After last Wednesday’s disgraceful scenes in the House of Commons when Speaker Lindsay Hoyle acceded to pressure from Labour leader Keir Starmer to trash Commons conventions and effectively to turn what was supposed to be an SNP Opposition day debate on a ceasefire in Gaza into a Labour Opposition day debate, compounded by Monday’s arrogantly disrespectful decision by Hoyle not to allow the SNP another opportunity to hold another debate on a ceasefire in Gaza, the time has come to ask whether there is any purpose left in SNP and Alba MPs remaining in a Parliament in which parties supporting Scottish independence are treated with such naked contempt.

On Sunday, Labour MP Chris Bryant, who had jumped to his feet in the Commons chamber immediately after Prime Minister’s Questions had finished, admitted that he was engaging in grubby manipulation of the rules of the House in order to delay the business of the Commons passing as it ought to have done. While Bryant was on his feet humming and hawing and deliberately wasting time, Starmer had barged into the Speaker’s office to demand that Hoyle break with parliamentary convention and allow a debate on Labour’s amendment to the SNP motion even though Hoyle had been warned by the senior Clerk of the Commons that doing so risked the SNP motion not being debated at all. In the event that is exactly what happened.

A furious SNP contingent marched out of the Commons chamber in disgust in protest at the naked contempt in which the party was being treated. All this happened because Starmer was desperate to get out of a hole he had dug for himself. Starmer’s repeated refusal to issue a clear condemnation of the war crimes Israel is committing in Gaza in disproportionate retaliation for the war crimes committed by Hamas in Israel on 7 October last year, compounded with his mealy mouthed semantic games instead of making a clear and unequivocal call for an immediate ceasefire has created considerable disquiet on the Labour benches. Had the SNP motion gone ahead for debate and a vote as it ought to have done, Starmer faced the prospect of the largest rebellion amongst Labour MPs he has faced in his four years of lying and duplicitous control freakery leadership.

But rather than man up and face and own the consequences of his own actions, Starmer instead decided to twist the rules of Parliament and strongarmed a weak and compliant Speaker into doing his bidding, in doing so he deprived Scotland’s largest contingent of MPs of their voice in the Westminster Parliament. He also gave us a lesson about his true character, and proved that he and the Labour party he has dragged to the right do not represent the meaningful change that they purport to. With Starmer we will only see more of the same underhand accountability dodging undemocratic machinations that we have grown wearily familiar with under the Tories.

The reasons for the decision to trash Commons convention in such a grubby and underhand manner were blatantly and screamingly obvious, but Hoyle and Starmer attempted to justify their actions with intelligence insulting bollocks about protecting the safety of MPs.

Hoyle’s position was severely damaged as a result of his pandering to Starmer’s authoritarianism. Stephen Flynn, the leader of the SNP at Westminster, told the Chamber that the Speaker had lost the confidence of the SNP, the third largest party in the Commons. A motion was presented by a Tory MP calling for a vote of no-confidence in Hoyle. Many Tories were also unhappy with the Speaker after he displayed such blatant favouritism. The Speaker is supposed to be neutral and unbiased, a Speaker who does favours for one party at the expense of another is anything but, and does not deserve to remain in post.

For a few days Hoyle’s position looked very precarious. In an attempt to fend off his critics the Speaker promised the SNP another debate on a ceasefire in Gaza, however over the weekend the move to oust him lost steam, and by Monday Hoyle felt confident enough to go back on his word and curtly informed the SNP that they would not be getting another debate after all.

SNP Westminster group leader Stephen Flynn raised a point of order in the House of Commons chamber on Monday afternoon, asking why the party’s application for a debate under Standing Order 24 (SO24) had not been accepted despite the Speaker’s promise last week that the party could have one. During the uproar over his decision last week, Hoyle had said: “I would say that we can have an SO24 (Standing Order 24) to get an immediate debate because the debate is so important to this House.”

Secure in his position, it was back to dismissive contempt from Hoyle. Hoyle told the SNP leader that he did not usually have to give reasons for refusing a debate, but said as a UK Government statement is due to be heard on Tuesday, there would be an opportunity for the issue to be discussed then. Trot along, annoying little separatist, your British masters have spoken.

