The Unbearable Emptiness of Labour

Sir Stumblebore – policies here today, gone tomorrow, implacable supporter of Israeli genocide – Starmer is deleting all the reasons to vote for his party, and bowing to a destructive right-wing agenda. His ability to announce a new policy fit for a manifesto is overtaken by his ability to cancel it in double quick time. Of course, he won’t mention the billions stolen from Scotland each year via our natural resources unless to show he loves Scots. That would be like telling the truth to the people, and Labour needs Scotland’s wealth as much as the Tories to prop up England’s failing economy, just as it needed Scotland trees to build its warships to fight the Spanish.

Now Starmer finds himself at odds with his Scottish branch manager, Anas Sarwar, who calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza – something that mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu will ignore unless told by President Biden the US will block arms sales and send troops into Israel. Sarwar’s public difference with his boss is synthetic; a devise to fool Scots that Labour in Scotland can be more than a branch office for passing trade. Starmer has fired colleagues for their socialist sentiment, such as joining RMT picket lines in London to show solidarity with railway drivers. The idea he would then allow Starmer to take Labour in Scotland any old which way is delusional.

Labour can keep a single promise

I published a list of Labour’s trashed policies only days ago – link at foot of this article, it includes the national care service, abolishing the House of Lords, a wealth tax: a list that is out of date day by day, dumped in the incinerator of what Starmer and his ‘let’s spend a day in Scotland – colleagues assume late in the day are badly researched ideas they now call reckless promises. A big boy done them and ran away. Little Sunak gets all the blame, him and Liz Truss, for bankrupting the economy. I can remember the mess Labour left Scotland when the SNP under Alex Salmond took over.

How and why Starmere took to setting fire to his best policies is something of a mystery. At least the Labour peer Mike Watson who set fire to curtains in a Scots hotel had the excuse of being blind drunk. He was jailed for his dangerous mischief. Starmere is dangerous to Scotland because he offers us nothing but more bondage to London.

“Westminster squandered Scotland’s North Sea resouces” – Keir Starmer

There is no getting away from it, Labour party identified good, sound proposals under Jeremy Corbyn, but the poor blighter couldn’t get out of Edinburgh and Glasgow quick enough after a day’s visit. Starmer was the main figure who at first supported Corbyn and then helped to have him removed as leader. Since then, Starmer has summarily destroyed Corbyn’s policies. The English welcomed Corbyn’s policies. The British State hated them. Why English voted for Labour in recent by-elections can’t be down to short-term memory. The green prosperity plan, arguably its centrepiece policy, has been gutted like a fish. Starmer thinks this delays Armageddon. A dozen other policies are in an alley wheelie bin somewhere, probably still smoldering from being soaked in petrol and lit.

We want rid of colonial rule, all of it, thrown out of our institutions and places of political power, and sent packing to their motherland where they will be a lot happier. Labour and Tory, as folk are apt to say, are to cheeks of the same arse.

Labour’s last chance

I read more and more people saying this is Labour’s last chance: if it cannot change our lives for the better, it will die as a political force. Well, it has already proved how disastrous and thieving it can be when governing Scotland. And I am sure if in power in England it will deny Scotland legally due repartions when independence is up and running.

It’s years of rule over Scotland – promoted by its proponents and right-wing press – as its natural home – were years of dire poverty for Scotland, little or no economic progress, a voting system only used in independent countries guaranteed to keep colonial watchdogs in Holyrood Parliament, many without being elected, poor housing a national scandal.

Only Tony Blair gave Scotland anything, he gave us our Parliament back but on a severely limited devolutionist basis and regretted it immediately. “The nationalists will use it to ask for more.” Well, yes! It’s called social justice.

One of Michael Shaw Shanks’ first speeches included a promise to kill independence dead

Labour’s recent conference in Glasgow was a classic example of its kind, platitudinous, claims of nectar tomorrow, falsification of our education system as poor, lies of our national health service in ‘chaos’. Labour has hammered those two falsehoods at us incessantly for two years, and now with greater ferocity this election year, doing it knowing some people will believe the sloganeering without asking for a shred of evidence.

The Tory party reduces our annual Barnett Formula year in, year out, Labour exploits this as if the Scottish Government (ScotGov) leaches money on international embassies or travel. ScotGov is not allowed to amass debt. It is legally bound to work with the annual sum UKGov gives us.

