This is what Starmer did, in effect, say today:
"I am so sorry we cannot govern. That's the Tories' fault. There's nothing we can do about it. So we are going to do exactly what they did, except it may be worse."
Explain how you can ''spend more'' than you bring in, when we are given a block grant and ''legally'' have to stay within it as we don’t have the borrowing powers?
Why the fcuk is no one at STV News asking this question and countering this nonsense?
‘Yvette Cooper faces legal battle over restoring hate crime measures’
With quotes from Harry Miller in The Times
Note: Seen In Journalism will continue to use accurate language about sex and gender across platforms and in all communications. archive.ph/2024.08.28-210…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves was in Scotland today informing everyone she doesn't know how the Scot Gov is funded. In 2015 she was campaigning against the Bedroom Tax she is now keeping. "It's not right that we try and balance the books on the backs of the poorest in society".
NEW: Catherine Smith KC has been appointed by the King as Advocate General for Scotland.
She will advise the government on Scots law.
She is the daughter of former Labour leader John Smith, sister of BBC's Sarah Smith and will join her mother Elizabeth Smith in House of Lords.
Over a decade to plan for govt and all Starmer’s Labour come up with is more legislation to make folk poorer and diminish their freedoms or punish them for talking back.
If the indy strategy from the SNP conference is that we're bound to get an S30 referendum eventually from Westminster, then it's just fantasy. This is where the UK is heading. We've already seen Lab's plan to create a parallel Viceroy Govt in Scotland around the Scottish Office.
🧵 Defeat & the current state of denial in the SNP has been a long time in the making. Many of the problems that led to the SNP defeat at the general election were readily identifiable years ago. 1/4
It is quite something for a governing political party to contrive to have its annual conference defined by this. The leaders speech? Who cares. This and that policy announcement? Meh. ‘Did you see that nutter on stage?’.
‘Oh aye. Forwarded it on to a lot of friends and family’
‘The SNP lost hundreds of thousands of votes on July 4 and nothing the party leaders have said since conveys the impression that they think they did anything wrong.’ Kevin McKenna at #SNP2024 archive.ph/q9VYY
‘Where’s the imagination, the ambition, the energy and the dynamism?’ Alex Neil generates more ideas to promote Scottish independence in 2 minutes than John Swinney did @ SNP2024
Whether from malice, misunderstanding or being deliberately wrongly briefed, almost all of the Scottish press is gravely misreporting the Scottish Government's appalling response to the Cass Review. wingsoverscotland.com/your-children-…
Just know that this is what the political classes think about the poor. This is what happens when we have "representatives" who know nothing about our struggles or our class - and care even less. The facade of British Democracy!