Me- "I want the SNP beating Labour to alter Labour's policy towards Scotland"

Scottish Labour will go absoutley mental if he's still in place for these AND they've been overtaken by Reform in May.

There is no bad Scottish food. Each of the many foodstuffs we are mocked for is actually class. Haggis. Deep fried pizza. Clootie dumpling if you get an ok one. [stirring Braveheart music rising] Square sausage. Rowies. Puddings black and white. Deep fried Mars bar. Fuck your jellied eels. Vote Yes.

Underrated pressure point on Starmer if he stays post-7 May is the double by-elections in Scotland in what are nominally marginal SNP-Labour seats that will be fought before summer end.

I'll be honest with you, people don't like Keir on the door but it's not over this Mandelson thing. They don't like him personally

Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt

If Nicola Sturgeon had a majority in the Scottish Parliament equivalent to what Starmer has, we would be an independent republic in the EU by now and she'd *still* be in charge.

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Labour needs to just accept that they have in fact, fucked it.

John Swinney, a man who has been around government since 2007, is about to win a fifth term after taking over a party in freefall and his former boss having been *arrested*. And that's with an insanely more hostile media environment.

Feel like it should be bigger news that the Home Secretary is very publicly losing the plot

It is incredibly sinister and racist that the Home Secretary is joking about deporting a Jewish man and a black woman. This government deserves oblivion.

Neat little encapsulation of how important the devolved elections are in the psyche of many national party leaders.

in other words, whitewash the british empire as well as english subjugation of the welsh people and our culture and language.

i've been saying this lol. it's very funny to see rightwingers in the celtic fringe jump on the reform bandwagon. i'm a foreign migrant? ok, well, you're a national traitor, so.

I honestly don't think it makes a difference now. Their last chance was Feb. Any removal just guarantees the press amplifying a Labour internal struggle. This is the worst of all worlds for them.

Genuinely the thing is....obviously he'd do this? I don't get why they engaged in the fiction that firing Robbins would solve anything? Ed miliband should find a way to turn copium into energy, God knows the pm produces enough to make us energy independent

Anas Sarwar is going to be asked every day from now until the election "do you still think the Prime Minister should resign and who should replace him?" But the smart question that he'll struggle with if pressed is "why do you still support staying in the UK Labour party?"

The idea that any UK party can have a branch that competes seriously in Scottish elections after this is for the birds. You're outright disadvantaging yourself for zero-long-term benefit.

Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, undone by his ancient foe, the Scottish and UK Labour Parties.

They had *months* to fix this. Anas Sarwar presented them with a golden chance and they doubled down to guarantee more Mandelson stories will dominate the headlines.

Have been bullish on Labour minimising losses but honestly, I am now thinking I've underpriced SNP gaining Dumbarton in a surprise shock.

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Shame we're no longer getting reputable Scottish polls and instead just getting MRP chicanery, so they'll just hallucinate bizarre outcomes rather than tell us whether Scottish Labour are actually going to take any more damage

(actually I have a poll I commissioned out later this week but shhh)

He's so cooked. Two weeks out from major elections. Couldn't have come at a better time if you want to guarantee a bloody nose to the Labour Party.

the arc of history is long but it bends, confusingly, towards Peter Mandelson accidentally making Kemi Badenoch the Prime Minister

like Matt Walsh and the average Restore Britain guy are absolutely convinced the US and UK are plagued by crime... and no?

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Head of state should be an elected Guardian of Scotland, with the Ceann-cinnidh reporting to him as head of government

"Prime Minister of Scotland" "President of Scotland" some imagination please

I am not interested in copying two of the most outdated systems in the democratic world

I loathe any discussions of a potential independent Scottish political system that pretends the US or the UK are the only choices.

I absolutely hate Americans and Brits talking about each other's political systems because whether they think theirs is superior or inferior it becomes clear they are generally unaware others exist :)