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Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37354 Scotland and the "second referendum" Submitted by martin on 8 June, 2021 - 3:47 Author: Dale Street The SNP victory – or SNP-Green victory – in the Holyrood election of 6 May 2021 was a mandate for a second referendum on Scottish independence. The fact that the SNP did not get an absolute majority of seats or an absolute majority of the popular vote is irrelevant. The Holyrood voting system is designed to stop one party gaining an absolute majority of seats (and the SNP fell only seat short of that). And no one ever argued that the 1945 Labour government had no mandate because it failed to win 50% of the popular vote.
Starmer and his advisers are eager to address the working class as a ‘patriotic’ identity, rather than an economic group that will support progressive policies proposed by people like themselves, writes NICK WRIGHT
What is there to be said about Keir Starmer’s mystifyingly stupid, self-discrediting and self-destructive decision to sack Angela Rayner as Labour Party chair? Other than the obvious, which is that unless it emerges in relatively short order that Rayner has been quietly defrauding Labour Party funds or running an illicit drug ring, it is mystifyingly stupid, self-discrediting and self-destructive. Bluntly, there is no intelligent analysis of the local elections that would pin the blame on Labour’s deputy leader. These are elections in which the incumbent governments in England, Scotland and Wales have all seen major gains: a picture that defies the idea that what we are seeing is either about a deep-rooted and enduring realignment of the so-called Red Wall behind the Conservative Party or that it is a particular commentary on anything within the gift of Labour.
Editorial: At last Labour comes out swinging over Tory corruption Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pulls a pint and drinks it during a visit to Wrexham Larger Brewery in Wrexham as part of Welsh Labour's Senedd election campaign IN a significant relaxation of the previous system in which profit-hungry bosses seeking government contracts were required to be personally acquainted with the prime minister or at least have attended the same institutions of education, now it is merely necessary to have his phone number on speed dial. It is to deal with this integral feature of Tory government that Labour has demanded that ministers end the “text for access” system.
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Enter your keywords Editorial: Saying the quiet part loud: the Police Bill puts the class war out in the open People in Parliament Square, London, taking part in a demonstration against THERE is a fearful symmetry between the revelations that former Tory minister Norman Tebbitt relied on information provided by police spies and the purposes of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill presently going through Parliament. Lord Tebbit, as he is now styled, was among Margaret Thatcher’s most hard-line ministers. His enduring trait is an open and unshakeable adherence to a set of extraordinarily reactionary political views. His great virtue is that in his open expression of ruling-class arrogance and entitlement he makes abundantly clear that the sinews of the capitalist state are unreservedly devoted to countering the influence of the working class on the affairs of the nation and in countering the political influence of all those forces that represent working-class interests in the present moment or advance the cause of the working class in the future.
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Leonard resigns, as Starmer abandons Scotland's voters | Socialistresistance.org socialistresistance.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from socialistresistance.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.