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?
"#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’s spokesperson defended the decision to admit her to the party. “It’s a sign of the progress that we’ve made that people recognise that on some of the key challenges facing the country, the Tories have failed,” he said."
“Here is someone who is willing to make the significant step of switching across to Keir Starmer’s changed Labour party and that’s something we’re very happy to see.”
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?
"Earlier this week, Streeting attracted criticism from Scottish politicians and Labour’s left after writing in... The Sun that he would fight the “middle-class lefties” who oppose expanding the NHS’s use of private health providers.
"[Streeting's] register of interests shows that the intervention came after he accepted donations totalling around £175,000 from two donors with links to private healthcare firms."
“It was the flag that went to battle against Hitler’s racism,” Lammy wrote. “I’ve always felt abandoning it to racists was a betrayal of its anti-fascist heritage."
Lammy's flag is that of a state that's complicit in the fascist apartheid racist genocidal land-grabbing Israeli genocide in #Gaza.
"Wes Streeting, in an article for the Sun, claimed that people complaining about increased use of private services in the NHS were “middle-class lefties” – and tried to draw a dividing line between them and “working families”.
"Streeting, a key ally of party leader Keir Starmer who has been tipped as a future party leader himself, said the NHS was a “service, not a shrine”."
"Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary [for England], used an article in The Sun to position himself against “middle-class lefties” who oppose his plans to force the NHS to use private sector providers."
The National: "Anger meets Labour pledge to bring private healthcare into NHS [England]."
"In my letter... I called upon the UK Government to ban the license of arms exports from the UK to Israel, given the risk of increasing bloodshed caused by Israel’s threat to carry out a ground offensive into Rafah.
“I note that I have yet to receive a response and you have taken no such action, despite the death-toll continuing to increase."
Letter from Humza Yousaf to Rishi Sunak today.
(Ignoring letters from First Ministers is an integral part of the British government's "respect agenda".)