Labour’s loyalty to all things London in economy and culture is the hatchet that cleaves right through its case to govern as much as a rabbit hutch. Removing radical policies of equality is cretinous, what’s left is a huge democratic hole waiting to be filled by garbage parties for England as much as Scotland and Wales. Labour leaves in its wake ways to a take-over by the far-right, the odious racist Reform party, (promising to stand candidates in Scottish constituencies) and in England the small but vociferous British national gangs. Groups who seek authoritarian rule are the first to pick up the slack and fill a vacuum. They see the rest of us complaining nothing is done to fix this or that; they leap upon those grievances and exploit them.

Last man standing

Labours only Scottish MP, Ian Murray, boasts Labour can turn Glasgow red again. Glasgow, the great city that voted overwhelmingly for independence, the poor and the middle class knew they had nothing to lose but the strangle ligature of London rule. Here we have Labour – who criminally saddled the incoming SNP administration with millions of pounds in debt, trying to convince Glaswegians Labour is a morally reformed party, and not another colonial adjunct to the Tories.

The anger over an Edinburgh Castle esplanade cafe retaining the offence name of Redcoat after a long refurbishment is to day’s excuse or the pile-on of racists telling Scots to shut up, our history is of no consequence, we are not the victors who write the history books or keep the spoils. Labour activists were among the first to urinate on an ethnic outrage. Neil Mackay, the Herald’s Ulsterman’s pretendy indie supporter who dislikes indie supporters intensely calling Scots ‘small people’ in a column of wind and piss. He misses the point as a man misses a bus. It is our culture we wish to protect, our very existence. A red jaicket is in itself meaningless. It was what the Redcoats did to Scots that is the contemptuous aspect of a commercial cafe appropriating a piece of our history, condemned as an American car maker is derided for appropriating the ethnic tribal name of Cherokee to sell jeeps. Mackay is a small man of small brain.

Mackay provides Labour with their get-out clause, claiming to protect Scots while actually repressing their civil and constitutional rights. The great fraud is perpetuated by party and press. Be nice, both ask, conform, and we will give you a treat.

Devine intervention

Even our lauded historian Sir Tom Devine, erroneously points out we have a regiment that has a ceremonial redcoat. And the controversy comes about on the anniversary date of another attempt at genocide perpetrated by English on Scots – Glencoe. Devine ought to know better.

When Labour governed Scots the party waving a red flag almost solely served Westminster’s interests. Keeping our shipyards became a dirge of ‘they don’t pay their way’, variety, while all the time South Korean shipyards received government grants that aided the construction of ships cheaper to build than ships in Scots yards.The result was a self-serving prophecy: we cannot afford to build ships because South Korean can build them cheaper than us. The party that said they would (illegally) block use of the pound sterling has no rescue plan for our ship builders, our oil refinery, or fishing industry.

Spot the difference Labour England and Labour Scotland – Scotland has no Union Jacks.

Starmer’s purge is billed as the erasure of “radical” policies. But there is nothing radical about a wealth tax, or a better health service for England, private profiteers banished from the beds of patients. This is mainstream social democracy. By deleting these policies, he is not bowing to “centrism”, but to an extreme agenda of austerity, privatisation, poverty and environmental destruction. Labour’s empty claim of being radical does not include welcoming Scotland as a nation state again.

We are recognised as a separate country with our own sovereignty and constitution. Tory, Labour and Lib-Dem collude to stop Scotland sharing embassies, or have a modicum of a foreign policy. What we see spoken on a bright red podium – union Jacks absent to fool us – about a prosperous Scotland is behind the scenes considered heretical and must be curbed.

The emptiness of Labour rhetoric

Labour remains a photo copy of the Tories, but is worse because they pretend to be the party of the people. Though it might appease the billionaire media, keep them happy their racist rags might survive austerity and falling sales after all, Labour destroys hope, trust and a sense that politics is responsive to our needs. Their Scottish branch is a horrible joke perpetrated on Scots, the same that deprecates the hope of a better society while demonstrating Labour will do all it can to pacify our ambitions.

A vote for Labour in Scotland is a vote for another brutal and now vengeful colonial party, an oppressor far worse than the kindergarten that is the SNP. Anybody placing their trust in Labour betrays Scotland and welcomes the death of free will.

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Labour’s Junked Policies: https://wp.me/p4fd9j-uKg

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