I have some audio commentary on YouTube for you about the SNP's impressive win in the Stirling East by-election - plus also I make reference to the bizarre lengths the mainstream media are going to in order to protect the reputation of the late Queen Elizabeth now that the scale of her misjudgement over Andrew is beyond dispute. And I comment on Iain Macwhirter's bizarre tweet implying that only North Korean style isolationism would be enough to qualify Scotland as "independent".
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Last two polls (YouGov & Find Out Now) have Tories, Labour & Greens in a statistical tie (with LibDems trailing only slightly).
ReplyDeleteRemarkably, Labour have further to fall. The next GE could see Labour in a close run contest for fifth place with the Tories. From the party of government, to irrelevance, and extinction in one Parliamentary term, quite an achievement.
Starmer will have retired to sunnier climes to watch his beloved, Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Actually punched the air when I seen this result. IFS your weekend has been ruined lol
ReplyDeleteThe Labour candidate maximised her exposure as a shop steward (UNISON), to the exclusion of much else. Not a bad strategy given the size of the Public Sector, and the usually pitiful turnout at Local Elections. She’s bound to have garnered a few votes on the basis of having represented folk at disputes, and tribunals.
ReplyDeleteIain MacWhirter seems to have turned into an Annie Wells type. character Are he and Stewart Campbell the same person, or are they both going through pre-retirement identity crises at the same time?
ReplyDeleteIf your interpretation is correct and Iain Macwhirter means that joining the EU is incompatible with Scotland being a sovereign nation, I agree with him. I see serious suggestions from SNP senior voices that we should join the Euro to give credibility to Scottish independence. This supports the idea that the SNP don't understand what it means to have your own currency. Even if we managed to steer clear of the Euro, being in the EU means compliance with the Stability and Growth Pact, and Scotonomics has shown how that would hamstring us.
ReplyDeleteAdding that to the poor economic performance and immoral foreign policy stance of the EU means it's hardly something we should seek to join.
I'm more ambivalent about the EU than I used to be, largely because of Ursula von der Leyen's and Kaja Kallas' genocide apologism. But Macwhirter's comment would imply that EU countries like France and Germany are not independent, which is obviously ludicrous.
DeleteEU treats Ireland better than England in this equal union of nations
DeleteI agree about those the behaviour of those two horrors on Gaza, but Ursula von der Leyen has other questions to answer.
DeleteFrance and especially Germany have only been allowed to escape the rules on financing because of their size.
I don't give to figs what currency we use. I just want independence. If it means joining the Euro , who cares. Arguing about these things before independence is nonsense.
ReplyDeleteThis was my Ward and reform were desperate to win. They put so many leaflets and letters through my door, most of them, curiously, never really mentioning immigration. They were distributed by a familiar face, Alistair Majury, who long time independence supporters might remember from twitter as a very high profile troll account called Mulder1981.
ReplyDeleteSaid troll was also a former Tory councillor a few years back:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40999001
So reform have an active operation in Stirling, but it is literally the exact same Tories in a slightly different coloured jacket. Reform had high expectations here.
Labour were also canvassing during the campaign, and the SNP put a few leaflets through the door too. This was an active election.
Additionally, James, you might also want to use the next door ward, Bannockburn as a comparison point, because they also had a by election in January, and reform got around the same percentage.
Obvious position with regards EU membership would be to let the people of Scotland decide by referendum after independence. This would mean though that we'd need currency sorted out in advance. Personally, I would go for a Norway type of relationship with Europe.
ReplyDeleteI remember the Majury one. He was the poor soul who needed to boast in public about the size of his penis. It's funny how these angry inadequates always gravitate to right wing outfits to make themselves seem tough.
ReplyDeleteHe was one of those who liked being photographed with Colonel Baroness Davidson, another misfit who got promoted where she couldn't cause any more damage. Let's not forget that at the zenith of her powers she managed to get fewer votes for the Rape Clause Party than Thatcher.