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The next Scottish General Election will be held on Thursday, 7 May 2026 not 2025........

Nothing will change until the usual suspects are in power are removed .

There are no safe seats in Scotland any more and no large majorities either. That was finished off in 2015 when the old and fairly reactionary Scottish LP (SLP) machine was swept away. The fact the SNP lost 0.5m votes (15 percentage points) is down to the SNP's failure to deliver - the savage cuts we are suffering - Glasgow loses 300 school teachers this year Mike's own union EIS FELA is in the middle of a savage battle on wages, sackings and the effort to privatise FE for instance. This is combined with the shenanigans of the Sturgeon SNP (money going "missing" the infamous camper van etc) regime and its general air of incompetence (the inability to build ferryboats, the gross state of the huge QEUH hospital etc.). This bumbling incompetence rambled on into Humza Yousaf's ill fated regime until it was brought down in the near comic Green Party coalition farce. It would be interesting to see how many of the 0.5m switched to vote for the SLP and how many stayed at home. You have also to remember that in Glasgow more than half the registered voters don't vote anyway. The SLP also gained from the Loyalist working class - much of which refused to vote for Corbyn in 2019 meaning the SLP vote fell in Scotland. Some of the Tory vote also moved to vote for the SLP - there is across these two groups a notable bloc of Scottish voters who will vote for whoever they think is best placed to keep out the SNP. Here in Glasgow the Tories suffered - their vote split part to SLP and part to Reform who stood "ghost" candidates, but got thousands of votes - there is a base for a racist party unfortunately.

I thought the Scottish had more sense? Why didn't they just go the full monty and vote Conservative?

Scotland is a naturally conservative (small “c”) country.

Ken should be on our screens more, he is a legend 👏🏻

4:15 a bit rich from Graham, who advocated voting for Starmer.

Jackie's conclusion was music to my ears. We need an anti-Starmerism movement with what I call Gallowayean and Novarati wings. We certainly can't let the trans lobby or TERFs start demanding exclusions like the Zionist McCarthyites who've inflicted so much harm upon the left. If the LGBT community can march with Muslims, many of whom are social conservatives even nowadays, then the Gallowayeans and the Novarati have a duty to work together. The pro-Gaza Left Front, including the Greens, needs to rally behind a foundational document i.e. Corbyn's 2017 manifesto. We could even call the new Left Front the '2017 Alliance' or '2017 Movement' or something similar.

Why would Graham Bash want to exclude Greens from a 'left unity' alliance?

Great discussion. These humane socialist anti-war folk give me hope.

The guy from Thanet's got it right. The centre to right Labour members and voters want the Starmer régime's "We're British" team-spirited conservatism and "pragmatic" authoritarianism. The Labour Party will never be the same again. I'm certain that had there been a hung parliament, Starmer wouldnt have tangled himself up in small party coalitioning - he'd have set up confidence and supply with the Tories.

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We also need to talk about what Reform is doing to win over more people. Their manifesto argued for reducing student debt, especially health professionals paying down their debt for every year they work in the NHS and paying it all off after ten years. Hundreds of thousands of indebted graduates in England (and their mums and dads) would welcome that. They are also advocating proportional representation and public ownership of utilities.

Re Clacton, the local Labour activist who resigned in disgust over HQ's treatment of the charismatic young black candidate stated very strongly that locally born Clactonians like herself are different to the Brexity right wing Londoners who retire down there and support Farage. That could mean it is actually a fruitful place to start organising to oust Farage in five years time. Jackie should pop over for a chat!

I’m proud to have supported our new independent MP in Batley and Dewsbury, who was selected as the PPC as a result of communities coming together in true grassroots democracy. It wasn’t perfect and It didn’t involve the whole community because it had to be done in a hurry, but I feel sure that, given more time, it would have been more inclusive. It’s one of the few aspects of the current political scene that gives me any hope for the future.

i love your take onthe independet,s i thougt this for the last year. btw i am a scot and i live in holland thanks Jackie

UK have voters that don't have a clue why or what for, should schools pupils at age of 15 be educated but not forced to understand a bit about UK politics,.

What a pity. This genius man "Roger Waters" always says his wonderful story with his mom when she said to him: "read, read, read, till you do the right thing". But unfortunately he failed to read the Holy Book (which is the Holy Quran) that starts with the word READ. Hence he refuses to believe in God the Almighty who Tells us to read and read and read till we know how to do the right thing. What an irony.