This shabby incident merely confirms that Scotland only ever gets a hearing at Westminster when Westminster’s power is threatened, but the second that the threat is neutralised, any promises that had been made will be trashed. Let that be a lesson to anyone in Scotland who is foolish enough to consider voting Labour at the next general election in order to get the Tories out.

Scotland cannot get a hearing at Westminster where Scotland’s MPs are hopelessly outnumbered, we saw that recently when an Alba motion to give the Scottish parliament the power to hold an independence referendum was voted down by MPs representing seats outwith Scotland. However even when Scotland’s MPs look able to hold the parties of British nationalism to account as they did with the Gaza ceasefire debate last week, Labour and the Tories will change the rules so that they can’t.

The lesson is clear for voters in Scotland. Scotland needs strong representation in Westminster from real Scottish parties, not wholly owned subsidiaries of the Labour or Tory leadership, and those Scottish parties need to be willing to exploit every arcane rule and procedure to be disruptive and a real thorn in the flesh of those Conservative and Labour parties which treat the Scottish electorate with such naked contempt. That contempt must be repaid in kind.

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On Wednesday MPs were due to debate and vote upon an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza describing the wanton slaughter of Palestinians by the misnamed Israeli ‘Defence’ Forces as collective punishment, which constitutes a war crime under international law.

Starmer refused to support the SNP motion because of those two words. The SNP published its motion last week. Labour said they were talking to the SNP about it which was untrue. SNP whip Owen Thompson said that he had had no contact from Labour about finding an amended wording which Starmer could allow Labour MPs to support. SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn also wrote to Starmer suggesting they talk about the issue. However Starmer didn’t bother to reply.

Instead Starmer put forward a wrecking amendment to the SNP motion, removing any reference to collective punishment and reiterating Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas. Under normal circumstances and following convention the Speaker would not have selected Starmer’s amendment for debate on what was supposed to be an SNP Opposition Day debate. By doing so he pulled the rug from under the SNP and turned an SNP Opposition Day debate into a Labour Opposition day debate.

Hoyle made this decision against the advice of the chief clerk to the Commons, Tom Goldsmith, who warned that it risked the SNP motion not being debated at all. Goldsmith told Hoyle that his decision had no precedent in the last 25 years and that it would depart from “long-established convention”.

Keir Starmer was desperate to avoid a debate on the SNP motion because there were reports that a significant number of his MPs would rebel and vote for the SNP motion, including a number of his front bench team. That was an embarrassment that Starmer was determined to sidestep, and so he met with Hoyle privately and pressured him to make a ruling that was very much a party political favour although both Hoyle and Starmer deny that was the case. However that is very much the impression that was created. Hoyle was a Labour MP for two decades before resigning from his party, as convention dictates, upon being elected Speaker in 2019.

SNP MP Stewart McDonald said Hoyle was guilty of doing his old party a “nakedly political favour”. The Speaker is supposed to be politically neutral, but Hoyle has now put his neutrality in doubt, calling into question his suitability for the post. Westminster is rife with rumours that Starmer threatened to replace Hoyle as Speaker after the next general election if he did not do Starmer this favour. Naturally Starmer has denied that there is any, truth to these rumours, which we can file under, “Well he would say that wouldn’t he?”

Hoyle is now claiming that he made the decision out of concern for the safety of MPs who could find themselves facing protests because they had failed to vote for the SNP motion. This excuse merely raises another question, is the business of Parliament to be dictated by mob rule?

Notwithstanding his subsequent apology, Hoyle did not make a “mistake”. He made a considered decision to take a Labour Amendment, against all the conventions of the House of Commons , despite having been told by the Clerks that doing so would risk the SNP Motion being debated. He did this at the behest of the Labour Party. It’s that simple.

The SNP is rightly furious with Hoyle, he has created the impression that he favours a party that’s going to keep him in his job and is willing to treat the SNP, the third largest party in the Commons, with utter contempt in order to curry favour with the man who is likely to become the next Prime Minister.

