Liz S
Who are Labour and what are they for ?
Well most of us in Scotland worked out the answers to those Q’s ages ago and now some in England are finally catching up to what we already knew.
I mean think about who once were MP’s in the Labour party and who still are Labour MP’s in the Labour party and then think about who are some of the supposed new faces that were elected as Labour MP’s last year in the UK GE. (new faces ? Douglas Alexander ? Johanna Baxter ?, Blair McDougall ?, Scott Arthur ?, Martin McClusky ?, Torcuil Crichton ? , Pamela Nash ?) .
Without doing a full bio of some of the former Labour MP’s who were blatant in how Tory they really were , we can see how, in the past, they did not deserve anyone’s vote as those supposdley representing the Labour party , given these following named MP’s condensed bios , which read like the excerpts from what could be referred to as the ‘Bad Bunch of Politics’.
Caroline Flint – lost her seat as Labour MP when she tried to out Tory the Tories in going full Brexiteer, her constituents then decided ‘let’s vote Tory instead of voting for our current and existing Labour MP to once again represent us at WM as she is now merely nothing more than a pound shop Tory’. She then lost her seat in the 2019 UK GE. I’m amazed she also never got a life peerage (from a Tory PM) as to listen to her now , as she does the rounds in various TV ‘News’ programmes, both mainstream & rogue, she could not be more Tory if she was wearing a blue rosette with the word ‘Tory’ written on it. She has now passed the point of being more extreme than many extremists. (Mind you the new Tory PM Sir Keir Starmer could still award her with a peerage for still being a good Tory).
Ian Austin – now a Baron , thanks to Boris Johnson awarding him a life peerage. Ian hated Corbyn and loved Tony Blair. Ian was a Tory who was elected as a Labour MP as his constituency was a Labour one, so that was as Labour as Ian could get. Ian eventually stood down as a Labour MP and became a Independent (Tory) MP as Corbyn, the then Labour leader was just too Labour for Ian, now Ian is in the HOL and he sits as a non affiliated (Tory) Peer.
John Mann – now also a Baron , thanks to another Tory PM, Theresa May , awarding him a Life Peerage, he has an almost carbon copy history to Ian Austin, as he too hated Corbyn as Labour leader, it was, I think, the ‘Labour’ part that irked him. Though he stated that his reason for leaving Labour was the anti Semitism within the party going ‘unchecked’ , he said, with the supposed lack of action from Corbyn , reality of course was that Corbyn was way too socialist as a Labour leader and politician and I think that was what Mann particularly disliked. In 2019 he, Mann, did not stand again as a ‘Labour’ MP instead he took up a role in the Tory government as their antisemitism advisor, he too was a non affiliated (Tory) Peer, however in May 2024 he was once again given the LABOUR whip. (as a Tory Ha Ha , because the new Labour party under Sir Keir Starmer are now more Tory than the actual Tories, thinks John Mann obviously, as do many of us in Scotland think so as well).
Kate Hoey – now a Baroness, thanks to Tory PM Boris Johnson, Kate was more pro Brexit than Nigel Farage and she was another one who made the , now proven to be, fake claims about Brexit, then she ran away and got a cushy number in the HOL. Check out her Wikipedia page to then ask ‘How the H did she become a Labour MP’ or were we all missing the obvious flaws (and Tories) within Labour via people like Kate and the others. Boris Johnson appointed her as the UK’s trade envoy to Ghana. She left the Labour party in 2020 and is now a non affiliated (Tory) Peer.
John Woodcock – now also a Baron, his bio is also similar to Mann’s and Austin’s in relation to his hostility to Corbyn as Labour leader. Woodcock resigned in 2018 as a Labour MP and became an independent (Tory) , Woodcock urged people to vote Tory in 2019 (as did Ian Austin) , he , like Austin, was then rewarded by Boris Johnson in them both being awarded their Life Peerages, Woodcock became the Tory government’s Independent Adviser on Political Violence and Disruption in 2020, he now also sits as a non affiliated (Tory) Peer.
Gisela Stuart – now a Baroness, also appointed as a Life Peer by Boris Johnson. She too supported Brexit. She left parliament in 2018 and she was given a role by the Tories as the Tory Chair of an executive agency of the UK Foreign Office dedicated to conflict resolution in international relations in October 2018. She was initially a non affilated (Tory) Peer but now sits as a cross Bencher (Tory) peer and in the 2019 UK GE she stated she was voting Tory but incredibly she remained a member of the Labour Party after the election . Of course she was voting Tory , after all if you are a Tory then that’s what you vote for in elections (while hiding in the Labour party as still being a member) . Duh.
