The whole Scottish situation has got to the point now, that as soon as one of them comes onto the TV, I reach for the remote to Fast Forward. The record has got stuck in the groove, whingeing has become the norm and they are determined that we will pay the price for them not getting their way.
Whichever of the candidates for Leader of the Labour Party espouses joining up the Opposition parties ( SNP, LibDems and possibly the Greens ) into a United Front, will lose my vote for definite, and those of many others too. They would be off with the fairies if they think that they could either control or co-erce the SNP into a collaborative regime for their united ends.
There are the occasional Scottish voice that speaks sense, one was either on Politics Live recently, or Question Time, I can’t recall which. I yearn for more of them.
JC was not wrong and what we REALLY need is more Marxism.
You HAVE to be joking, Graham!! Momentum scare the crap out of me and are the reason JC became un-electable, not taking into account his blatant anti-nationalism ( to be clear, that’s his anti-UK stance and pro anybody ( Gadaafi, IRA, HAMAS etc, etc) that has p*ssed off the majority of sensible UK citizens. How anybody who took pride in being a rebel, never voting with his party line, and then being proud to be leader of a mainstream political party, could ever think that was anything other than cant hypocrisy, beggars belief.
Blaming Brexit for their defeat in the 2019 GE is to ignore the real reasons and avert eyes from a necessary stringent, effective, inward look.
He is why I have felt dis-enfranchised for these last three years and ended up voting Tory ( admittedly in a safe Tory seat, so that salved my conscience a little, or at least took the bad taste out of my mouth ).
The Rebecca Long-Baileys of this world that give JC 10 out of 10 on his report card are deluding themselves. They say we have to look forward for a solution, not back, referring to commentators that say they should look in Blair’s direction for the salve to our ( Labour ) current woes.
We need a Centrist Labour Party that either falls back on, or at the very least comes from, traditional Labour values.
I have high hopes for Lisa Nandy, who worked supremely hard across party lines ( while JC and his ilk were playing games and quoting their 6 criteria ) to try and get some sanity re-instated during the end of TM’s reign and the start of Boris’s. However, even she raises my doubts when she openly talks of open borders/free movement and includes giving extended members of the families of migrants the same rights – it’s the extended members part that worries me most.
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