#scottishlabour — Public Fediverse posts

'[Monica Lennon] said, “We must be a party where people can believe in fair work… where women’s rights and LGBTQ rights are a shared struggle”. She said that #ScottishLabour had “soul searching” to do and said next leader must “do better” on climate change, and warned “punching down on trans people and minorities is not acceptable”, adding only then will Labour be “worthy of support”' -- @BellaCaledonia

Which is precisely why Lennon has been excluded.

#ScotPol

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/08/18/soul-mining/

Should #ScottishLabour not just merge with the #Conservatives? Their policies are indistinguishable, and they would be a stronger electoral force together.

#ScotPol

"Monica Lennon, the only prospective candidate for leadership who had anything approaching a coherent plan to bail out and repair #Labour’s rapidly sinking Scottish ship, was well and truly shut out of the contest by the boys’ club...

Now Lennon gets to listen to the guys whose backroom machinations kept her off the ballot preach about the importance of party unity. She must be thrilled about that"

#ScottishLabour
#ScotPol

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/26474637.labour-scotland-just-blew-one-last-chance-save/

#ScottishLabour seizes another opportunity to miss an opportunity.

#MonicaLennon waa the left candidate to replace #AnasSarwar as leader of #SLAB. She is experienced, articulate, opposes transphobia, and above all is smart enough fo recognise that it's long past time to split from London Labour.

So of course, the blob squeezed Monica off the ballot. The 2026 Scottish Labour leadership election will be fought between 2 stale, male, pale rightwingers, both loyal to London. 🤮

##scotpol #ukpol

Bizarre statement by #AnasSarwar! 🙄

It's about his decision to eff to London, to a seat in the unelected #HouseOfLords. He will also be a minister for trade, but as a Minster Of State, he will have no power. The prize here is the Lords seat for life

At the end, he refers to his successor, in a context that can only refer to the party leadership. But he never actually says that he is resigning as leader of #ScottishLabour. Is he still leader?

#scotpol#ukpol

A tough 5 years for Scotland's silliest clown show. Traditionally, every other year the leader of #ScottishLabour would be humiliatingly defenestrated, and replaced with someone even less competent.

#AnasSarwar cheated by staying for 5 years, almost a million times the average tenure. The comedy cane from losing elections with increasing severity.

Now he restores the humiliation by crawling to the #HouseOfLords.

#SLAB Leader #11 due soon. Don't blink, or you'll miss them 😅🤣

#scotpol #ukpol

#PaulHutcheon of the #DailRecord is #ScottishLabour's most loyal client journalist. Yet even Paul now recognises that the show is over:

"YouGov’s findings should be a call to arms for anyone in Scottish Labour serious about winning an election again. Creating a new centre-left party for the Scottish Parliament elections should be a pre-requisite."

Article at https://archive.is/mxxve

#scotpol #LabourParty #ScottishPolitics

Helped found both the Scottish Labour Party AND the SNP? Was a ferocious critic of imperialism, racism & cruelty to any human or animal? Bought his favourite horse – an Argentine mustang – from the Glasgow Tramway Company and rode it for twenty years?

3/18

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #Victorian #Edwardian #politics #LabourParty #ScottishLabour #SNP

On Tuesday, the #ScottishParliament elected #JohnSwinney as #FirstMinisterOfScotland.

That's the 5th successive term with an #SNP First Minister.

And it's 23 years since the last election of a #ScottishLabour First Minister: Jack McConnell in 2003.

Labour dominated Scotland for 50 years. When Holyrood was established, Labour was the natural party of government.

Now electing a Labour FM is a fading memory, held by people with greying hair. Labour's colour is turning to sepia.

#scotpol #ukpol

It's worth pointing out that Angus Robertson did not come second behind Lorna Slater, but third, so if @ScottishGreens had not stood in Edinburgh Central, he might still not have won, and indeed #ScottishLabour might have got it.

#Holyrood2026
#ScotPol

@drgeraint this is true. But they won't get an #IndyRef2 that way. The reason I think the SNP *should* bring #ScottishLabour into government is that by throwing a few plums to them in terms of ministerial jobs they could get serious pressure applied to #Westminster to get the referendum agreed.

Mind you, I suspect #Swinney doesn't really want another indyref anyway, and that that is what was behind the stupid 'only SNP votes count' nonsense.

#ScotPol

@radiojammor All the more reason to task #ScottishLabour with privatising the buses. Expose their #corruption and hypocrisy.

We all know that #ScottishLabour are much closer to the #SNP on policies than they are to #UKLabour. So would it be a good thing for Scotland if SNP/ScotLab were to agree a coalition deal in which:

1. ScotLab would support the call for #IndyRef2, but would not necessarily campaign for #ScottishIndependence and
2. ScotLab would get the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, with a remit to nationalise Scotland's buses?

#ScotPol

@nusher @Geri Explain what you mean about the LibDems? I think it's more likely that you would find support for #ScottishIndependence among #ScottishLabour than among the #LibDems.

#YouGov's final MRP of the 2026 #Holyrood election shows the #SNP falling short of a majority, but on course for a fifth term in office. #ScottishGreens are surging, but #SLAB #ScottishLabour is in deep trouble.

SNP: 62 seats (-5 from 23 Mar-8 Apr)
Ref: 19 (-1)
Lab: 17 (+2)
Grn: 16 (+5)
LD: 8 (-1)
Con: 7 (=)

images from https://x.com/YouGov/status/2051966019405521162

#scotpol

Reform candidate does not 'care' about carbon dioxide in climate change row

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/reform-candidate-not-care-carbon-37088252

#ScottishLabour are committing in their manifesto to:

> Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex (page 16) and

> Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life (page 52)

This means, essentially, excluding #Trans transgender citizens from hospitals, schools. sports facilities, and other public spaces.

Is this a Scotland you want to live in?

h/t @iaruffell

#ScotPol

Well, it appears that #ScottishLabour have gone full transphobe.

To think that in the last parliament they were solidly behind #GenderRecognitionReform. Whichever way you slice it, they are succeeding only in giving categorical proof of being both unprincipled and bigoted.

#transphobia #ScotPol #UKPol



This isn't the vote winner that #ScottishLabour thinks it is. "Bring back air pollution & congestion". Nope.
https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/04/06/labour-want-to-end-the-war-on-motorists/

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/

#scotpol #ukpol #LabourParty #Sarwar

Anas's big idea.

#Sarwar #Scotpol #ScottishLabour #ukpol

If you were feeling a bit bored with the Labour politician's paedo pal story, and have had more than #enough of #Mandelson ... Well, you're in luck.

And now for something completely different: a female Scottish Labour politician's paedo pal. Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP was also hanging out with her paedo pal after he was jailed.

https://news.stv.tv/politics/scottish-labour-suspends-msp-pam-duncan-glancy

#Scotpol #ukpol #ScottishLabour #paedo #SLAB

@2legged This is #ScottishLabour we're talking about. They've enough faces between them to form a government.

#ScotPol

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.

#SLAB #Scotpol #ukpol

How far does Epstein's poisonous taint go?

#PeterMandelson #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ClanOfPaedophiles #Labour #ScottishLabour