So the above is not an extended bio of the above former ‘Labour’ MP’s now sitting comfortably in the HOL thanks to two Tory PM’s (May & Johnson, all of their real former party leaders in all but party name) and if you look carefully you will see way too the many uncanny similarities in their brief bio histories of part of their political careers, that kinda proves that they were either , when in the Labour party, the ‘enemies within’ or the real Labour (Tory) party that gave us Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and now Sir Keir Starmer.
BTW Ian Austin was a political advisor to Gordon Brown, when Brown was Labour Chancellor.
John Woodcock worked as an aide to Gordon Brown when he , Brown, was the Labour PM.
Just sayin !
Some current Labour MP’s and too some newly elected ones seem to also be fitting into the very same molds as the above lot comfortably fitted into, that is being and acting like Tories in all but party name.
Vote SNP in 2026 or we could have some kind of version of the Tory party ruling over Scotland for far too many years to be bearable for us.
Why does the above matter in relation to former Labour (INO) MP’s, well I think it matters because those types of MP’s still exist with the Labour party.
The career progression for many of them is to always go against the Left within the Labour party (who are in the minority) and so always support more the right wing part of Labour (aka the new Tory party).
Then if they, as Labour MP’s, do as their told and always support the party then eventually they may get some kind of government position, either as a Government Minister, a Junior Minister or Parliamentary Secretary to a government Minister and then they may even get to be party leader and then become the Labour PM.
Then they could eventually end up in the HOL which is a place where unelected bureaucrats get to make more decisions than some of those that we elect as SNP MP’s in Scotland ( or indeed as our Scottish government).
That’s why it matters now and in the future.
Liz S
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Ms Baxter is my MP. This article prompted me to look her up on Wikipedia.
Two things struck me.
My wife and I, independently and on different issues, have tried to contact her. Neither of us has received any response.
My wife tried to call. Phone line faulty. So, when she found herself passing the office, my wife thought she’d pop in. Door entry system faulty, with a notice advising folk to phone. The interesting thing is: her husband is an award winning PR and comms guy, Chairman of a big PR co.
Her wiki page says “…Baxter funded her way through university by working at a call centre.” Anyone reading this would perhaps be inclined to believe that she ‘self-financed’ her studies. Maybe she did. More likely though, that like all the other students of her age, she had her course fees paid. Given her age, she probably started uni in 1997. Hmmm. Who was in Government? So, like most students after the removal of non-repayable maintenance grants, she had a part-time job. Words are fascinating. Some might conclude that this statement on Wiki is an obfuscation. But then, her husband would know this.
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Ditto !
She is my MP as well – and I have emailed her office on several burning issues ( WFP , WASPI , Two-Child Cap , Trump’s visit etc… ) but have received no reply to my questions . I used to receive an acknowledgement that my emails had been received – but now I don’t even receive that courtesy !
The People’s Party my a*se !
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Any thoughts on Lisa Cameron ?
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Lisa Cameron ?
No one goes from any party in the UK to then defect to the Tory party and then expect to keep their credibility.
I mean she knew that the worse possible party she could have defected to was the Tory party, as that would get more negative press for the SNP.
As to her claiming she was bullied.
Well the Tory party have been subject to many ‘bullying allegations’ ranging from their MP’s to their Government ministers. All of which were well known via media coverage and also discussed and promoted online too.
So did Lisa Cameron live in a cave, that she was oblivious to all of this bullying within the Tory party aka her new preferred party. (same one she was too feart to have a by-election in – as a Tory- as she just decided not to stand in the next GE).
She defected to the Tory party in October 2023.
Tory Bullying allegations prior to her defection to them.
28 November 2015, Grant Shapps stood down as minister of state due to allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party.
4 February 2020 , Priti Patel , Tory government minister, accused of bullying by senior civil servant Sir Philip Rutnam, who resigned his position.
April 2020 , Former Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski bullied parliamentary committee staff as he struggled with IT issues during the first lockdown, he was given a one day suspension from parliament. The incident occurred after Kawczynski was unable to join a virtual meeting due to “technical difficulties” and afterwards he was “rude, aggressive and impatient” to staff members and made “critical and untruthful comments” about them in a WhatsApp group.
