Truthfully, readers, swear to God, all joking and sarcasm apart, once we noticed this tweet yesterday we had been questioning how on Earth some intelligent satirist had managed to hack Anas Sarwar’s account to insert the screenshot into it.
As a result of we didn’t imagine that even Scottish Labour’s low-watt-bulb of a department supervisor would willingly submit one thing that made him look a lot of an imbecile.
Proudly trumpeting the truth that his tattered ragbag of tenth-rate nobodies nonetheless trailed the SNP by an enormous 14 factors, and had actually simply reshuffled the deckchairs of the Unionist vote at a time when the UK authorities seems to be actively trying to commit public suicide, was dumb even by Sarwar’s requirements. However no person ever went broke by overestimating simply how thick North British Labour are.
You couldn’t transfer on social media final evening for them – largely rejected former M/SPs – proclaiming that their “celebration” was again in enterprise in Scotland.
Although the very ballot they had been quoting additionally predicted that if there was an election tomorrow they’d actually win simply seven Scottish seats out of 59.
(Or as comedy moron Kezia Dugdale put it, “dozens”.)
And that on the identical polling the SNP would safe an outright majority in a Holyrood election for less than the second time, with pro-indy MSPs rising from 72 to a document 79.
However even funnier was that the ballot didn’t counsel a SINGLE discount in Tory seats from folks voting Labour. That’s as a result of Labour are completely nowhere in the one six Scottish seats the Tories truly maintain. In half of them they’re stone useless final.
All six of Labour’s potential beneficial properties can be on the expense of the SNP, making completely no distinction by any means to the opposition numbers at Westminster. The Tories can be six seats down as a result of they’d have misplaced these six seats to the SNP.
Now, none of this truly issues. We all know from historical past that fifty Scottish Labour MPs at Westminster are not less than as nugatory as 50 SNP ones, and since UK Labour are each bit as stridently towards a second indyref because the Tories are, the thought of any indy supporters switching to them is farcical.
However it actually is jaw-dropping that after 15 years of probably the most abject failure in Scotland the department workplace continues to be punting the very same voter-insulting rubbish within the hope that it’ll immediately begin working.
As this website proved conclusively over a decade in the past, Labour doesn’t want Scotland. It solely ever wins UK elections when it wins in England. They may get 100% of votes in Scotland each time, not 31%, and it’d nonetheless make sod-all distinction to something.
(We couldn’t assist however smile in passing at the truth that the determine the celebration was delirious with pleasure over was nonetheless decrease than its Scottish vote share when it was crushed by Alex Salmond’s landslide majority victory in 2011.)
This website’s utter contempt for Nicola Sturgeon’s pathetic devolutionist excuse for an SNP is a well-documented reality. However our dedication to reality by no means modifications, and the reality is that voting Labour in Scotland can’t harm the Tories, far much less “kick them out”. In the one seats the Tories maintain north of the border, Scottish Labour are a staggering common of nearly 20,000 votes behind them. (19,857.5 to be exact).
If Labour actually wished Scotland to defeat the Tories “collectively”, as Ian Murray claimed, they’d at an absolute minimal be urging tactical votes for the SNP in these six seats – in 4 of them, including Labour’s votes to the SNP’s can be sufficient to oust the Tory. However it’s nonetheless so consumed by its blind, vicious hatred for the celebration that changed it in Scotland that it could moderately the Tories had six seats than none.
However what Blair McDougall and his fool buddies nonetheless can’t get into their tiny tiny brains is that Sure supporters DON’T need a Labour authorities (which can inevitably get replaced by one other Tory one just a few years later). They need independence, and regard Labour as their enemy identical to the Tories are. They wish to be rid of the Tories by selecting their personal governments, at EVERY election, not by having English voters impose their alternative on them and simply hoping that often it coincides with Scotland’s.
A “change” to a different neoliberal, anti-independence, anti-trade-union and pro-Brexit celebration is not any change in any respect. (Though it could be a change for the more severe for girls’s rights.) The proposed tax reduce for the wealthy that so spectacularly blew the ground out from beneath the Tory authorities would actually have simply restored the highest charge to what it was for greater than 99% of Labour’s final 13-year time period in authorities.
Even so, a Scottish Labour that wasn’t staffed solely by echo-skulled pinheads just like the above would possibly even have an opportunity of creating some progress in Scotland. Heaven is aware of the nation wants an efficient opposition to the incompetent, corrupt and evil shambles that’s in command of it. However readers, these absolute honking embarrassments to the dribbling-cretin group ain’t it. Our nation is plagued.