As a Scotsman stepped in trade unionism heritage and Irish imitation who voted no in the referendum and who truly believed in Geremy Corbins vision and the socialist cause I find truly hard to accept how gullible the English working classes are , apart from our commands in Liverpool and Manchester . I truly regret voting no and believe I have nothing in common with kier stammer and his Zionist version of the labour movement

Most certainly me and family will most definitely not vote for any of them other than REFORM 💯🇬🇧

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George Galloway's POV is far more nuanced than that of many of his detractors. His voting record is 'live-and-let-live' when it comes to adult rights, but he's adamant it's up to parents to determine at what age they want their kids exposed to ideas about sexuality and gender. There's a world of difference between sex ed. nodding towards same sex parents, on one hand, and normalising amongst prepubescents and young adolescents gender dysphoria, which many perfectly loving parents consider a form of body dismorphia, a pathology. No social issue should be taboo on the left. Are gendercynic or TERF parents, or those with religious beliefs, including many socially conservative Muslims - currently the conscience of the nation - not allowed to join progressives in opposing neocon-neoliberalism because they have some reservations about the LGBTQ lobby, especially its stridency in schools? This progressive holier-than-thou attitude is what divides the left and the wider proletariat, which Galloway has said many, many times. & he's right yet again. Trans hasbara is a thing. Lest we forget it was Owen Jones and the Novarati who hung out to dry Jackie Walker and other victims of the bogus AS witchhunt - where was progressive 'solidarity' then? GG said it was bollocks from the start. Why would the old school left give Galloway the cold shoulder because he's not an identikit left-lib too? Have they learned nothing from the witchhunt?

great discussion and I can easily face the dilemma many people are having. Folks don't be too hard on Graham, he has clearly said if he was in the constituent where a good Green, or independent left candidate, or someone like Galloway or Chris Williamson he'd vote for them, but apparently unlike JAckie, he's going to vote Labour just as a protest vote against the Tories. Personally I would NEVER EVER vote Labour, I quite frankly would love to vote for Leanne Mohamed, Fiona Lali, Chris Williamson, or the Greens, shit even the Lib Dems's their manifesto greatly better then Labour, and if in Wales or Scotland, since I believe in Welsh and Scottish Independence I'd vote for SNP or Plaid or any other alternative left party that advocates independence. Best case scenario I think is a Labour/Lib-Dem Coalition in which the grassroots left faction of both mobilize to push for a social justice agenda and push back against imperialism. if its LAbour majority, then expect endless austetity and wars but with a more human face unlike the Tories.

Don't really understand why Labour is included in something called Red Line. Labour are not Red and have not been Red for a long time. Labour Party are New Tories

Amazed by Graham's stance here. Some turkeys really will keep voting for Christmas

Why vote at all As a current member of the labour party and ex-treasure and ex-vice chair of what was then my CLP and all that goes with those positions, I have to tell you that I haven't voted since 1997. I see not voting as a positive none vote because of the lack of choice. Since Thatcher, British politics has moved so far to the right that what is now referred to as the centre of politics would been seen as not too far from Mosley's Black Shirts during in the 1930s. Can you imagine the reaction of the media today if there was a need to establish the Kinda Transport in order to save the lives of children from evil dictators. What if Labour lost the 1946 election and the NHS was never formed. Can you imagine the reaction by the likes of Johnson and Rees-Mogg if Corbin had suggested something similar to the NHS as part of the 2019 manifesto. If they didn't think he was from the "Loony Left" they would now. Until there is an all inclusive caring choice, I will continue to positively not vote.

Never Vote for Labour imperial genocide terror party

You have to remember Starmer wont be making the decisions, he`s just the front man, someone more devious will be pulling his strings.

In most cases there are only totally inadequate choices so the problem is not in our heads but in the world we face. So the choice between a Starmerite Labour candidate and a Tory or Reform UK candidate is next to no choice at all. - which doesn't mean we abstain from making a choice. There are some constituencies where I think it is easier for socialists to choose - such as voting Jeremy in Islington North. What I find most difficult to comprehend is the choice not to vote Diane Abbott or Apsana Begum or Zarah Sultana just because they have the Labour whip. It is essential to get socialists in the next Parliament. And were I fit I would be happy not just to vote for them, but also to campaign for them. Do comrades not realise that the fight to get Diane reinstated was a rare victory?

