By Liz S

The BBC are promoting this:

“Scottish Labour leader says the UK should re-join EU”

Is it a mere coincidence that Marra is stating this now, as in when his new Labour leader at HQ , Andy Burnham, is also supposedly keen for the UK to get closer to the EU and eventually re-join ?

No it is not.

In September Micahel Marra was interviewed by Politico.

In that interview he stated:

“What we do need is a closer relationship because we know the economic cost that’s resulted from Brexit. I want to see us doing that on a case-by-case basis”

“The people of Scotland did vote to remain”

However MSM Monitor in their ‘X’ account posted that:

“Michael Marra apparently wants to rejoin the EU. Last month he said he was against rejoining because Europe was mired in political instability and there was no realistic chance of favourable terms. So, who has ordered the branch manager to U-turn? Someone has”

Also MSM Monitor posted that:

“Will any reporter actually acknowledge that Michael Marra has U-turned on EU membership in just five weeks? Even Keir Starmer held out longer than that”

Then the BBC on 7 November added this onto their website:

“UK cannot ‘cherry pick’ EU single market deal, Barnier tells BBC”

“The EU’s former Brexit negotiator has warned that the UK cannot “cherry pick” which elements of the single market to which it subscribes, after Andy Burnham said he wanted to explore closer economic ties with Europe”.

Remember how after the 2016 EU Referendum vote when we had various Labour MP’s, and also MP’s from other parties, all shout down SNP politicians and the Scottish government when they, as SNP politicians, highlighted that Scotland voted to remain in the EU in 2016.

The response that was given to the SNP was that “It was a UK wide vote” .

I also remember how many Labour MP’s , when on BBC QT , would state that they voted to remain but that they respected and accepted the result to leave the EU and that this was the democratic decision that was made by the people.

Then in 2024 and beyond we had the former Labour leader and former UK PM, Keir Starmer, insisting that with Labour in charge of the UK they would then “Make Brexit work”.

Well they did not .

The mess and economic damage that Brexit has caused Scotland still exists and the loss of EU funding for Scotland has never been matched by any UK government .

Finally it also begs the Q as to how Labour thinks that it is acceptable to revisit the EU referendum after 10 years has lapsed , yet they do not see it as somehow equally acceptable to revisit the question on Scotland having another Scottish independence referendum , when the initial referendum on that Q was 12 years ago.

This is just yet another UK government wanting to cherry pick what they, as a UK government, assume that they are entitled to have and so then get, while also denying the same justified right for Scotland to get to pick and so then choose what we should also be entitled to do and so then have .

The SNP have consistently supported EU membership for Scotland, and in them taking that position they have been shouted down by Labour politicians.

Yet now that Labour , as a UK government with yet another new leader, are confronted with the economic reality of negative Brexit consequences , well they now think that they can erase all that they had previously argued against , that is in them previously arguing against the UK ever revisiting the Q of it re-joining the EU.

So Scotland and the SNP were right and Labour (and other parties) were wrong.

Though hell will freeze over before either Labour or the UK media would ever promote that as a fact.

Liz S