English Labour's 'grown-up' politics is just more colonial exploitation
Published in the September 24th edition of the Edinburgh Evening News and The National.
Viceroy Murray intones “It’s time for serious grown-up politics again.”
By grown-up does he mean like his boss, sponger in chief Sir Keir, who accepted over £100k in freebies for designer clothes, specs, concert and football tickets, holidays and a personal trainer, more than any other recent party leader?
This from a man who last month vowed to clean up politics after Tory cronyism and corruption.
By grown-up does he mean the £4 million donation English Labour received before the general election from Cayman Islands-based Quadrature Capital, a mega investor in fossil fuels, private health companies, weapons manufacturers and asset managers? Labour’s largest gift ever, it was strategically made during the one-week window between Sunak’s general election announcement and the start of the ‘pre-poll reporting period’ when all political donations over £11,180 must be published weekly rather quarterly. The May 28th gift was only revealed last week, 2 months after the election. No wonder Starmer, Reeves and Streeting are bringing back PFIs, continuing financial deregulation, and privatizing the NHS. He who pays the piper calls the tune.
By grown-up does he mean how Sir Keir concealed his donors - Martin Taylor, Sir Trevor Chinn and Baron Waheed Alli - until after his 2020 leadership election? Starmer, his family and friends used Alli’s £18m Covent Garden penthouse to watch the July 4th election returns.
By grown-up does he mean English Labour’s proposed rule changes to prevent challengers from forcing a leadership vote in order to secure the vain and greedy Starmer in his post, freeing him to inflict all the pain his donors demand on the long suffering public for five years?
The Viceroy says he cares about a better and fairer Scotland. Is that why he voted to let our pensioners freeze and our children live in poverty? Or why he's letting our industries die and our resources to be stolen?
This isn’t grown-up politics. It’s naked colonial exploitation.
Wake up, Scotland.
It’s soul destroying to see what the Labour Party has become. Starmer and his cronies are no better, perhaps even worse than the Tories they replaced.
My heart weeps for Scotland and for Palestine.
Questions, in fact, as the BritNats said in 2014, 'too many unanswered questions'...who IS in control of the 'UK' EngGov? Yikes.
Scotland won't all wake up Leah, too many who do not subscribe to factual news, or blogs and don't do 'social media' as it's too 'toxic', yet they believe BritGBUK propaganda. The rich and powerful rely on the ignorant to survive, and they do exist. I know at least one such person in Scotland, who is Scottish, who is anti independence, voted Labour, but try to tell her about anything going on the world, 'argh that's why I don't watch the news'!! I hardly have the time or energy to inform this person but I'll try. I still think Scotland needs to look at who can vote in Scottish elections, imo only F/T residents, and only if lived in Scotland for three years or more. Thing is Scotland is up against an even bigger monster depending on who controls the 'UK' government/regime. :-/