#sarwar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sarwar, aggregated by home.social.
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The problem for #Labour is that it is not just #Starmer that is the problem. It is also all those that have gone along with the right-wing Labour project. To be sure, Starmer is a convenient focus, but we repeatedly heard on the doorstep that Labour collectively was being rejected. There are not many in the Cabinet that are not tainted, although some (e.g. Streeting) more than others.
One reason #Sarwar was unable to distance himself from Starmer was his own descent into right-wing tropes.
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@drgeraint the question #Sarwar really needs to ask himself is, does he want to be leader of a fading and increasingly irrelevant minor party in a devolved province, or would he rather be First Minister of an independent country?
That really is the choice. The #SNP is only held together by the issue of #ScottishIndependence — once that is won, their coalition will fall apart. There is a real opportunity there for a party of the centre left to win power and make change. Dare he?
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#AndrewTickell is an exquisitely subtle, precise writer on Scottish politics. His elegant, wistful style reminds me of the #TheObserver's late columnist Alan Watkins, but without Watkins's pretentiousness.
So when facing the political carcass of #AnasSarwar, Tickell doesn't put the boot in. Instead, he takes ornate surgical knives, and dissects #Sarwar with cold precision. Delicious, and much more satisfying than a boot.
Tickell's column in #TheNational https://archive.is/9p9xh
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I don't know that I feel more violated having their literature than, say, #Starmer or #Phillipson or #Streeting or #Sarwar spreading lies about trans people whenever I turn on the radio or fire up the computer. But YMMMV.
A point to consider, though, is that the current rules on access to the electoral register allow parties not funded by tech bros and financial services to function on a bit of level playing field, e.g. (where canvassing is concerned).
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OK, suppose — this isn't going to happen, but just suppose — #SNP come first in the #HolyroodElection but without a majority, and #ReformUKLtd come second. Which is #Sarwar going to support to form a government?
If you get a #UKLabour canvasser chapping your door, please ask them for me. I'll be *really* interested in their answer.
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It's shit, but fortunately #Sarwar is never going to be in a position to implement this. The polls suggest that he is going to struggle even to come second.
The latest Ipsos/Mori has SNP, GRN, REF, LAB. It's just one poll, but the picture of a three-way tussle for the minor places is a repeated story these days.
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The #ScottishLabourParty has — to put it mildly —;not adapted & prospered under devolution. In the weekend after its annual conference & #GortonAndDenton does it have any future? Could it finally become #ScottishLabour?
#GerryHassan's essay in the #SundayNational is not optimistic.
https://archive.is/HCHbt / https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25896510.late-scottish-labour-party-become-scottish-party/
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Anas's big idea.
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Yer man #CodyDahler is on top form about the #Starmer crisis.
Cody's short format is consistent: a bitchy, camp comms dude out for a walk, on the phone to his dysfunctional boss, or — as here — explaining the situation for anyone who is struggling to keep up, and doesn't want to look like a #thickythickydumbdumb.
Some days work better than others, but this resignation special nails it.
https://www.codydahler.com/ https://youtube.com/@mrcodydahler
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Sarwar’s stunt highlights Blairite danger
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sarwars-stunt-highlights-blairite-danger
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What on earth happened yesterday in #ScottishLabour?
Did #AnasSarwar really go solo, calling for #Starmer's resignation without support nailed down?
Or did he have supporters who ratted once the #Starmtroopers turned up the heat?
I haven't seem any decent reporting of the #Sarwar plan. Lots on the aftermath, but no inside info on the plan.
Has anyone seen any credible reports on what was intended?
I don't rate #Sarwar, but this seems unexpectedly daft even fir him.
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I'm pleased by yesterday's developments in the Downing Street dramas.
#Starmer has bought some space to allow weeks or even months of the #mortoregnum. #Popcorn moments continue, which is of course the primary purpose of the #Westminster shitshow. 😈
Now #Starmer's inevitable demise cannot be attributed to #AnasSarwar. #SLAB's planned moment of relevance for #Sarwar played out as just a puff of smoke. London massively subsidises the branch office, and it will make Sarwar pay.
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Man who nobody had ever heard of calls for resignation of man who is already doomed 🙄
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#ScottishLabour leader #AnasSarwar says he'd ban #transgender prisoners from women’s jails “within days” if he becomes first minister in May.
Sarwar would ensure that prisons are “single-sex, based on #biologicalSex”. https://archive.is/sMgsV
This would endanger #transwomen, and terrify #cis women who'd be sharing space with #transmen.
But the latest YouGov poll predicts wipeout for #SLAB. With zero chance of power, #Sarwar can promise without consequence. 🤮
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#Scottish #Labour take £200k in private healthcare-linked donations
Scottish Labour exposed over research which finds its #MPs have received nearly £200,000 from donors linked to #private #healthcare.
The #SNP have said that leader Anas #Sarwar must “come clean”.
Earlier this year, #EveryDoctor revealed that MPs had bagged more than £2.7m in donations from people with links to the private healthcare sector.
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#ScottishLabour chief #Sarwar is still being protected by the #media re; questions about his #Labour lord and master in #westminster...
#Sarwar is #supposed to be looking after the interests of the #Scottish People... He doesn't... and never will...
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Reform UK accused of “blatant racism” over by-election advert
https://www.tiktok.com/@bbcphilipsim/video/7507651875609611542
Reform UK accused of “blatant racism” over by-election advert, bbcphilipsim, tiktok
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Who is in the least surprised at this? #JohnSwinney's government are at best ambivalent on the #ClimateEmergency.
They're completely useless, exhausted and out of ideas, and eager to hand over power to #Sarwar's equally useless #Labour party at next years #Holyrood elections.
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"#Labour did not deny that the meeting was connected to the donation...
#Starmer and #Reeves were joined at the event by shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq, as well as Scottish Labour leader Anas #Sarwar and Daniel Johnson MSP, the party’s business spokesperson in Holyrood.
The meeting took place less than two weeks after Bloomberg Trading Facility Ltd, a subsidiary of Bloomberg LP, donated £150,000 to Labour"
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So ... direct action, then? Any bright ideas?
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Sarwar pledges to ‘rescue’ NHS from SNP and Tories | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sarwar-pledges-rescue-nhs-snp-and-tories -
Labour sparks outrage after man who proposed shipping refugee smuggler gangs to Scotland becomes parliamentary candidate | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-sparks-outrage-after-man-who-proposed-shipping-refugee-smuggler-gangs-to-scotland-becomes-parliamentary-candidate#Labour
#Refugees
#SNP
#Flynn
#Sarwar
#Thewliss
#Simon
#Tories
#Scotland
#GE2024
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...It's electoral death to default - as Corbyn does - to always taking the Palestinian side in the context of the slaughter of 1400 civilians by Hamas - that would have lost a lot of votes
But there was a path thru that urged restraint on Israel whilst expressing horror at Hamas
It's notable #khan #drayford #burnham #sarwar all navigated the issue well - #starmer needs to do better
Good to see there is acceptance of a range of views on the matter within #labour