10 Comments
User's avatar
Janice Gale's avatar

Starmer knows how to stand up against the weak and poor but not the real threats in this world, where making decisions and taking a stand is crucial. I call him a coward. He has no charisma, no idea about communicating ideas, maybe because he doesn't have any worth sharing. Neoliberalism has been a disaster as has Brexit but no-one in the governing party will stand up and call it out. No wonder people think a plague on all their houses and give Farage an opening when that disastrous scenario would produce even more hurt and division. It makes me feel like there's no-one at all in British public life who actually know what they're doing.

Expand full comment
Rosie Barnes's avatar

He’s a fake, he isn’t a coward, he’s doing exactly what he was made for, globalism! He’s a traitor to his own country

Expand full comment
Ann Rayner's avatar

I agree with your judgement of Starmer as does Prof Richard Murphy who writes sometimes for the Nstional and has both a blog and a YouTube podcast. He talks a lot of sense on Economics so I recommend you check both these if you do not do sobalready

Expand full comment
Leah Gunn Barrett's avatar

Yes, Murphy is good on economics and UK politics but when he strays into US politics, he loses the plot somewhat.

Expand full comment
Ann Rayner's avatar

I accept you know more about US politics than most if us in the UK!

Expand full comment
Tom Pike's avatar

“Unless Scots wake up to what’s happening and begin to resist en masse, this will be our future. “

It’s difficult for Scots to waken up, when most don’t even know it’s happening. The media, owned by billionaires with vested interest in Freeports, is on board. Folk won’t know until it’s too late.

We’re just sleepwalking into the nightmare, unless the SNP waken up and change direction. That direction should be independence.

Expand full comment
Hetty in Scotchland ;-)'s avatar

Thatcher, the 'milk snatcher' as she was known, (for taking 'free' milk from the mouths of wee kids at school) literally destroyed lives, she tore apart whole communities and towns by removing their industries, she hated the worked class, posing as a daughter of a grocer or some such thing, a fake, a liar and a fascist. Despicable, I hope she is rotting in eternal hell because my parents and family were almost destroyed by her nasty, neocons' disgusting greed.

Starmer is not daft though, he is taking orders from his masters, and like the US, the 'UK' has been hijacked by the mega maga rich and their devilish pals abroad. Not sure what the SNP can do to even tread water at this point in time. We live in dangerous times for sure.

Expand full comment
Rosie Barnes's avatar

People underestimate this shill to globalism! He is not an idiot. Research his history, he is fully contrived abhorrence!

He IS a shill, but he’s up for it like a panting dog waiting on the ball to be thrown!

Expand full comment
Alan Crowe's avatar

I think the loss of Grangemouth is the final nail in the coffin for Scottish independence, the British gov knew exactly what they were doing by underwriting Jim Ratcliffe's £600.000000 loan to to invest in a Belgium refinery, So now all our oil goes direct to England to be processed. all the jobs are in English refineries and the finished product is sent back to us at a higher cost, much the same as our electricity.

The fact that the Holyrood administration did nothing to stop this travesty, tells me that an independent Scotland will never happen.

At least not in a peaceful fashion, Hell mend the Holyrood traitors.

Expand full comment
Hetty in Scotchland ;-)'s avatar

I dint think so. Scotland has far more resources than just oil...yes the BritEngNats try to play it down, they always have. I mean they've known the oil was in Scottish territorial waters for far longer than has ever been admitted to, and independence ain't going to stop the English administration taking that oil until every last drop drips from the tap, which has been extremely lucrative for the English establishment.

As for your claim of 'traitors', strong word to use, and you'd need to spell out who you are referring to...within the 'administration' at Holyrood. What do you propose if independence is now dead in the water, unless, secured but, 'not in a peaceful fashion'? Those working their socks off for independence, trying against huge odds to get the message out, peacefully, that Scotland is incredibly capable of running their own country with their own Scottish GOVERNMENT, would I'm sure like to hear why you think independence is now suddenly unattainable because the 'oil' is still being stolen by the country next door and their dodgy pals outwith the so called UK. The times I've heard from BritNat friends and family in England and in Scotland, that oils 'dirty' or 'what will you do without the oil'? Sigh. Ok, let's concentrate on Scotland's vast resources in renewables, minerals, yikes, land and water, plus other industries, because oil is bad for Scotland and Scottish independence, according to the BritNat jobsworths at Holyrood, their English controlled media and everyone who likes a cleaner liveable on planet anyway.

Oil is the bane of Scotland, not an asset...and the £trillions stolen re that is tragic, but not a new hindrance to independence.

Expand full comment