Starmer has also behaved appallingly, trashing the rules of the Commons in order to get himself out of a spot of local difficulty and then brazenly gaslighting us all about it. It’s shameful and underhanded, proving that the leader of the Labour party cares more about his standing in opinion polls than he does about the lives of the Palestinians of Gaza. In doing so Starmer is proving that he is every bit as much a duplicitous and authoritarian moral vacuum as the Tories he promises to be a ‘change’ from. He will be no change at all.

Labour has rightfully called out Tories for undermining democracy at Westminster, yet Keir Starmer has today admitted that he pressured the Speaker of the House of Commons into changing a long-established procedure merely in order to get him out of a hole he had dug for himself with his refusal to countenance any criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza. He is merely disputing the details of what was said and by whom.

There will now be no Commons debate highlighting the dreadful suffering being endured by the people of Gaza, all because Keir Starmer cannot countenance any criticism of the indiscriminate killing and the destruction of homes and civilian infrastructure being carried out by a far right Israeli government which scarcely bothers to disguise its genocidal intent. All the civilian deaths, all the killed and maimed children, all the bombed out homes and hospitals and schools, they’re just a series of unfortunate oopsies as far as Starmer is concerned.

The SNP walked out of the Chamber in disgust and frustration with Hoyle’s decision. The odds are already heavily stacked against Scotland in that dysfunctional stew of corruption with the majority of Scotland’s MPs being routinely voted down by the much larger number of MPs from the rest of the UK, even on issues of central concern to Scotland specifically. Yet with this decision Starmer and Hoyle have demonstrated their willingness to ensure that the voices of Scotland’s representatives won’t even get a hearing.

Stephen Flynn has declared the SNP no longer have confidence in Hoyle as more and more MPs sign a motion of no confidence in the Speaker.

The entire sordid and dismal episode is a farce.If it wasn’t obvious before why we need an independent Scotland, this travesty has made it crystal clear. The UK Parliament had the opportunity to do the right thing, instead self-serving Westminster reminded us how utterly broken it is, and all because Keir Starmer didn’t like two words, ‘collective punishment’. Here’s two other words Starmer won’t like, ‘Labour duplicity’, ‘Westminster dysfunction,’ or ‘Labour = Tory’

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The Labour party’s Scottish accounting unit held its spring conference in Glasgow over the weekend, an event mainly focused on creating the fiction that the Labour party in Scotland is is distinct entity with a political identity and policies distinct from those of the UK Labour party in the iron grip of that right wing union flag shagger Keir Starmer. Labour in Scotland is of course permitted to have its own policies in arenas in which the wider UK party has no presence, such as the Scottish Parliament, and relating to devolved matters, but when it comes to Westminster general elections and representation in the House of Commons ‘Scottish’ Labour is merely a branding exercise for the UK Labour party in Scotland despite what Anas Sarwar would have us believe with the active collusion of BBC Scotland, another London controlled Scottish branding exercise.

Labour MPs who represent Scottish constituencies in the House of Commons absolutely do not constitute a distinct grouping – if you can have a group of two that is. Ian Murray and Michael Shanks, the world’s worst boy band, more Sham! than Wham!

The most notable thing to come out of the weekend was Anas Sarwar telling an interviewer, in essence, that the people of Scotland should vote Labour in order to protect Scotland from Keir Starmer, with Sarwar vowing that he’d stand up to Starmer on issues on which they disagreed, of which there seems to be a long and ever lengthening list, from the two child cap on benefits to a ceasefire in Gaza, where over 29,000 people have died since Israel launched its assault in October.

So how exactly is that ‘standing up’ working out for you Anas? Starmer shows no inclination to budge on any of the issues which the branch office purportedly disagrees with, and Scotland’s Labour MPs obediently do Starmer’s bidding, not Sarwar’s. There is no such thing as a “Scottish Labour” party with a different set of policies from UK Labour, certainly not when it comes to a Westminster general election. Labour MPs representing Scottish constituencies in the Commons take the Labour whip and do not vote distinctly from their colleagues representing seats in England or Wales. The anti-independence media in Scotland have not leapt upon how ludicrous it is that a party leader in Scotland has to promise that he’ll stand up against the unpopular policies of his UK party boss, even less that we all know the promise is hollow.

