Does Douglas Alexander want to go back to the bad old days of Labour with far more crime, old folk too scared to walk home in the dark, infected blood supplies, fewer affordable homes, the toleration of sex worker rapes, increasing drug deaths, more derelict sites, more homelessness, more sepsis deaths and not even enough trees to feel good about walking among or does he mainly want to get back to fiddling his expenses?

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The Herald yesterday had:

Scotland has gone ‘backwards’ under SNP rule, Alexander to claim

Dog knows what he’s going to say, few care, I suppose, but he won’t be mentioning these:

More adults in Scotland feel safe walking home than under Labour and emergency admissions due to assault plummet

or this: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/09/25/as-bbc-uk-worries-about-it-in-england-anti-social-behaviour-in-scotland-plummets-to-half-what-it-was-under-scottish-labour-in-2007/

It’s not just Emma Caldwell – Still deeply misogynist Scottish Labour should hope the truth about how they failed to scrutinise police complacency over 300 rapes and assaults in 2005 never comes out
SNP Government brings 10 times more vacant and derelict land back into use than Labour ever did – will any Environment Correspondent tell you this? Fat chance
Vote Labour and get………“Catastrophe” , “fiascos” and “Scandals” going back for years
As UK Labour acts to worsen hospital postcode lottery fears in England with a league table, how Scotland’s hospitals are all pretty much the same – good, safe, reliable
As Audit Scotland and BBC Scotland find bad news on Glasgow have they ever told you how SNP-run Glasgow City builds more than SIX times as many affordable homes as Labour-run Birmingham City thanks to £94 million from SNP Government?
Watch out for Jackie Baillie telling us we need Martha’s Rule too but failing to tell you that hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?
Scotland builds far more affordable housing than England and far far more than Labour ever did but Shelter Scotland is back to suggest Scottish Government failure
Labour Wales cannot match Scottish FREE bus travel for the young but BBC Wales has only praise for the scheme unlike BBC Scotland in 2022
Sickening exploitation of own son’s drug death on behalf of Scottish Labour’s 2026 campaign when Up to 90% of Scotland’s drug deaths were among those who became addicted before the SNP came to power, more than 90% of nearly 30 000 referrals per year are treated within 3 weeks and more than half within only 1 week!
Thanks to SNP among the best paid in Europe with by far the smallest classes and the least anxious in the UK so why are teacher union leaders and media hiding strike action poll response rate to try to undermine SNP Government – loyalty to Labour?
Not just increasing breast cancer rates among mature women but now ‘terrifying and almost unbuildable’ – Sizewell C nuclear power station does not seem to worry Scottish Labour
In NHS Wales A&E after decades of Labour-control, three times as many wait more than 12 hours, twice as many wait more than 8 hours and nearly one third more wait more than 4 hours yet it’s ‘dangerous’ here?
As one tragic Sepsis death is milked by the media why don’t they tell you hospital acquired infections under the SNP are between a fifth and a half of the level in 2006, under Labour, an eighth of the level in England and a third of the level in Europe?
Sneaked out on Friday afternoon by UK Labour Government to successfully avoid ‘Scottish’ media coverage, 60 000 disabled Scots many on below national average wage, to be stripped of winter fuel payment by tax clawback
‘Huge pools of mystery sludge, leaking silos’ and shocking complacency only a few miles from Stranraer and the highest cancer level in Europe – Does Scottish Labour need a ‘cancer panic’ to wake it up to the risks of pursuing even more nuclear projects?

I think that will do.

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  2. Wee Dougie wants to go back to a time when Labour ruled Scotland and ” people did as they were telt !”

    When Labour inflicted grand schemes of PFI on councils and made £billions for their mates in business ;

    When Labour councillors were the best that money could buy – preferably in anonymous brown envelopes !

    When a Labour First Minister was so content with the Utopia they had created that he could send back Scottish money to Westminster as he couldn’t find anything to spend it on . ( was that why he got his peerage ? )

    When the Labour Government re-drew the sea boundary transferring huge areas of Scottish waters to English control .

