Scottish Labour – a parcel of rogues

LEAH GUNN BARRETT

The new Scottish Labour MP Michael Shanks will speak at the Scotland in Union Burns supper later this month. Quelle surprise. 

During the by-election campaign Shanks said the constitutional debate was something ‘we have to completely ignore’ because it’s too divisive. Yet he’s voicing full-throated support for the failing union, because those are his orders from London. Scottish Labour is controlled by its English masters and if Shanks and his fellow Scots MP Ian Murray don’t fall in line with the unionist ‘better together’ lies, they can’t be members of the English Labour club with all its remunerative perks. 

As a reward for his fealty, Starmer quickly elevated Shanks to the shadow office of Scotland minister, where he’ll do everything in his power to keep Scotland imprisoned while collecting his fat parliamentary salary. 

Shanks has probably not reflected on the irony of speaking at a Burns supper. Robbie Burns would call Shanks and his motley crew out for what they are – a parcel of careerist rogues, selling out Scotland for English gold.

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4 thoughts on “Scottish Labour – a parcel of rogues”

  1. By election turnout 40%.

    Another GE soon?

    People who support Independence need to turnout to vote. For Independence supporting Parties. SNP?

    Use or lose it. The power is in the people’s hands. Out the Tories unionists go.

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  3. When it eventually dawns on more Scots that Scotland is England’s last colony,perhaps they will see these representatives of England’s political parties for what they really are.
    Their main purpose is to ensure that Scotland remains under London rule at whatever cost.
    Little or no interest in improving the lives of ordinary Scots except by trotting out that well trodden propaganda line that without England,Scotland is nothing and of course that there is no difference between a worker in Wick from one in Wolverhampton.
    That doesn’t apply to workers in Warsaw who are deemed to be foreigners.
    English imperialism.

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