One regret as Chair; I ought to have steered everyone towards an addressing of Galloway's awful homophobia and sexism. His social conservatism should be a line in the sand for the left. His more welcome position on Gaza/Israel doesn't excuse hostility towards women and the LGBTQ community.

Any vote for Labour is a vote to give power to Starmer. I recommend reading 'The Starmer Project' by Oliver Eagleton. Not one vote.

Well,, speaking for someone who was born, nearly seventy years ago, in the then Labour heartlands of the North of England I will never vote for Keir Starmer's Labour Party. My reason is quite simple. Apart from voting for genocide, its policies simply continue the corrupt neo-Liberalism that first afflicted this part of Britain when Margaret Thatcher was elected in 1979. A neo-Liberalism that was reinvigorated under Blair's New Labour project, with initiatives such as PFI. The rotten corruption of neo-Liberalism is now plain to see in any northern town or city you may visit. The real 'choice' in this election is simply between a red brand of neo-Liberalism and a blue one, so I'm seriously thinking of emigrating to Mexico. Even left-leaning media in the English-speaking world focus exclusively on the Mexico's new president being a woman. In Mexico, her victory is seen as endorsement of the fight against the ruling corporations that is raging there. Here's one of the very few English reports which explains why this was a huge victory for the working class, regardless of gender, ethnicity or other aspects of human identity: ruclips.net/video/R7f1vbFtUZE/видео.htmlsi=H5kzm0b-z8fgM_vI .

Jackie Walker and Norman Thomas were a breathe of fresh air to listen to. I am sorry to say the others, remind me of religious folk who stick to churches that violate all their values, something I respect among religious folk because churches provide community and support, something Labour Party is sadly lacking.

Why do you think all these smaller parties are always on the tv debates, when they are not entitled to be there according to the rules? If you want to know who is being paid to maintain the status quo, just look at who are always on these mainstream media debates, and who is always missing and why.

I am enraged and appalled by Jackie Walker, Peter Firmin, all declaring in this video they will either not vote at all, or will vote for either the establishment choicd of the Green Party, even saying she does not really support them. This is a vote for the establishment, Jackie, and you know it. This means you can never call yourself an honest socialist. Peter Firman, saying he would never in a million years vote for the Workers Party. Again this means he is not a socialist. I would like to know why he is so opposed to the only party actively attempting to prevent WW3. We are seeing the US legislating for an automatic draft of 18 to 26 years olds. This means before his feet have touched the ground as PM, Starmer will do the same, and that is what George Galloway means when he says within 6 months of Starmer being PM, Britain will be at war. You are playing with fire and Russian roulette with this, the most serious issue facing us all. Being veterans of the political scene, none of your brains have been fully developed, time to grow up and deal with reality as it is, not your childish fantasy version of reality. Finally, Jackie, why did you say in the aftermath of the Rochdale by-election that you hoped the Workers Party were the beginning of a left wing movement, but now you say you are voting Green, who are not socialists?

Starmer in power will come with the same aloofness that he's made an art form of in opposition. What's worse, his authoritarianism is undeniable and he's also wrapped himself in conservative values and tropes. The direction of travel he could take doesn't bear thinking about and it looks like the electorate is going to give him a mandate with few boundaries, commitments or accountabilities.

A pretty awful set of choices. Thought the Lib Dem manifesto was okay. SNP quite good. I will vote Green as they have a chance in Lancaster and Wyre and while the sitting Labour MP is good I can't bear what Starmer has done to the left

Starmer has Zionist funds on his side, a bottomless pit I understand. Starmer is likely to make crushing the unions his very first task.

Do the right thing... always!

Brilliant!

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Lettuce pray Natalie Elphicke’s ability to spot a winner works as well for Sir Keir… 🥬

Starmer the charmer

that’s Sir CPS Stürmer to you proles, & don’t forget to mention his membership of the Trilateral Commission while you’re at it.

😂 Now we need a comedic version of ‘The Red Flag’ by Shirley Serban to complete the mockery and satire of the L💩 Party and the Glitter Man 🤮!

the elephant in the room is he so desperate?

A worthy rival to nerine Skinner's Liv Struss

Well done 😂😂😂 ✅️

Well said Jackie