    When dozens of Scottish Labour MPs were inserted into the House of Lords in order to abolish it …

    It’s CHANGE , Jim , but not as we know it …or want it !

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    1. Ah yes, but who was it now, (A. Darling?) sent a ton of Scotland’s money BACK to Westminister in London actually saying ‘nothing to spend it on in Scotland’.
      The money of Scotland, comes and goes hither and thither, back and forth, up and down the tracks, depending on the south Britain colonists’ narrative and scams of the day, week, month or year.
      It’ll get ‘worse’ if the colonists take full control of Holyrood again.

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  3. I agree with John Lawson above………..

    This site is invaluable to expose who it is , politically, that is trying to make Scotland not just “go backwards” but also trying to make Scotland fail….and that is down to political UK parties like the Labour party (and others also ).

    Anas Sarwar declared this year that the UK government were unable to help Grangemouth Refinery as it was a “private company” .

    Now we hear that the “private company” that is Jaguar Land Rover is to be given “UK government assistance” as now it is being reported that:

    The UK ” Government to guarantee £1.5bn JLR loan after cyber shutdown”………..”in a bid to support its suppliers as a cyber-attack continues to halt production at the car maker“……..

    So Car Makers – England – as all of the big Ports are in England.

    English jobs – English Ports – but “Business Secretary Peter Kyle said the loan, from a commercial bank, would protect jobs in the West Midlands, Merseyside and across the UK”

    “Across the UK“…….but in the places that he , Peter Kyle, specified, as in named, none of them were in Scotland…..as in the same Scotland that Keir Starmer declared would be at the “heart of his Labour government”…….mind you the supposed GB Energy company now currently has more jobs within London than it has within it’s supposed HQ in Aberdeen……now that’s worth specifying and so applying specific city names to…..

    I think we all know why Douglas Alexander was the perfect choice to replace Ian Murray….not because he is better or more competent….because being better or competent is not required for the position of SOS against Scotland …..nope….the lack of quality required for that UK job….. is to be an obedient servant to the party and only to the UK….which does beg the Question why then was Ian Murray sacked as surely he too was slavish as a British servant……….was is it because they knew their GE slogan of “Real Change” with Labour was now a lame duck in Scotland ….so what will they invent aka concoct , via Alexander, to try to con us Scots next year……..of course it will be #SNPBAD on steroids….in fact that is one Labour party slogan that has been a constant pre and post the 2014 Indy Referendum.

    Apparently Labour are never at fault, are never to blame and so their logic concludes that it is always ‘others’ at fault, and “others” that need to be blamed and so we, as voters, are supposed to adapt to that skewed logic when we vote in Scotland in all and any elections……

    Actually last year some voters here did do just that………in fact some within Scotland did vote for Labour , against what was surely for some, a case of them not using their best judgement…….and some chose to ignore the bad experiences that they had in the past with all of Labour’s lies………I mean some people in Scotland thought Labour were the better option to vote for in order to oust the Tories….now look at what is happening….Labour have replaced the Tory party in more ways than one……….as they, Labour, are now the new Tory party.

    Douglas Alexander can just do one……….a political dinosaur who chose his moment to return to politics in the UK……….when he knew that the Labour were finally, after years in the political wilderness , now seen as having a real chance of ousting a flagging Tory party…..he is the epitome of a political opportunist….who previously himself as a former politician was no stranger to a scandal linked to him……….

    I’ll backwards him !

    Liz S

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  4. Yes he does, he and his cabal do not care one jot about Scotland, the people of Scotland or democracy in Scotland. The BritNats’ agenda being to lie, control the narrative via their right wing media etc, and con the people of Scotland into submission, while escaping with the loot, ie, Scotland’s vast vast resources, revenues and wealth. Bob’s your uncle, all nice and easy peasy..unless…

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