Scottish Labour must be able to disagree with UK party without fear of reprisal
The two candidates running to become the next leader of Scottish Labour have been urged to demand answers on whether Anas Sarwar's split with Keir Starmer damaged the party's Holyrood election campaign.
Just For Scotland has written to Joe Fagan and Michael Marra to seek clarity from the UK party following reports it tried to scupper Sarwar's campaign to become first minister after he called for Starmer to quit in February.
As reprisal is a fundamental political tactic and always has been, this request is delightfully ironic. Good grief, without reprisal directed at political enemies simply for being political enemies, the Labour Party as we know it would disappear into the mephitic mists of history.
Governments also promote fear of reprisal as a general behavioural manipulation tool within the voting population. Censorship too, this unlovely feature of life has its reprisal aspect. Anything from vocal political dissent on sensitive issues to ridicule or parody may be caught in the reprisal net.
"Politically correct" has come to mean safe from official reprisal.
3 comments:
And yet the politicos *still* don't fear the electorate. I guess one of the attractions of the Uniparty is that there are few alternatives available so the wishes of the electorate carry little weight. Until the next General Election perhaps?
Anything which damages the Labour (AKA Scum) Party gets my vote.
DJ - the electorate seems to be too predictable to be feared by Uniparty leaders. Some may lose their seats in a general election, but other doors open and they know it.
Mike - it gets my vote too, anything to weaken and divide it politically.
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