Now that Starmer is taking a zero tolerance approach to any suggestion that there can be hierarchies of racism, it seems clear that Labour must disband itself for its racist refusal to accept Scotland's right to exist and to defend herself

I remember in my days on Political Betting, aka 'Stormfront Lite', I used to sometimes get into heated discussions with the right-wing Tory hordes about whether it was possible for Scottish people to suffer racism from people elsewhere in the UK.  "Scotland is a region not a race" was the basic message I would often hear, although that was somewhat undermined by the precedent set by a court case at the time in which someone was found guilty of making racist comments that were specifically about Andy Murray's Scottishness.

I presume an inescapable logical extension of Keir Starmer's ludicrous decision to remove the whip from Diane Abbott yet again, and of his reasons for doing so, is that any Labour MP who ever questions whether it's possible for Scots to suffer racism that is of equal severity to the racism suffered by non-white populations will automatically be booted out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.  Indeed logically it must be racist to deny Scotland's right to exist as a sovereign state.  It must be racist to deny Scotland's right to defend herself.  There can be no hierarchy of racism here.  Starmer must take a zero tolerance approach to all Jockophobic denials of Scotland's right to exist and to defend herself, which inescapably means, I'm afraid, that the Labour party must now disband itself after decades of shockingly severe breaches.

I had actually been thinking about Diane Abbott in recent days, because if hypothetically she was to follow Jeremy Corbyn into the new left-wing party, that might boost its electoral chances quite considerably.  And yet I remember her saying a number of times over the years that "the left doesn't leave the Labour party, it's always the right that walks away", which I take to mean that she would never leave herself.  But could Starmer have just stupidly put her in a position where she has absolutely nothing left to lose?  She was thinking about retirement even before the last election, so presumably she intends this to be her final term in parliament anyway.  With no real incentive for her to spend potentially years grovelling to get the whip back, she might just conclude that a more constructive use of her time is to help get a viable alternative to Starmerism off the ground.

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