Oh dearie me... Bold move by Sarwar, but I reckon, futile. The SNP will (unfortunately) win the Scottish general election, and another four years of moribund, virtue signalling performance politics as Bonnie Scotland slowly sinks beneath the geopolitical waves...
What a fool Sarwar is. He should have kept his trap shut. Any Labour leadership election is sure to see a left-winger take the job and no one voted for a Corbyn look-alike party. Indeed few people voted FOR Labour in 2024, they voted AGAINST the Tories. Starmer should call a GE and see how the chips fall. It can be no more damaging than what’s going on now.
Sarwar is a mediocraty like most MSPs. There is a serious lack of talent in Holyrood. It's all very well for Douglas Alexander to come out and condemn Sarwar's move as idiotic but he failed to give Holyrood the benefit of his talents after he lost Paisley to Mhairi Black. Instead he went to the US and Abu Dhabi as an academic( US universities pay more than UK ones) then joined a magic circle(Pincent Mason) law firm as an advisor.
He only returned to Scottish politics when it became obvious an easily won seat was available in a consituency he had never lived in. I suspect unless Labour's prospects look up he will not fight it at the next election.
Being the labour leader in Scotland(or the tory one for that matter) demands a degree of political legerdemain that only a few have had. Ruth Davidson managed it for the Tories. You have to two thing simulataneiouly. Both part of the UK party, but not of the UK party. Sarwar was only ever going to ride on Starmer or whoever was the labour PM's coat tails.
It is truely dispiriting that after 17 odd years of a one party state, with the shambles of the ferrys. the QE hospital, to say nothing of the gender wars, education doing down the tubes that no one seems capable of taking on the SNP except Reform.
I assumed that Sarwar would only have said this in the knowledge that Starmer was about to resign. As it is he is now going to face an election campaign being asked how , if elected as FM, he would work with Keir Starmer. Labour's USP would have been a good relationship with Westminster - that's not credible now. Maybe Sarwar wants out before Labour are crushed in May - either Starmer goes or Sarwar resigns to repair the rift with Westminster.
Oh dearie me... Bold move by Sarwar, but I reckon, futile. The SNP will (unfortunately) win the Scottish general election, and another four years of moribund, virtue signalling performance politics as Bonnie Scotland slowly sinks beneath the geopolitical waves...
What a fool Sarwar is. He should have kept his trap shut. Any Labour leadership election is sure to see a left-winger take the job and no one voted for a Corbyn look-alike party. Indeed few people voted FOR Labour in 2024, they voted AGAINST the Tories. Starmer should call a GE and see how the chips fall. It can be no more damaging than what’s going on now.
Sarwar is a mediocraty like most MSPs. There is a serious lack of talent in Holyrood. It's all very well for Douglas Alexander to come out and condemn Sarwar's move as idiotic but he failed to give Holyrood the benefit of his talents after he lost Paisley to Mhairi Black. Instead he went to the US and Abu Dhabi as an academic( US universities pay more than UK ones) then joined a magic circle(Pincent Mason) law firm as an advisor.
He only returned to Scottish politics when it became obvious an easily won seat was available in a consituency he had never lived in. I suspect unless Labour's prospects look up he will not fight it at the next election.
Being the labour leader in Scotland(or the tory one for that matter) demands a degree of political legerdemain that only a few have had. Ruth Davidson managed it for the Tories. You have to two thing simulataneiouly. Both part of the UK party, but not of the UK party. Sarwar was only ever going to ride on Starmer or whoever was the labour PM's coat tails.
It is truely dispiriting that after 17 odd years of a one party state, with the shambles of the ferrys. the QE hospital, to say nothing of the gender wars, education doing down the tubes that no one seems capable of taking on the SNP except Reform.
I assumed that Sarwar would only have said this in the knowledge that Starmer was about to resign. As it is he is now going to face an election campaign being asked how , if elected as FM, he would work with Keir Starmer. Labour's USP would have been a good relationship with Westminster - that's not credible now. Maybe Sarwar wants out before Labour are crushed in May - either Starmer goes or Sarwar resigns to repair the rift with Westminster.