Breakfasting with Banksters

The pointlessness of English Labour

Published in today’s Edinburgh Evening News, February 20th, 2024.

The English Labour Glasgow jamboree is thankfully over. And northern supervisor Anas Sarwar is back in line where he belongs, despite his recent boast that he would stand up to his boss, a tacit admission that Starmer doesn’t give a toss about Scotland.

Even if Sarwar did manage to locate his spine and confront Starmer on Labour’s refusal to back a Gaza ceasefire to end the genocide, on its hostility to workers, its support for the 2-child benefit cap and bankers’ bonuses, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference. Sarwar has MSPs like the hapless Daniel Johnson who would rather breakfast with banksters to ‘discuss the cost of living crisis’ than advocate for Scots who can’t afford to heat their homes.  

English Labour has nothing but contempt for Scotland. Its cunning plan to create GB Energy is no more than a shell company for the ongoing plunder of Scotland’s renewable energy resources and won’t change the fact that the Scottish cash cow will continue to be milked by the colonial power. 

Josh Simons of Labour Together expressed this contempt perfectly when he said that people traffickers should be put on a barge and shipped “up to the north of Scotland for all I… you know, who cares?”

The contingent of SNP MPs shouldn’t waste another day warming Westminster’s green benches, but come home to help liberate their nation.