April 2023 , Dominic Raab resigned after eight formal complaints about Mr Raab’s behaviour as a minister. The bullying complaints, which involved 24 people, relate to Mr Raab’s previous periods as justice secretary and foreign secretary under Boris Johnson, and his time as Brexit secretary under Theresa May. Raab had engaged in an “abuse or misuse of power” when foreign secretary, and “acted in a manner which was intimidating” towards officials at the Ministry of Justice. An inquiry “dismissed all but two of the claims levelled against him”.
October 2023 (same month/year Lisa Cameron joined Tory party as being bullied by SNP she claimed) ex Tory MP Peter Bone was recommended by the Parliament’s Behaviour watchdog to be suspended for six weeks for bullying and sexual misconduct.
So if Lisa Cameron wanted to not be bullied or be associated with a party that had bullies in it, then she perhaps should not have joined the Tory party.
Also it is my understanding that she stated it was because of her “Faith” that she was being bullied in the SNP , and all of the rogue media took up her story, the same rogue media who made a song and dance about Kate Forbes religious beliefs, absolute hypocrites that they are, as in the sh*te UK media , as all reported her story and what they said was the toxic SNP, i.e. the Torygraph, the (totally un)Scottish Daily Express, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Record, The Times, The Mirror, The BBC , SKY News, Talk TV, GB News etc etc
Hope that partially answers your Q groaver , I could say more, but is it not a tad strange how so much bullying went on in the party she defected to (Tories), prior to her defecting to them, yet it seemingly was no big deal for Ms Cameron with them but it was a big deal for her with (supposdley and allegedly) the SNP being supposed Bullies ?????
Vote SNP in 2026, to show Ms Cameron what’s what aka reality . (After all the SNP are a political party and not a religious group).
Liz S
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Two names missed out Baroness Alexander and Curran joining there pal Jack Mac all on the gravy train which Starmer said he would get rid of.
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What are Labour and who are they for?
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” Who are Labour and what are they for ? ” – Bluntly, now, themselves.
Politicians used to be elected on their word to keep their electorate on-side throughout their tenure, yet after the post-war boom of ‘we’re all in this together’, it soon reverted to the 5 yearly circus act and increasingly disappointment, to the present of ” you’ve made your mark, now f.off, you’re irrelevant “.
Labour lost the plot a long time back, it’s time they were buried in it….
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The last, and only, Labour Gov was the Atlee Gov.
After that they had the whiff of the leather from the Ministerial limos and they would fashion there policies to keep it there.
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Thanks Liz, excellent article. Yep Starmer’s Labcons’ ‘CHANGE’ that he repeated day in day out before last years so called election, turned out to be a vote for the same as his Tory pals’ administration and in fact as kid starver Starmer has since told us, ‘WORSE’! Things…can only get ‘worse’…
SNP needs to make sure to vet any candidates for the election next year very carefullly, it would be easy for the Brit state to infiltrate the party with some rogues posing as pro independence. Excuse the capitals,
When Brown was chancellor for TEN years, I later heard that it was his policy to NOT inform people about DLA (disability Living Allowance back then) even if they might be eligible, and that it was always therefore at least 1/3 underclaimed given the pot of £’s that was allocated for such specific support!
They denied people support who might have needed it, and that affected me personally,
(I had no clue what it was or that it existed to help struggling families impacted by disability!) but more importantly impacted on my sons who have autism. I will never forgive Labour, the Labour council, the Labour education dept in the council, and especially greedy troughers like Brown and Blair.
The thought of Labour taking control of Holyrood again is quite frankly terrifying, it’s bad enough they control several councils in Scotland in coalition with their best pals the Tories and LibDems. England HQ’d poloitical parties control Scottish councils, and the oens in Edinburgh are wrecking the city and wasting vital £’s on vanity projects etc.
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“The thought of Labour taking control of Holyrood again is quite frankly terrifying, it’s bad enough they control several councils in Scotland in coalition with their best pals the Tories and Lib Dems”
Yep a real coalition of chaos, that’s what happens when you get into bed with Labour.
They, Labour, even suspended two of their Edinburgh Councillors for not voting with the Tories against the SNP.
