Starmer’s Labour collapses in Scotland (and England/Wales) – SNP on track for 39/57 seats

Scottish voters hate what they’ve seen of Starmer and mini-Starmer Sarwar

Voters in Scotland and around the UK are continuing to abandon Keir Starmer’s Labour, causing a collapse in the party’s projected number of parliamentary seats at the next election regardless who is leading the Tory party, according to the latest poll of Westminster voting intention. The party also had a horrendous set of by-elections last night, losing a hatful of the seats it was defending and showing huge declines in vote share – as much as half in some places.

The collapse is most decisive in Scotland, where the SNP – which itself collapsed to lose three quarters of its seats in July – resurgent to take an expected landslide of thirty-nine seats instead of the nine it managed in this year’s general election – but Labour would lose one hundred and one seats next time round if the standings remain the same. The biggest beneficiary of Labour’s collapse in England would be the neo-fascist Reform ‘party’, again demonstrating the severe danger that Starmer’s visionless, red-Tory so-called ‘centrism’ poses to the future of the UK.

The collapse is being widely portrayed, at least where it’s getting a mention, as a damning verdict on Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. But Sarwar got the job after left-winger Richard Leonard was ousted by Starmer to please rich donors and the Scottish party has long been, with the exception of the Corbyn years, treated by the Labour establishment as a branch of the English party and expected to do as it’s told. There is little doubt that the collapse is driven primarily by Starmer’s enthusiasm for genocidal Israel and his and his Chancellor’s massive escalation of Tory austerity, alongside the fact that Sarwar is politically a mini-Starmer and would never be allowed by Starmer to hold the job if he were not.

The SNP, for all its flaws, looks appetising to Scottish voters by comparison to the toxic blancmange Starmer’s Labour offers.

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