Professor John Robertson OBA
In 2023/2024:
Glasgow City Council’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) helped to build over 1,000 [1 011] additional affordable homes in the city in the past year. The original £78.687million grant from the Scottish Government was bolstered during the year by an additional £11.544million to focus on Strategic Acquisitions, and a further £3.825m from the Scottish Government to a final budget of £94.056million.
Birmingham City has nearly twice the population [1.16m] , thus revenue, of Glasgow City [622k], so all things being equal, might be expected to have built at least 2 000 new affordable homes, in the same year, but only built 312, between 6 and 7 times fewer:
If Labour cannot run a major city how can they be expected to run a country?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
O/T apologies
Alloa & Grangemouth Labour MP Brian Leishman is a Fraud !
This supposed Labour ‘rebel’ MP knows, and indeed has even said as much, that his party betrayed and lied to his constituents in Grangemouth , yet still today he campaigns on their , Labour’s , behalf.
5 Days ago on 7 April Brian Leishman tweeted this:
“Both the Tory and SNP governments knew about the planned refinery closure 5 years ago. Both the Tory and SNP governments did nothing to save the refinery in that time. Both the Tory and SNP governments let Scotland down by choosing to do nothing”.
Really ?
Yet look at what Brian’s party ,Labour, actually did or rather didn’t do to try to “save the Refinery” as the , checks bloody notes, new UK government in 2024.
That would be nothing.
Compared to what they and also Brian promised they would do if Labour were elected as the next UK government, when Labour and also Brian campaigned prior to the 2024 UK GE in that part of his constituency, Grangemouth, as a then Labour candidate.
As in they promised they would “Save the jobs at Grangemouth refinery”, but did not.
Now yesterday Brian Leishman has tweeted again:
“Parliament has been recalled. Hopefully to nationalise British Steel and take it under government control. The same should happen to the Grangemouth oil refinery. The government should control essential industries”.
“should happen to the Grangemouth oil refinery” ?
Has that ship not sailed Brian. Also has Brian Leishman not spoken to Anas Sarwar ?
He, Leishman, should speak to Anas Sarwar and Sarwar would tell Brian Leishman that Grangemouth Refinery was a “Private company”.
A “private company” that Labour then, when elected as the new UK government, financially supported when it came to a football stadium in England and a refinery in Belgium.
A “Private company” says Sarwar as a weak excuse as to why Labour apparently could not save Grangemouth Refinery when his Labour HQ became , checks bloody notes, the new UK government,.
Yet Brian knows that Sarwar has said this and yet he, Leishman, ignores this was said by Anas Sarwar as a weak and unacceptable excuse for both his and his party’s lies and betrayal to Grangemouth workers and constituency.
Instead Brian decides to tweet the above tweet on the 7 April, a tweet that lays all of the blame for Grangemouth refinery lost jobs on both the Tories and the SNP, as we all know how Labour just love to “blame others” while then also accusing “others” , like the Tories and the SNP , of always blaming everyone but themselves.
Labour’s infamous ‘Do as I say not as I do’ constant position.
Brian, still lying for Labour then and still betraying his Grangemouth constituents.
Brian also included a video in his tweet yesterday where he said:
“I’m at Edinburgh Airport waiting to fly down as parliament has been recalled this weekend. There’s a lot of speculation as to why, if it’s going to be a nationalisation announcement of Scunthorpe British Steel. Hopefully that is because it should be. Not only should British Steel be under government ownership , so should Grangemouth Oil refinery. If there’s an opportunity to speak this weekend in Parliament on that topic I’ll be taking it up”.
The video then ended with a big red Labour logo stating “Brian Leishman Labour”.
Brian Leishman knows that both he and his party Labour lied to and betrayed his constituents in Grangemouth, but still Brian Leishman is Labour through and through. Some ‘rebel’ he is.
I mean what could he , Leishman , do but appear to ‘rebel’ against his party, or rather play at being a ‘rebel’ when his party , Labour , did “nothing” to try and “save the Refinery” after they, Labour HQ, won the UK GE in 2024.
So in respect to “nationalisation” Brian Leishman says in his video that as well as Scunthorpe British Steel being nationalised then he says “so should Grangemouth Oil refinery” and also he says “If there’s an opportunity to speak this weekend” (in Parliament with this recall).
So if Grangemouth is not nationalised and if Brian does not get “an opportunity to speak this weekend” ?????
Then what ?
Well then Brian Leishman can add his solidarity with his party, Labour HQ , on behalf of the workers at Scunthorpe , as we all know where this Labour UK government’s priority lies and it is not with workers in Brian’s constituency in Scotland that’s for sure.
Or indeed , it appears, that Labour HQ’s priority , as the new UK government, is also not with anyone else , worker or otherwise, within Scotland as well !
I mean let’s be honest if Brian Leishman’s real priority and real focus was with Grangemouth then why and how is he still a Labour MP ? (others MP’s in other parties have defected from their previous parties for far far less than Labour has done- or rather not done- to and for part of Brian’s new constituency, Grangemouth)
Vote SNP in 2026 as it seems Brian Leishman, the so called Labour ‘Rebel’ MP , is still Labour in both his heart and his head and so when Labour HQ say to Brian Leishman “run” (back to the English parliament for the workers in an English constituency) Brian asks “How fast” or rather he just ‘runs for Labour HQ’ , in more ways than one.
Liz S
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Just written a comment about that very subject on Richard Murphy’s blog Liz, although not with your eloquence. Bloody lying hypocrites.
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You are 100% right Alex, Labour are lying hypocrites, always have been too.
However it seems that some voters in Scotland either pretend to see Labour differently from the Labour party that we see or they actually, as voters in Scotland, do regard them as being different, that is “different” as in better than other political parties , but to whom are they different to or better than Politically, that is in a supposed positive way, as that really does leave me feeling both confused and bemused that anyone still either pretends to or does either believe or thinks that in Scotland ?
Certainly they , Labour, are not better than the SNP and it is also becoming very apparent that they are most certainly no different from either the Tories or Reform UK as a political party, what with their uncanny similarity in both their rhetoric and also their aligned policies to both the Tories and Reform UK.
Labour have just become a pound shop version of both of the Tory party and the Reform UK party, perhaps even worse.
I think I need a long long break (for now) from adding comments about politics onto any political blogs, as in I need , like many others also do, a welcome and deserved respite from all of the absolute utter sh*te that is both UK politics and UK media.
Vote SNP in 2026 etc etc etc
Liz S
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WE NEED MORE OF THIS AXTION TO ‘TAKE BACK ‘
SCOTLANDS HERITAGE
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