Basically the story is that the former Alba candidate Irshad Ahmad defected to Labour and immediately got himself ranked top of Labour's regional list for Edinburgh & Lothians East, ahead of far better known candidates such as Daniel Johnson and Martin Whitfield. There are, shall we say, suspicions about how he may have done that. It's all rather akin to how Abdul Majid came out of nowhere to score a landslide victory over people like Craig Murray and Barrhead Boy in the 2023 Alba NEC elections.
I mean, we scoff at the Alba Continuity Junta's boasts that they will take Scotland to independence, but who knows, maybe they're onto something. Abdul Majid might get himself elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party or something, and then we'll be pushing at an open door. Independence, the Alba way, one rigged vote at a time.
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My latest Holyrood constituency profiles for The National are Bathgate and Caithness, Sutherland & Ross.
Unfortunately, political parties attract the opportunists with ego's. Labour has always had the apparent left wing Trade unionists types who later on become Lords and Lady's once they have bedded themselves into the establishment. As tories they know they wouldn't get elected but needed a labour ticket. Ask Tony Blair how it is done. SNP suddenly found lots of supporters and potential councillors after 2014 who say the right things to get onto the candidate list. Long standing members of labour , SNP, Libdems etc look around and can spot them off a mile. Pity some of the party advisors / hacks seem to have a blind spot by tose who massage their own ego's and let them in.
ReplyDeleteYeah, bandwagon jumpers.
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