Labour Against Scotland

by Rab Bruce’s Spider

 

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There are so many examples of the UK Labour Government shafting Scotland that it is difficult to keep up. The fiasco over the Grangemouth refinery has even got the local Labour MP angry with his own Party, and that’s without taking into account Anas sarwar’s brazen lies about saving the refinery during the election campaign.

 

The other thing Mr Sarwar doesn’t get questioned about nearly often enough by the UK media in Scotland is his lack of control over the MPs who allegedly report to him but who, in practice, do as Keir starmer tells them. And Keir Starmer never tells them to do anything which might assist their Scottish constituents. Indeed, their main role seems to be to trashtalk Scotland at every opportunity. They do this, of course, to denigrate the SNP Scottish Government, but they rarely take into account the role of Westminster in most of the problems facing Scotland.

 

There was another example last week. We know from the excellent work done by Prof Robertson on his Talking UP Scotland site that the provision of NHS dental care is far better in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK. Yet Kirsteen Sullivan, Scottish Labour MP for Bathgate & Linlithgow, stood up in the House of Commons to ask Keir Starmer about the shocking lack of provision of such care, thus allowing the Prime Minister to make a speech about the hopelessness of the Scottish Government. Now, the fact that they blatantly ignored the reality of the situation is one thing, but the main thing that irked me about this was that Healthcare is a devolved matter. Whether Keir starmer thinks the Scottish Government is doing a good job or not, it has nothing to do with him. So why did a so-called Scottish MP give him a chance to grandstand about it? There was absolutely nothing he could do, constructively or otherwise, to change things, so the only possible reason is that the MP, as many of her colleagues have done,  was acting like a pet poodle and simply teeing up a chance for the PM to badmouth Scotland.

 

If Scottish voters haven’t realised by now that Labour despise Scotland, then they must be living in a very insulating bubble.

 

As ever, there is one way to stop this nonsense from happening. It can’t come soon enough.

  

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