Dear All
If the UK doesn’t leave the EU on the 31st
of October 2019, you will know one thing, democracy is dead and the illusion
that it exists has been shattered forever. The people of the UK voted to leave
the EU, they won the vote fair and square. The political class transferred sovereign
to the British people and said they would abide by the decision. When
sovereignty was transferred back to Parliament to implement the will of the
people, certain MPs decided to betray us.
This begs the question, who do MPs exactly
represent?
Brexit has raised the most serious
questions about our democracy, in fact a key question is why you should be
loyal to a party if the party isn’t loyal to you? The Labour Party promised
under Jeremy Corbyn to deliver Brexit and respect the vote. Now the Labour
Party has a problem, in a way this problem is more dangerous to them than the
Westminster expenses scandal. In Scotland, if there is an election, the
Scottish Labour Party stands to be effectively wiped out again according to
polls. Can you imagine a Scotland where there are no Labour MPs at Westminster?
It is a hard concept to given the history of the party but increasingly this
scenario isn’t that far-fetched.
Toss into the mix that The Labour Party has
effectively thrown the Scottish operation under the bus recently in favour of
the SNP, and you get a sense of a party that has lost direction to head into
the wrong direction. If you could say anything about the current state of
Scottish Labour is that it needs reform and revival from the grassroots right
up to the very top to combat the threat posed by the SNP. Jeremy Corbyn and
John McDonnell’s strategy appears to want to seize power at any cost, and that
includes making a deal with the Devil.
Although the SNP has previously said under
Nicola Sturgeon that they would put Labour in power under the Ed Miliband
tenure as leader, we all saw how that turned out. They didn’t, but what they
did was to make Scottish Labour seem unviable as a party to vote for. 2015 is
the proof of the pudding, so when Nicola Sturgeon says she is prepared to make
Jeremy Corbyn PM to avoid no-deal Brexit, what she is trying is the same trick
on the public which the SNP used before. When Miliabnd sat on the fence, before
eventually climbing off, he managed in part to wipe out the Labour Party in
Scotland as an electoral force. Ed Miliband was lacking in leadership in so
many ways.
The SNP won 56 MPs, the biggest bunch of
chancers to enter Westminster 2015.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s appeal to
other parties to oust Boris Johnson and form a temporary caretaker
government is a highly dubious maneuver which naturally has attracted the
support of Nicola Sturgeon. Previously the SNP were doing badly, but the
collapse of the Scottish Labour Party in the EU election has given them a boost.
Not by getting more voters but by others not generating enough votes. Recent
polls put the SNP on course for big gains, which is entirely due to the
weakness of other parties mainly Scottish Labour. Recently Kezia Dugdale who
left as an MSP said the maths didn’t work out for Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM.
The fly in the ointment for the Labour
Party could be the effect of the Brexit Party in places such as the North of
England and other strong Brexit supporting areas. However all isn’t sunny and
rosy in the garden for them, they need a raft of policies and need a network of
people in constituencies something they lack. Given Westminster is fought in a
First Past The Post manner, a different type of campaigning is needed, more
local, more focused, which means more bodies on the ground. There is no history
of ‘long campaigns’ by the Brexit Party, and to try and build a network while
at the same time running a six week short campaign is problematic.
When the buzzer is officially sounded,
there are 42 days to make your pitch to the voters, and if you lack bodies, you
will be working night and day trying to get the max impact with whatever
resources you can cobble together. Add to it if you don’t have local knowledge,
you are at a real disadvantage, you see as in all things, you need a plan.
I don’t see a Boris Johnson coup or the
formation of a temporary caretaker government because, it would a mistake.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn needs to face off against Boris Johnson in a
general election, no other option will be seen as honourable by the public. If
this scenario played out, if Corbyn was temp PM, he would have to step down for
the PM in a general election. You don’t stab Caesar in the back and then be
forgiven by the public, didn’t work during the Roman Empire, and won’t work
today.
Under Jeremy Corbyn’s plan, he would table
a no-confidence motion in the current government as soon as the numbers were
there to pass it. He would then lead a “strictly time-limited” administration
to extend the deadline for Brexit and call a general election. You might think
on paper this looks good, but they forget the 17.4 million who will be an angry
mob. Imagine trying to sell a story that explains all this to an unhappy Brexit
voter. Do you talk about democracy, do you talk about how you are representing
them, do you just ignore the entire issue?
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is an opportunist,
she knows that with Scottish Labour weak, divided and involved with
in-fighting, this represents the best chance for her lame duck SNP MPs to hold
onto their meal tickets.
Scottish Conservative Jackson Carlaw said Mr Corbyn
had been more than amiable to "surrendered on a second independence
referendum" to the Nationalists.
He added:
"Both he and [shadow chancellor] John
McDonnell are preparing to hand Nicola Sturgeon the referendum she wants in
exchange for SNP support for a Labour government. Scottish Labour has been left
dangling in the breeze – they are utterly irrelevant even to their own party. It’s
clear who’s in charge of Scottish Labour and it’s not Richard Leonard. It’s a
complete betrayal of thousands of Labour voters in Scotland who
support the Union. It shows once and for all that Corbyn cannot be trusted to
defend Scotland’s decision to remain in the UK."
Finally, history teaches us many lessons on
the subject of betrayal, and for some people, what seems as a good idea at the
time can have consequences.
When people decided to do in Julius Caesar,
there was an aftermath; the result unforeseen by the assassins was that
Caesar's death precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. I really do wonder
if Jeremy Corbyn has thought this idea out; really chew this down to the bone? This
tactic has disaster written all over it, we need unity now because the decision
to leave the EU has been made. In times like this, party interest must be set
aside for national interest. Jeremy Corbyn has two choices; go down in history
as a statesman or as a plotter. Plotter may seem so much fun, but it is
temporary fun, and leaves a bitter after taste. Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for a
general election must be clean; no other scenario can be logically played out
resulting in success.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
5 comments:
He's screwed. IU previously thought that there was a possibility that he might make it, but there's no chance in hell for him now. Not anymore.
It'll be a cold day in hell when I vote for him, George.
I also wish that the other parties in Scotland would wake up, especially the Scottish Conservatives.
Dear Anon
The concept of this plan is totally wrong, I don't understand why they can't see this is advanced self harmed for the party.
George
The only hope is that Corbyn gets slaughtered in a general election, so much that even with a theoretical 59 SNP MPs, they would still have less than the Tories. Not that I particularly want Boris as PM, but it's the better of two evils. Sturgeon needs an election before next year, given the potential damage a court case could inflict on her. As usual politicians don't give a shit about the electorate.
all we have is that Left Tard Davidson. Wot a choice.
It's over for Corbyn. If he lingers much longer it will be over for Labour. But that's hardly liable to break many hearts.
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