing” since the end of the 60s..
Wonder if Starmer will send in the mounted constabulary like Thatcher happily did to the working class miners and uppity “Scotch” football fans..
Wait and see eh?
I wouldn’t even call their behaviour a protest. More of a self gratification done ever so safely with little or no risk to ones self. An orchestrated middle class show. Even the location. I would go as far to say the government is involved.
NHS Scotland the monstrous regiment of wimen.
In reply to MB @ 2.19
Quite so.
However it begs the question therefore why they were lifted?
We’ve had twats here attempting to desecrate the stone of destiny and Stirling’s Wallace sword; no reaction like that though.
Don’t get me wrong; I’d have happily read those bar stewards had been birched, but yet again- students in “high spirits” gets away with almost anything by comparison.
John Swinney to call for ‘immediate’ constitutional convention on independence but he’ll leave out all other pro-indy party’s.
Looks like Jeremy’s party is more of a threat to the SNP than Reform is.
Has the 3 point plan become 0 plan, don’t panic don’t panic. Already Jeremy Corbyn party has the SNP in full panic mode and why wouldn’t it the general public knows the SNP will not deliver Independence and lets be honest a huge part of the population isn’t talking about Independence on a day to day basis like we are.
Swinney is a busted flush.
To paraphrase Stephen King:
Late last year and the years before,
carpetbaggers, carpetbaggers knocking on my country’s door.
I wanna be free, and I know that I can
I just need to get rid of the carpetbagger man
Corbyn is no friend to the Scots, but he might be of some tangential use to them as he pursues his revenge on the party he once led.
Corbyn is just another Anglo-carpetbagger coming out of the greatest carpetbagger kingdom in modern history – but one who might incidentally accelerate the timeline of the SNP’s demise.
As ever, each tae thair ain – but here’s my view for what it’s worth (wheech isnae muche seein’ hits juist anither unco mannie’s opeenion).
The next English ‘Scottish’ Parliament election in 2026 will be yet another devolved Anglo-circus; an Anglo-Saxon shitshow; a corner shopspearean tragedy of pantomimical proportions played by second-rate bad faith actors stuttering out their poorly scripted lazy lines on a shoddy stage knocked together under the leaky roof of a crumbling empire’s theatre of illusion and entirely directed by England’s Scottish colony script writers.
The only possible reason for independence supporting Scots to cast a vote in 2026 is if they are casting a vote for a party or an independent independence candidate operating under the Liberate Scotland umbrella – other than that… a pointless waste of time and effort that only ‘legitimises’ their continuing subjugation.
unco = unknown.
Jeremy Corbyn, the socialist republican revolutionary / sworn King’s servant and King’s Privy Counsellor and upholder of sovereignty of Crown in Wm parliament.
Like the champions of Scottish sovereignty seeking steady employment as the sworn-in King’s servants, King’s Privy Counsellors and upholders / administrators of sovereignty of English Crown in WM Parliament over the Scots and Scotland.
I wonder how we never get a socialist republic or indy? Hmmmm.
Given the Jezbollah Party is going all out for the pro Palestinian, Pakistani Muslim vote it will be interesting to see how they fare in Glasgow Pollok and Southside. Currently ‘represented’ by absentee MSPs Yusaf and Sturgeon. Even 50 years ago a third of my school mates at Bellahouston were Pakistani Muslims.
It’s the first step to the establishment of the caliphate in the UK. If Indy suits that long-term aim (it’s an obvious divide-and-conquer strategy), then they’ll be all for Indy.
After all, an Independent Scotland will be easier to Islamise.
Alert readers who support Indy need to take a nuanced view. Which historical force presents the biggest long-term threat to Scotland? Westminster and the UK, or Islam?
The regulars on here love to point out that no former colony ever goes back to colonisation. No country converted to Islam ever goes back either – it’s death to even discuss the idea.
John,
Thatcher said her biggest achievement was New Labour.
It was an acknowledgment of Labour’s lurch to the right, the endorsement of Milton Friedman’s political ideology that culminated in a Knight of the Realm as a leader of ‘the party for workers’.
Pretty much every political fork in the road in Westminster, has been to the right to the extent that Starmer’s Labour is more right wing than Thatchers government.
This UK today is what we, the electorate, voted for again and again, proving beyond doubt that turkeys do in fact vote for Christmas.
Jeremy Corbyn was an accident and an abomination to his own party that they were lining up to stab him in the back, painted as antisemitic, terrorist supporter and ridiculed for not wanting to launch Nuclear weapons. They had to get rid of him somehow, but The Labour Party was always going to pull him to the right more than he could pull them to the left.
Ever rightwards and ever more authoritarian is where we have arrived albeit momentarily, this isn’t the conclusion of our journey, our destination is much more dystopian for us, for our children and for our grandchildren.
I have absolutely no doubt that it’s comforting to blame immigrants for all the ills of the country but it is ourselves to blame, as we are responsible for electing the politicians that made every step a step to the right and allowed an excess of cheap labour into the UK to assuage big business’ desire to squeeze every penny of profit to the detriment of the indigenous workforce and society at large.
I’m not advocating for the left, I’m a centrist. That means we need balance, politically.
We can’t have that if there are only right wing governments, the same goes for the inverse.
So next time you see a story of how bad black/brown/Islamic immigrants are, remember it was your government that let them in and that your government are quite happy that you’re not scrutinising their expenses sheet and what bills their supporting in Westminster.
Also, you and your mates can make all the jokes about Palestinians you want but any normal person will know that what is happening there isn’t funny in the least.
I’d like to believe that we could have the enablers of this genocide brought to book in something similar to the Nuremberg Trials, no matter how long it takes.
Whats’ sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.
Bearing in mind Starmer’s inane and naive announcement today, it might be time for Israel to return the favour, by announcing it will recognise a two state solution in Britain, by declaring its suport for Scotland’s independence, in September.
One supposes that Starmer has yet to have this possibility put in front
of him.
Mr Trump might not be entirely averse to such a suggestion, he loving Scotland so much, and having left Scotland just today after a short ‘private’ visit.