Of course the media never emphasise these matters as they know it would potentially disadvantage Labour with (some) Scottish voters and perhaps potentially gain an advantage for the SNP….that is a big NO NO in media land.
Liz S
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MSM Monitor Tweet on ‘X’
“Why is the BBC headlining a report, which found so called ‘childcare deserts’ in England, as ‘Britain’s nursery problem’? If you find childcare deserts in England then it’s England’s nursery problem”
So who are the BBC in Scotland and what are they for ?
Well surely we know by now that the remit of the BBC in Scotland is not to communicate ‘news where we are’ but to promote ‘propaganda on behalf of others elsewhere’.
The article that MSM Monitor refers to is in the BBC website in their ‘In Depth’ section.
The article states:
“We have the one of the most expensive systems in the world… today I want to reform our childcare system”. These words, spoken by the then-chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the 2023 Spring Budget, were a beacon of hope for thousands of parents paying an average of almost £15,000 a year to nurseries and childminders”
(“We” but not “We” as in the whole UK but clearly this is an article on the “Childcare system” and “Childcare deserts” in England).
The headline is to suggest that all of Britain is failing when it is a story rthat is clearly relating to England only , based on the examples they use as to cities/towns in their article, all based in England, and too they referenced it is in England .
Apparently though the rule is that if #Bad in England it must be communicated as somehow #BritainBad.
If it is bad in Scotland then it will be Scotland that is noted in their headline.
If bad in England if will either be referred to in their headline as ‘Britain’, the ‘UK’ or be non specific as to where they are referring to , until, that is, you read the text within the article.
The article then continues in stating:
“The promise was to “transform the lives of thousands of women” and “build a childcare system comparable to the best”.
“Two years on, the rollout of what’s commonly known as the “free hours” scheme in England is almost complete”.
“Over the last five years, access to childcare in England has declined. At the same time demand is increasing”
“A report by the regulator and inspector of early years, Ofsted, found that deprived areas that have lower than average incomes are disproportionately affected by persistently low access to childcare”.
“Doncaster is a “childcare desert”, defined as an area where parents have faced low childcare accessibility over time. There are 17 childcare places there for every 100 children”.
“The BBC has found that 23 council-run nurseries, 16 Sure Start centres and 12 maintained nursery schools, which offer funded hours, are either under review, being privatised or in the process of closing across England”
“Staffing was one of the main reasons given. Finding suitable trained staff remains a real problem for the sector”.
Someone tell Jackie Baillie because she is under the (false) impression, or rather she is promoting a false impression , that all services in Scotland are the ones within the UK that are lagging behind services elsewhere in the UK.
That is where one is supposed to assume that elsewhere in Britain or UK, where other political parties govern (Labour in Wales and UK/England) , then everything is just tickety-boo apparently, yet they are so so so very much not. (as per all of the evidence in abundance).
Vote SNP in 2026 as a first step to removing people like Jackie Baillie from our politics as she has no real ambition for Scotland other than for it to be controlled by her party at HQ level, who are a terrible UK (and Welsh) government and whose “mission” is to make Scotland as sh*te as the other nations that they , as a party, govern within the UK, as in Wales and the UK (England).
Liz S
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Labour always used to try and fool Scotland. Scotland always used Scottish votes to get into Westminster. Scotland voted Labour to keep out the Tories. Thatcher ruined the economy.
Until the SNP can along and blew the unionists out of the first position. Younger ones now support the SNP and Independence. SNP have been even more successful.
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So I had a wee look at what Labour Peer Baroness Curran has been saying in the HOL since her miraculous return to politics , not BTW returning to Politics via a democratic decision, but via a warped process that rewards losers like her , who in a past election had lost their seat as an MP , then their party leader parachutes them into the HOL for them to then ride the Gravy Train .
I had a look via the UK Parliament site under Margaret Curran which tells you various information on specific MP’s, Lords etc including their ‘Speaking Contributions.
There was a debate in the HOL on “Scotland: New Nuclear Power Generation” on Tuesday the 18 March.
So another Labour unelected Peer Lord Foulkes stated:
“To ask His Majesty’s Government what discussions they plan to have with the Scottish Government regarding the extension of new nuclear power generation to Scotland”
The response he got was :
“My Lords, Scotland’s policy on new nuclear energy projects is a matter for the Scottish Government. We remain open to discussions with the Scottish Government on nuclear energy’s future in Scotland. In the meantime, we welcome EDF’s recent decision to extend Torness’s operation to March 2030”.