The Commons voting record of Michael Shanks is a case in point. He was elected by making all the same promises that Anas Sarwar is making right now. He was his own man, he told us, he was opposed to the vile two child benefit cap which Starmer has shamefully said he’s not going to abolish. Yet in his short time in Westminster he has proven that he’s obedient lobby fodder for Starmer, never raising his voice against those policies he supposedly disagrees with.

At their spring conference in Glasgow, the branch office delegates overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Keir Starmer will naturally pay close attention to this resolution passed by the McMinions before filing it under “Yeah, whatevs.”

Anas Sarwar has since taken to the airwaves trying to make out that this resolution is really not that different from Starmer’s position at all, oh no. This is despite the fact that Starmer repeatedly refuses to make a simple call for a ceasefire and even as the death toll of innocent civilians mounts and the evidence of war crimes being committed by the Israeli armed forces grows overwhelming, Starmer still will not unequivocally condemn the actions of the Israeli forces. Instead all we get are a series of mealy mouthed semantic games..

This week the SNP is putting pressure on Labour to support a Commons motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as the Israeli forces are poised to mount an all out ground assault on the Gazan city of Rafah, into which about 1.5 million desperate Palestinians are crammed, having fled there after Israel told them it was a safe haven. The death toll could be catastrophic, adding thousands more to the 29,000 who have already lost their lives. The need for a ceasefire has never been more urgent.

Following the news that the SNP were to table a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire, Anas Sarwar told the BBC that Labour whips had made contact with SNP whips ahead of the vote. This was immediately denied by the SNP, who insisted that the claim was “entirely unfounded.”

“I know our whips have already made contact with SNP whips to say, ultimately, we both want the same thing,” Sarwar told the BBC’s Martin Geissler. “We both want the violence to stop right now.” Sarwar had made a similar comment to the press at the Labour conference in Glasgow on Saturday.

Sarwar was simply up to the old Labour trick of telling the Scottish public what he thought it wanted to hear, while behaving very differently behind the scenes safe in the knowledge that BBC Scotland won’t call him out over the contradiction and that the uncomfortable truth would quickly be glossed over. Making stuff up is a hoary Labour tactic for getting through potentially awkward interviews.

SNP chief whip Owen Thompson said it was “entirely untrue” that contact had been made.

He wrote on Twitter: “[Martin Geissler,] just listening to your interview with Anas Sarwar on #SundayShow. He claims Labour whips are discussing ceasefire vote with SNP whips. As SNP chief whip I can say this is entirely untrue as there has been no contact with me.”

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn added: “I’m deeply confused that Anas Sarwar took it upon himself to go on national television and to effectively lie and mislead the people of Scotland regarding Labour whips speaking to SNP whips. That has not happened – that is categorically untrue.I think that does Anas Sarwar a deep dis-service – maybe he’s been spun a line by UK Labour and he’s fallen for it, but it hasn’t happened.”

But the Labour party in Scotland will continue to lie and to mislead. They know they won’t be held to account for it by the media in Scotland, anything to fend off their biggest fear, a self confident Scotland set on independence.

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The Tories are in meltdown this week as two by elections loom in what were nominally safe Conservative seats in the English Tory heartlands, although given the current state of the party there is no longer such a thing as a safe seat for the Tories. Febrile back bench MPs are wailing that the party is locked into a death spiral and that defeat in the two seats is now priced in even though under normal circumstances both seats should have been safe holds for the party.

Should the Conservatives lose the two parliamentary seats, one in Kingswood in South Gloucestershire and the other in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, the party will exceed its record of by-election defeats in a single parliament and will pile further pressure on a beleaguered Prime Minister who has little personal popularity amongst his MPs. Sunak was anointed leader after the disaster of Liz Truss because he was viewed as a safe pair of hands who could turn the party’s electoral fortunes around, but instead the Tories continue to face the likelihood of near annihilation at the next general election and their woes continue to mount.

The by election in Wellingborough is taking place because the former Conservative MP Peter Bone was removed from his role after more than 10% registered constituents signed a recall petition when the far right MP was suspended from Parliament for six weeks after the Parliament’s behaviour watchdog, the Independent Expert Panel, found he had broken sexual misconduct rules by indecently exposing himself to a staff member during an overseas trip and had committed numerous bullying acts including verbally belittling, physically striking and throwing things at the same staff member. Bone continues to deny the accusations.

