Nest of Fearties – After Hamilton
Brian Leishman MP and Jonathon Shafi discuss the results and wider implications of this week’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. Follow Skotia Media here.
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If the SNP cannot get its act together, then it is time to remove them at this stage in the game. We need a party whose sole aim is independence. We all know Scotland is being asset-stripped and the longer it goes the poorer we will be
Maybe the electorate don’t see the SNP standing clearly for anything beyond being in office, so a popular member doesn’t transfer that popularity to a successor? Whereas Labour is still seen (however dubiously) as a reliable label?
I watched Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964) which features a quartet of proto-Reformittys, shown recently on Talking Pictures TV, which develops a kind of ethos:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251476/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1
People wanting to feel better about themselves regardless of their own objective or subjective (or collective’s) failings, which is the utility of racism for the racist, gang membership for the thug or elite membership for the elitist, pride in lust, and the British imperial exceptionalism built on myth and rejection of history and science that Reform and others clamour for.
If you’re sick of politics, perhaps voting for someone considered unlikely to be exposed for scandal or criminality during their period of office, bringing shame and foisting another by-election onto your constituency, is a bigger reason than most others.
Then again, if you’re sick of politics, it may well be that our politics is sick, and produces sickness in us and in those entering the political class. If Reform most epitomises today those who wish to get away with vices and crimes, then Labour’s consistent support and direction in power for the centuries-long (generations of their existence) crime spree of the British Empire is no valid alternative. Labour cannot even endorse a mild republicanism, so their pretence at egalitarianism is derisory.
The living world is vastly bigger and far more valuable than these petty yet dangerous fixations on the fickle wills and narrow interests of humans, within or outwith electoral and parliamentary politics.