Foulkes then stated:
“My Lords, I agree that we should respect the role of the Scottish Government, but surely now is the time to stop pussyfooting around, when the Scottish Government say that they are quite willing to accept in the future electricity generated by nuclear in England. Given that energy is a reserved area, surely we should look at ways of stopping the blockers in Scotland, as well as in the rest of the United Kingdom. Will the Minister have a look at it”?
Once again Foulkes, a Labour Peer and also formerly an MP in Scotland , wanting to see Scotland toe the line , do what it’s telt and then he has the cheek to suggest that we , Scotland , are “willing to accept in the future electricity generated by nuclear in England” yet he conveniently (and deliberately) ignores the electricity that is currently (pun intended) going from Scotland to England via a “Super Cable”. Also ignoring the future energy where the capacity and potential for renewable energy in Scotland is going to see England relying on us for their future Green energy.
Then Baroness Curran, another unelected Labour Peer, five minutes in the HOL and already she is scheming for Labour in Scotland. Her contribution was this , in this ‘debate’ in London in the the second Chamber (Pot) aka HOL , regarding an English UK government trying to impose Nuclear onto Scotland aided by useful idiots like Foulkes & Curran.
She stated :
“My Lords and Ladies, I speak as a former planning Minister in the Scottish Government. Does the Minister agree that the best way to address this case is not more conflict with the Scottish Government but promoting the argument for nuclear power in a positive way—and, perhaps, working hard so that Anas Sarwar becomes First Minister of Scotland and we can resolve this problem”?
So a plot to “resolve a problem”?
Is honest opposition to Nuclear in Scotland seen as a ‘problem to resolve’ with the solution being to plot to get Sarwar elected as the next Scottish (INO) FM in 2026 and then apparently that’s the problem solved, for the UK government that is , but not for the people in Scotland though .
A plot to get what will be a Labour UK YES man in Scotland aka Anas Sarwar planted as the new FM in Scotland so that Labour HQ gets to do anything it wants both to and in Scotland, including perhaps stealing more territory from Scotland and perhaps selling off more Scottish assets and Scottish resources to foreign companies. Bleed Scotland dry to keep the likes of Foulkes & Curran in luxury at our expense.
Now I see why Curran , still bitter, was parachuted into the HOL by Starmer as he knew she would be another useful idiot (as Foulkes has been ad well in his time in the HOL) that would always act against Scotland’s best interests on behalf of her Labour party , her UK and also very much her own self interest too.
Vote SNP in 2026 to show her, Curran, and Foulkes too that their contributions in our affairs in Scotland are neither wanted nor needed. As Scotland only wants the contributions of those who seek to do what’s best for Scotland, as opposed to those who, like Curran & Foulkes, interfere in our Scottish affairs to only work on behalf of another hostile government in another country to benefit their interests only. Which then ends up being to Scotland’s detriment but they do not care.
Liz S
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The desperation of both main UK parties to foist nuclear on Scotland is obvious, but the perverse argument that England would produce nuclear energy and Scotland would be prepared to import it, can equally be flipped to demand England construct the equivalent of hidro and renewables first.
By far the greater puzzle though, is where England’s mysterious bounty of nuclear energy thought to be coming from, given the threat of rolling blackouts facing the grid this summer ?
The problem for all of the UK is lack of investment in the grid ( bottlenecks equally apply in Scotland ), identified many decades back with HMG et al doing sod all about it since.
It’s not just a case of throwing up some pylons and cable, though you wouldn’t know it from news reports of objections in England – Specify and order up the kit for either end today, and you might just see it 6-10 years.
It’s all of it smoke and mirrors for Westminster governments who haven’t managed to organise a pissup in a brewery, even though Ffoukesake’s preference would be a distillery – But when the blackouts begin causing chaos across England, you can bet Bowie will be trotting out the bullshit on SMRs being blocked by the Scottish Government, yet another smokescreen…
As aside, I hadn’t realised Hunterston had plans for ‘liquid air’ energy storage on site until I heard it quoted in a discussion – The claims for it are frankly staggering https://highviewpower.com/news_announcement/highview-launches-second-phase-of-its-long-duration-energy-storage-ldes-programme-with-2-5gwh-power-plant-at-hunterston-ayrshire/ but a hell of a lot more believable than SMRs….
