Dear All
One of the minor themes which certain people in the Labour
Party have been pushing is the need for an early General Election, we had an
election in 2015, and then in two short years we had another election.
There is no appetite by the people to have a third in so
short a space of time, and you can add to it that it would be unwelcome and
unhelpful.
The task set to the Conservative Government is to deliver
Brexit; that is the mandate that Theresa May along with her Cabinet has to
deliver. The clock is ticking but the general direction of travel is out!
Brian Wilson, says we need we need another general election
so that parties would be forced to state their positions on Brexit.
Aside from the fact that no one has sown up their mouths, we
only need to hear from one Party, The Conservative Party; the party who will
deliver the end of our EU Membership. If anyone wishes to comment post Brexit
on the deal, let them jump right in and make their pitch.
Brian Wilson says we might not have long to wait citing the
Windrush scandal.
And……. over the key issue of a customs union!
Personally, I don’t favour the Custom union or membership of
the single market or any concoction that makes and ties us to membership
without representation.
Only a fool would do that scenario.
Wilson says; that it is unusual to advocate a general
election without the slightest idea of how it would turn out but these are
exceptional times. If we use the recent English Council elections as an
indicator, the Labour Party made modest gains, it wasn’t a great performance. If
you add in the Scottish dimension, the party in Scotland is in no fit state to
campaign and win in a three way fight with the SNP and Conservatives.
What has Scottish Labour being doing of late?
Well, at Holyrood campaigning on minor issues which they
cannot change, being seen as a one trick pony on Health, and painting certain
sections of the white community as ‘racist’. If an election was called, how
comfortable would Labour activists be standing on a doorstep saying ‘vote
Labour’?
All it would take for a householder to blow them apart would
be to ask one word…. Why?
Policies win elections, good policies and where are they, where
is the Scottish Labour vision, is it a party trick only brought out six weeks
before the election like the family silver?
In this parliament at Holyrood during this term, what has
Scottish Labour achieved, the biggie was the repeal of the Fitba Act, a minor
piece of legislation which was unfit for purpose.
I think people will need a lot more before they pledge to
vote for the party on that statement of intent.
Finally, if anyone is interested in the next General
Election, they should plan for 2022. The reason is simple, the Conservatives
will have done Brexit, and had a few years for it to bed in before more changes
occur. Anyone crying out for another election at this juncture is effectively
talking into the wind. The Labour Party should be glad the election ball is in
the long grass, they need time to sort themselves out and rebuild. The Labour problems of racism, Anti-Semitism
and crime make for painful reading
If you google you can find stuff rather easily.
This article doesn’t take into account another problem that
the party has electing stupid and lazy useless people who think they are too
good to take up voters complaints, the bonus that Scottish Labour received by
default in recent elections was that the people terminated their lifestyle.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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