...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'.
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