...then allow us to hold them for you.
Just hold your noses and vote Labour... Anas Sarwar in desperate plea to voters
A desperate Anas Sarwar has begged angry voters to ‘hold their nose’ and back Labour at Holyrood despite another disaster for Keir Starmer.
The Scottish Labour leader admitted there was ‘a deep unpopularity with the UK Labour government’ but claimed there was no ‘automatic read across’ to May’s election.
He said: ‘I get people’s frustration. I get people’s anger. But this is our best chance, perhaps our only chance, to end SNP rule.
‘So, whether you do it with enthusiasm, whether you do it with anger, or if you do it by holding your nose, let’s come together and back the only party that can get rid of this incompetent SNP government.’
I do not hold that the political and social system that creates an aristocracy of leisure is the best possible kind of human organization; I perceive its disadvantages clearly enough. But I do hold that a system under which most important public trusts, political and professional, civil and military ecclesiastical and secular, are held by educated men — that is, men of trained faculties and disciplined judgment — is not an altogether faulty system.
Ambrose Bierce - The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays (1909)
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But if you keep holding your nose you are more likely to encourage an outbreak of activism. In which case you might argue that the 'hold you nose principle' no longer works for the previous 'main parties' since they are increasingly 'riven'.
Does "educated" mean "agreeing with us"?
DJ - they would also develop speech impediments so dobody would quite do what they were sayig.
James - these days they usually do seem to agree with each other, especially if they want those PPE degrees.
Scottish Labour and the SNP (along with the Scottish Lib Dems) are completely indistinguishable from each other, policy-wise. Gender recognition, net zero... I can't think of a single area where they disagree. Even on the constitution, they're both devolutionist parties, despite what the SNP might like to tell their voters. It makes no difference - Scotland will be wading through the grey porridge of central belt socialism for the next five years regardless.
Stewart - "Scotland will be wading through the grey porridge of central belt socialism for the next five years regardless."
Ha ha, I like that. Certainly from well south of the border I've never seen any worthwhile difference between them. Something else which has always seemed painfully clear from south of the border is that Scotland deserves much better.
"allow us to hold them for you." Led by the nose!
djc - and they are, may as well have a ring through it.
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