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Great comment Bob.
The ‘Scottish’ Tory, Labour and Lid Dems Peers in the HOL just duplicate what the ‘Scottish’ Tory , Labour and Lib Dem MP’s in the HOC do.
That is where they act as stooges for their respective UK parties against Scotland to try to reinforce the false message that under the SNP, as the Scottish government, everything is failing in Scotland.
The fact that they know that is not the case as they are fully aware that elsewhere in the UK many things are indeed worse and also are truly being failed by other political parties , like say Labour, who govern elsewhere (Wales and now the UK) and also in the past the Tories who formerly governed in the UK (and in England).
Well, the fact that they have to always lie , that is then the shame that they must all have to constantly carry , if indeed they are capable of feeling any shame, which I doubt.
However if we had a real Scottish media that defended Scotland and also supported it then many of these blatant lies and pure political propaganda would then be exposed. As would those who are spreading them.
However we do not have a widespread actual Scottish media that does this, as instead what we have is a media, whose HQ’s are in another country , and who, as a media , are complicit with all of those UK opposition parties who are constantly spreading all of the lies and propaganda against Scotland .
Indeed they , opposition parties , are only able to spread all of their misinformation and political propaganda via the same media that we, here in Scotland, are most unfortunate in being able to access as ‘our’ supposed media in Scotland.
What Scotland is being subjected to is an orchestrated and a constant British Nationalist gaslighting exercise from sources such as political parties, media and also others who all see it as being in their best (financial) interests that Scotland stays within the UK.
I hope more people in Scotland do vote SNP in 2026 to show those who do this that we can resist their propaganda and gaslighting exercises.
Liz S
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As we (rightly) ask Q’s about Labour then let us also not forget to mention the Tories too.
The BBC website has an article under Scottish politics (third article)
“Tory leader will not attend anti-far right summit”
And this is news ?
Was the Pope a Catholic ?
“Russell Findlay claimed the event was “not required” and accused John Swinney of using the meeting to “deflect from the SNP’s dismal record”.
“Not required” which translates as why would we, as Tories, attend a summit that also targets us and our party ?
Also “”deflect from the SNP’s dismal record” ?
Well is that not what Russell Findlay and his Tory colleagues actually did, as in they always used to do that with their UK party, as in “deflect from the Tory UK government’s dismal record and also their many , way too many, political scandals”.
“In his letter, Findlay said the independence movement was “responsible for sowing division while seeking to blame others for your government’s many failings”.
Of course let’s not mention that his party, the Tories, being on the ‘UK side’ were “responsible for sowing division via Brexit” , that still exists as a division, while they, the Tories sought to “blame others for their many failings as a Tory UK government”.
Scotland is still suffering economically from what was, and still is, a terrible Tory decision as a Tory policy, as in Brexit, that their Better Together allies, the Labour party, have decided to continue with as he new UK government.
I mean who is it, as a party, that is currently losing their elected Tory Councillors to the Reform UK party, well that would be Russell’s Tory party, with him as the so called ‘Scottish’ leader. So he has more to lose politically with the other right wing party, Reform UK, stealing his politicians and potentially also stealing votes from his party in 2026.
I guess Russell does not want to attend any summit like this as he would be acting against himself, his party and also all of those former colleagues who were elected as Tory Councillors but then perhaps saw what they assumed to be was the ‘writing on the wall’ for the Tory party, as in Reform UK being promoted as polling better than the Tories here in Scotland. (How many of these ex Tory Councillors now defected to Reform UK as Reform UK councillors may chance their luck in trying to get a seat , as an MSP, in 2026).
I think Russell Findlay recognises, or should I say that he hopes, that there is more that unites his Tory party with Reform UK than divides them, and so he sees them as a future ally in the parliament in Scotland against the SNP and also against Scottish independence. (so he hopes to “sow division” in the future with what he hopes will be his new allies , the Reform UK party).
Tories , like other UK parties , campaign for English political interests over Scotland.
Vote SNP in 2026 to show people like Findlay that we see through him and his BritNat party that fights to keep Scotland under the thumb of English politics that dominate their UK. Scotland no longer needs their brand of BritNat division .
Liz S
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Aye, it’s been dragged back from obscurity as a support act for the ” FM defends excluding Reform UK from anti-far right summit ” article for Councillor Thomas Kerr…
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