The Kingswood by election is being held because sitting MP Chris Skidmore, resigned in protest at the Sunak’s decision to issue more oil and gas licences. Skidmore announced his resignation on 5 January and stood down three days later. Skidmore was Interim Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth from May to July 2019, during which time he signed the UK’s Net Zero pledge into law.

Skidmore had been covering the post for Claire Perry O’Neill, who was ill. She herself resigned from the Conservatives in January 2023, claiming that the party had become dominated by ideology and self-obsession. She praised Keir Starmer and backed him to provide “sober, fact-driven, competent political leadership”. Another sign that Starmer’s Labour party provides a comfortable home for disaffected Conservatives who see their party’s chances of holding on to power evaporating. Former Conservative leadership contender Rory Stewart is a big fan of Starmer’s and with the entitled arrogance of an old Etonian has said he be happy to serve in a Starmer government. Now former Boris Johnson fanboy Rod Stewart has said he too now backs Starmer as the next Prime Minister.

Some Tories are growing so desperate that there are even reports that some MPs on the right of the party want to bring Boris Johnson back in some capacity. Liz Truss’s Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has called on Sunak to “swallow some pride” and bring back Johnson, describing the disgraced liar as an “electoral force.”

Despite Johnson’s many and repeated lies, his corruption, indolence and the chaos of his administration, he retains a significant following amongst Tory MPs who are now so unhinged and detached from reality that they believe Johnson can win the next election for them.

Yet this crazy, reality challenged party is the one that Keir Starmer chases after, ditching any Labour policy that might attract the ire of the spittle flecked Tory right. Labour leaders always do this, making vaguely left wing promises when seeking the leadership or when in the wilderness of hopeless opposition, but ditching them as soon as a snifter of power hoves into view. This has been the trick Labour has played for decades and which it keeps on playing. It’s the trick Labour is playing right now as Starmer tours the UK, promising ‘change’. The only change he really offers is changing him for Rishi Sunak, everything else will remain the same. Westminster will remain incapable of holding the increasingly presidential powers of the Prime Minister to account.

The House of Lords will continue to be an affront to democracy and Starmer will fully avail himself of the powers of patronage that appointing life peers affords him. Labour has long complained about the inbuilt Tory majority in the Lords, expect Starmer to tackle that by doling out swathes of peerages of his own, some of whom may very well be those former Tories who have switched their support to him. The affront to democracy will only get worse.

While Starmer leaves the dysfunction of Westminster untouched because he benefits personally and politically by keeping things as they are, the rich will continue to enrich themselves, the poor will continue to struggle, migrants will continue to be demonised, the UK will continue to involve itself in wars in the Middle East.

Labour’s pursuit of Conservative insanity is if anything worse than the Tory insanity that Starmer seeks to ape. The Tories are genuine believers, cruel, callous and inhumane. Starmer is merely a cynical opportunist, bereft of all principle except an unshakeable belief in his right to power. He’s Tony Blair 2.0 and any government he leads will very quickly become very unpopular indeed as the ‘change’ he keeps harping on about fails to materialise.

In other news, which is bound to receive wall to wall coverage in a Scottish media which is clearly obsessed with ship building failures, the Royal Navy’s flagship vessel, the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has left Portsmouth a day late after postponing its scheduled departure for a NATO exercise at the last minute. The ship, which was due to replace its sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth after it broke down a week ago. Retired Rear Admiral Chris Parry told the BBC the fleet’s carriers were getting a “reputation for not being reliable”.

In 2022, HMS Prince of Wales broke down off the Isle of Wight, when it also suffered a malfunction with a coupling on its starboard propeller. The two ships were built at a cost of £6.2 billion, nearly double the original £3.9 billion estimate. The ships, built in Scottish yards, were forecast to come into service in 2012, but the first did not come into service until 2017 while the second came into service two years later. Since then both have been dogged by a litany of mechanical failures and breakdowns. No doubt we can look forward to intense scrutiny by the Scottish media telling us how this proves that the government responsible is not fit for purpose. But the ferries, ammarite?

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