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By Liz S
Labour, as in Labour UK now, Lefties ?
That’s an embarrassment and also fake news.
Clearly Labour UK’s plans for the whole UK are looking very much like a plan for the “Few and not the Many”.
Which is , as an action, one that is the opposite of what actual “Lefties” would do if they were in power, in fact a real Labour “Leftie” was the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who wanted his Labour party to act for and to serve “the many and not just the few”.
Funny enough there are others who are in Mark’s profession who see Keir Starmer and Labour UK’s current actions and words as being more Reform-Lite which again is the opposite of “Lefties” , however Mark prefers , or rather chooses , to ‘not go there’.
It does also make you wonder what reference or term would Mark Smith use to describe Jeremy Corbyn , as in one of the actual “Lefties” that Keir Starmer and his current Labour party through out of the Labour party .
Labour threw Corbyn out of their party for a fake reason.
However everyone knew it was really because Corbyn was not right wing enough for the Labour party, or rather he , Corbyn, was considered by them to be one of the awful “Lefties” in the Labour party , which the latest version of the Labour party needed to get rid of and so finally dispel the notion that Labour were in any shape or form a party of ‘Socialists’.
I do agree though that Labour is another “Nasty party” but that is because they are embracing their nasty side (again) in copying the words and actions we would normally associate with other “Nasty parties” , like the Tories and the Reform UK party , who are both considered to be more right wing, or rather , like Labour now , they are also definitely never seen as being political “Lefties” either.
What is he, Mark Smith, up to ?
God knows , but I am sure it is not for the good of Scotland as a country or indeed with the intention of trying to contribute positively and honestly to what is really happening in Scottish politics, and also within the UK politically too, either now or in the future.
Liz S
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Ha Ha I should have re-read this comment I made on a previous thread.
“It does also make you wonder what reference or term would Mark Smith use to describe Jeremy Corbyn , as in one of the actual “Lefties” that Keir Starmer and his current Labour party through out of the Labour party”
“through out” ???
Shurely shome mishtake , as ‘threw out’ is the correct wording/description.
Though perhaps the incorrect word could have been used too.
Where “through out” his, Corbyn’s time in the Labour party, or rather in what was then, and also now too, the new version of Labour, thanks to many of their non “Lefty” MP’s, including Keir Starmer, we knew that Jeremy Corbyn , because of his “Lefty” credentials was then always ‘on the cards’ to be one that Labour “threw out” out of the party. Ha Ha
Liz S
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