Labour activists in Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency have accused the national party of an “egregiously undemocratic selection process” after it chose a candidate without consulting the local branch.
Photo titled Praful Nargund founded a chain of IVF clinics with his mother, Geeta. He was anointed without even meeting the local Labour branch, activists said.
"Stephen Flynn has branded Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar a “sleekit salesman” after he admitted his family firm does not pay workers the real living wage.
"On Sunday, Sarwar was forced to concede that his own family’s business does not pay salaries which match the level Labour claims will “lift people out of poverty” as part of their “New Deal for Working People”."
"Sarwar relinquished his own shares in the family business – United Wholesale (Scotland) – in 2017. They were reported to be worth around £4.8 million.
"In late 2017, Sarwar claimed he'd received assurances from the company that it "wants to transition to a real living wage for all employees"."
Change nothing, take what we can, give nothing back
Which is fer doos seein as ther nae mair thin wan subsidiary eh the very same Westminster Corruption Group as the Tories an yer Undemocratic Liberally Enabling Sniders, who aw see this election as jist anorrer chance tae continue syphonin aff public funds tae line corporate pockets while enriching thaimsels .. At your expense!
So thers yer Labour Change fur ye ,they jist omitted the wurd 'Nohin'
"The polls have suggested for some time now that the Labour victory will be a landslide. The more voters support Starmer south of the Border, the less he will pay the blindest bit of attention to Scottish voters and Scottish issues. Left to his own devices, he has shown that he does not give a toss."
Richard Walker: "Keir Starmer will have the same disdain for Scottish issues as Rishi Sunak".
#LabourGaslighting at Holyrood and in the "Scottish" media is relentless.
Remember Streeting's admission when #Captain_UTurn sneaks into Scotland today to attack the Scottish Government’s record on NHS Scotland and other devolved areas.
In the same week that Scotland's latest census data indicated that 66% of our population identifies exclusively as Scottish and only 14% as exclusively British, #Captain_UTurn launches the UK Labour campaign festooned in union flags.
Will the "patriotic" union flag shagging be a feature of "Labour" campaigning in #Scotland?
“Voting Scottish [sic] Labour means booting out this rotten Tory Government, maximising Scotland’s influence with Scottish [sic] Labour MPs in government and delivering the change that Scotland needs."
"Westminster isn't working for Scotland, even the Labour party is having to admit that essential truth.
"What the Labour party still won't admit is that a centre-right Westminster government headed by Keir Starmer – a government committed to Conservative spending limits and refusing to raise taxes on the wealthy – won't work for Scotland either."
"#Scotland wasn’t mentioned once in [UK] Labour’s big pre-election pitch today [16/5/24].
"[Neither in] Starmer’s 2,631 word speech. Nor the hefty 5,724-word press release which included comments from the likes of Ed Milliband and Yvette Cooper.
"... neither Wales nor Northern Ireland were mentioned either."
"Starmer... said he was delighted with [Natalie Elphicke's] defection, telling reporters yesterday it showed his party was "the party of the national interest"."
"Labour has picked a councillor from an English council 500 miles away to be the party’s candidate in a Scottish constituency.
"Elizabeth Carr-Ellis has been picked to stand in the new Angus and Perthshire Glens constituency at the upcoming General Election – despite currently being a councillor in Canterbury, Kent."
Right on Keir. Your primary thoughts seem to be ending divisions by centralising power in Westminster and denying process and control to the other three countries in this ‘so precious Union’ - one that is long past its use by date.
You don't care about or even care to represent Scottish interests - what is nonsense really about?
Only you're ending "division" by blocking the mandates of a majority of Scots for #indyref2 "forever" while offering no real alternative to rancid Thatcherism and refusing to say under which circumstances Scots might democratically disengage from your "voluntary union".
There is some irony at listening to Starmer urging an election to "Let the people decide", the same Starmer who does not recognise Scotland's right to have a referendum to "Let the people decide". Yes, indeed, we had one in 2014 but materially, the UK has changed. We have elections every five years yet Scotland is continually denied democracy by, in effect, a foreign country, England. Is the union voluntary, yes it is, how then does Scotland leave ?
It's also humiliating because Starmer's on record as supporting the right to #indyref2 prior to the last Holyrood election and then subsequently stating he would never support it.
The presumption, contempt and bare faced mendacity are off the scale.
Why anybody in their right mind would still trust #Captain_UTurn beggars belief.