Scotland, don't be fooled by English Labour
No doubt viceroy-in-waiting Ian Murray will be donning his butcher’s apron jacket while attending “a programme of summer fetes and galas” in his Edinburgh South constituency in the run-up to the July 4th General Election.
Don’t be fooled. Murray’s fealty isn’t to Scotland but to his London masters led by the vacuous Sir Keir, who is offering more of the same neoliberal guff as the Tories.
English Labour have vowed to:
- Follow their fictional ‘fiscal-rules’ to justify inflicting more austerity on the long-suffering people.
- Talk endlessly about growth but not use the government’s money-creating power to invest in public services, education and infrastructure that would facilitate actual growth and improve people’s lives.
- Not admit that the government can create as much money as it needs to do whatever it wants and instead cling to the lie that taxpayers fund the government.
- Not renationalise natural monopolies like energy, water and transport, instead allowing private corporations and foreign governments to continue their asset-stripping operations that have turned the UK into a 3rd-world state.
- Allow the feckless and out-of-touch Bank of England to jack up interest rates to immiserate the majority and enrich the wealthy, then falsely claim this quelled inflation when inflation was always going to fall.
- Coddle the world’s dirty money-laundromat, the City of London, because Starmer and his cabal can’t bite the hand that feeds it.
- Finish the job of NHS privatisation to satisfy their private health industry donor base.
- Blindly follow the US as it bombs, sanctions and threatens other nations and funds a genocide.
- Continue to steal Scottish resources that they desperately need to shore up the rotting UK edifice.
- Deny the Scottish People the right to determine their own form of government.
Murray calls July 4th “Independence Day for political change,” a rich irony given that’s when the American colonies announced their intention to sever their mooring from the colonial mothership.
It would be most fitting if that was the day the Scottish People woke up and took back their nation.
Reading Leah's contribution to the vast and growing, highly informed, Independence critiques from across the Scottish political and economic class, it is remarkable that much of the population is not in open revolt as they realise they have been taken for fools by the Westminster system. Even with a Unionist compliant media it is astounding that the polls allegedly predict big Labour gains in Scotland at the coming UK GE. How then do we din into the voting public these uncomfortable facts? Or was Socrates right after all?