Dame Jackie Baillie told her Labour council to ‘run now’, blame the SNP for Starmer’s betrayal cuts and make her still electable in 2026

According to Glasgow Live, two days ago:

The running of West Dunbartonshire Council has been thrown into confusion after the Labour administration resigned its leadership at the end of full council meeting. The shock announcement came following two frustrating hours for the Labour group which saw SNP councillor Karen Murray Conaghan elected as the new Provost of West Dunbartonshire, taking over from former Labour Provost Douglas McAllister who was recently appointed as MP for West Dunbartonshire.

Former Labour councillors June McKay and Danny Lennie, who had quit Labour during the week, both voted in favour of Councillor Murray Conaghan instead of Labour’s Depute Provost John Miller.

However, sources inside local Labour MSP, Dame Jackie Baillie’s team have leaked reports that she is desperate to hang onto her seat.

Baillie, the leaks revealed, with only a narrow lead over the SNP in 2021, and inside knowledge of what Starmer still has in his bag, fears Labour may have become toxic by 2026 and wants to try to blame the SNP for local cuts.

In telling the Labour councillors to stand down, it’s said Baillie re-used the the line she often heard parents of her early boyfriends say to their sons – ‘RUN, KEEP RUNNING! DON’T LOOK BACK!’

14 thoughts on “Dame Jackie Baillie told her Labour council to ‘run now’, blame the SNP for Starmer’s betrayal cuts and make her still electable in 2026”

  2. Aye it is possible Labour are in for a shock Holyrood 2026. Pensioners are more likely to vote. More austerity coming. People are totally fed up of Westminster mismanagement.

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    1. “Aye but ‘Scottish Labour’ will fix it with change.”

      Baillie will deflect and blame others for her parties shortcomings.

      and they don’t come any shorter than them.

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  3. if this is what labour is doing why is the SNP playing the game? Surely the best tactic is to force labour into leadership via council by election forcing them into leadership.

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  5. Ah but you forget.

    If Jackie Baillie really “wants to try to blame the SNP for local cuts”.

    Well Anas Sarwar , when recently interviewed by BBC Reporting about the Scottish government, stated :

    “Typical of the SNP always blaming someone else”

    So Labour in Scotland, via their own leader, apparently does not support the idea that blaming others as being an action that is ever appropriate or a valid defence .

    So it seems that he , Sarwar, needs to then have a word with his Deputy Ms Baillie, who yet again is about to expose him, Sarwar, as a political hypocrite if she does indeed “try to blame the SNP for local cuts”.

    He also might want to have a word with himself too as he is often heard to blame the SNP for all of Scotland’s woes as well.

    Of course he, Anas Sarwar, conveniently forgets that Labour at WM are currently deploying their own version of the ‘Blame Game’ in all of them, including Keir Starmer, blaming the previous Tory UK government for Labour at WM now failing to make the supposed “Changes” that they promised us all that they would make if/when in power within the UK.

    Wait a minute has Anas Sarwar not also blamed the Tories too for this same failure ?

    Clearly we are once again in the ‘Do as I say not as I do’ territory where double standards, hypocrisy and very much brass necks rule which let’s be honest Labour, as a political party, do tend to resort to as a known behaviour we often witness as being something coming from them in Politics within the UK.

    The point is will the public in Scotland see through this behaviour ?

    Also how much will the media in Scotland try to cover up this kind of behaviour by Labour both in Scotland and at WM.

    As to Jackie Baillie well her main focus is firstly her own political self interest, then her party’s and then the continuance of the UK as a state , to include Scotland within it of course .

    Scotland being the non partner in a fake Union in what is clearly four nations who are in no way regarded as equals within the UK by either pro UK politicians or by the UK media either.

    We all know who , via the UK politicians and and also via the UK media , is seen as the dominant nation within the UK .

    Indeed that one nation is regarded by many as the nation within the UK seen as being synonymous with the UK or Britain. (No clues as to whom I am referring to).

    Where UK politicians and the UK media often refer to it as being ‘the country or the nation’ when discussing something that is clearly only related to England and not connected with any other nation within the UK state.

    This same UK state that bestowed her, Jackie Baillie, with an Honour , as in she is now a Dame.

    The same Honours system which we all know many Labour politicians both strive to attain and also some expect one at the end of their political time as a politician within various political levels within the UK.

    Also I think before Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie start to accuse the SNP of ‘Playing politics’ it might be an epiphany for both of them if they referred to their own past and current behaviour.

    They both would then note how they, as so called politicians, have resorted to and relied upon often ‘playing politics’ themselves to sneakily and dishonestly try to get one over on the SNP. (Often aided by their client media both within and outwith Scotland).

    Labour both here in Scotland , in Wales and too at WM are very quick to and also good at blaming other political parties/governments within the UK for what Labour declares as being their, other parties, mistakes or failures/flaws .

    However Labour themselves , as a party and as government(s) in the UK, both fail to or refuse to , either acknowledge or recognise that other parties, at times, also then have that same right and also very very much so that same justification in highlighting the obvious weaknesses within the Labour party both as a political party and as currently those who are two governments within the UK.

    Labour really really really need to start to seeing themselves as others (clearly) see them.

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  6. Alone among ‘Scottish’ Labour, Damn Jakie is allowed her own foreign policy.   

    Imagine the look of horror on election night when fate catches up with MSP for the constituency of Trident.   Worth staying up for. 

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  9. Alas the way that Labours world works, when she realises the gemmes a bogie, oor Jaikie will be seated, ermine clad, between and betwix Lard Ffoulksakia and Dame Moan.
    Arise, Baroness Jaikie of the PorkPies, as she joins the ranks of those who have never done a hauns turn in their lives.

    Subsided food, drink, travel; support for ALL their kids and all heating costs met—on ALL their houses. The life of shameless hypocrites…….aka Labour politicians.

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    1. Sorry last one was me again reposting…..didn’t work when I did first time…anyhow worth posting twice….shows Labour as they were and are and always will be!!!

      JB

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