Nandy appointed Shadow Foreign Secretary: Labour has no plans to regain Scottish seats
Nandy: anti-Scottish?
It’s the only conclusion one can infer from Keir Starmer’s decision to give Lisa Nandy a Shadow Cabinet post: that he has absolutely no intention to even try to regain Labour’s dominance in Scotland.
Nandy infamously said that the UK should “look to Catalonia” for lessons on how to defeat Scottish nationalism.
She was referring to the Spanish government’s use of force to try to stop a disputed independence referendum in Catalonia, in 2017.
Starmer’s decision to put her in the Shadow Cabinet is certain to infuriate voters in Scotland, who now see her as hate-filled and violent. Who can blame them?
And it indicates that left-wing fears are correct: Starmer is jerking Labour rightward once again – and he knows that a right-wing Labour Party cannot hope to retake Scotland from the SNP.
It also indicates that he knows his place. Without Scottish seats, Labour cannot hope to win a general election. He stands confirmed as the Labour leader who’ll keep the party in opposition to keep a socialist out of Downing Street.
Source: Scottish independence: Labour candidate Lisa Nandy criticised for Catalonia remarks – BBC News
DOES ANYONE HOPE THAT HE MIGHT PUT ON HIS BIGBOY PANTS AND DEMAND EVIDENCE FROM THE B 0 D NOT GOSSIP AND INUENDO AND SMEARS?
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Richard Burgon has been sacked
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Indeed, Mike, as you say without Scotland it’s impossible to see how Labour will ever beat the Tories in a GE. Even with the 59 seats they lost, that’s still nowhere near enough to gain a majority in Parliament.
And there were all those banging on about Labour under Corbyn being the party of permanent opposition! You really couldn’t make it up if it wasn’t actually true.
Moreover, if Starmer thinks he might persuade the Tories into another ref on PR (although I doubt he even has that in mind), then he’s definitely in cloud cuckoo land. Why would they even consider it with such a healthy majority?
I get the distinct impression he hasn’t got much political nous at all! Either that, or as you suggest, he’s no more than a right-wing lackey put there to keep socialism off the menu.
What I also don’t get are all those who think that staying with the party is somehow going to reverse this trend. Instead, they’ll be pushed out as time goes on, so why waste all those subscriptions? Far better, imo, to put that money to much better use in forming a new democratic socialist party.
Indeed, in future, Labour’s very survival depends on converting right-wing voters in ENGLAND to support the party, even though around a third of the electorate didn’t vote for ANY candidate in the general election. Shouldn’t their strategy be getting members and activists to engage with that third?
One minor (but important) correction:
When Nandy said that the UK should “look to Catalonia” for lessons, the verb she used was “beat”. the UK should look to Catalonia to learn how to “beat” Scottish nationalism.
https://twitter.com/stephenpaton134/status/1217558374092623874?lang=en