EXCL: A Scottish Labour Party insider has told @heraldscotland their party 'risks being brought down by Starmer' following Waspi women decision and other recent ‘bad decisions’ from the UK Government
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I couldn’t be in Parliament today to join Scottish Labour MSPs who met with WASPI women to express our support. Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie are steadfast supporters of the campaign, as we should be.
I will stand up for my constituents in their fight for justice #waspiwomen💜
Who is Charlotte Owen and why is she a Lord?
We may find out as a Tribunal has ordered all the documentation relating to her being made a Lord to be released to them.
Imagine finding out from police that you've been systematically raped over a period of years. Imagine having absolutely no memory of it, not because the trauma blocked it out, but because the main perpetrator drugged you. Imagine that person is your husband.
How do you recover?
"Terrifying" Jevgenijs Paskevics, 43, who targeted & stalked a woman, waited outside her house in the early hours, assaulted her & made violent threats to kill her, has walked free.
Defence said he wrongly thought that he was in a relationship with her due to alcohol and drugs
Two cheers for all the gay men now suddenly condemning Stonewall while they watched actually brave gay men like James Dreyfus face the wrath of the gender borg for saying more, better and at vastly more risk some years ago.
Well done lads.
Whoops Apocalypse!
'Under my leadership, Waspi women will finally receive the justice they deserve'. (Zilch) Anas Sarwar, Labour branch manager
@ScotLabourPress@AnasSarwar
@MareeToddMSP Oh, Maree, you and the SNP have been doing the same for years.
It's politics, we get it, you make promises you can't keep to get into post, then conveniently forget all about them once taking the Kings shilling.
Some of us were stupid enough to believe the SNP.
#FoolMeOnce
Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers @GrannyHarmer “Freezing This Christmas” is Number 1 in the download charts. Yet the BBC are refusing to play it. The state of the establishment in a nutshell.
As it's hard to see that Sir Keir Starmer's personal popularity can get any lower with UK voters - must his NEW-NEW Labour Party demand his resignation?
Please RT after voting - thank you.
Facebook memories don't half throw out the odd sucker punch 🥊
Despite what it says, despite all the promises and mandates, here we still are 💁♀️ #CountryNotAColony#IndependentScotland#Brexit
There’s a bit of rewriting history going on today. So, for the record, it was Alex Salmond who was First Minister when same sex marriage was introduced in Scotland. Those of us who’ve lived our adult lives as openly gay or lesbian recall this very well. 1/2
I have a few thoughts about the government’s failure refusal to pay compensation to WASPI women for the failure of previous administrations to properly inform them about the significant increases to the state pension age for women. First, if this proven maladministration had been by a bank or private sector institution, my hunch is that regulators and courts would have compelled the payment of significant compensation with minimal requirement for claimants to prove direct loss (think of the colossal sums banks paid out for mis-selling PPI insurance). The ability of government to just say no is a striking contrast. Second the emotional distress and hardship suffered by many older women was accepted by the ombudsman, but is not deemed by the work and pensions secretary to merit financial compensation. Third this is the second time in its short life that the Starmer government has chosen to alienate an important group of pensioner voters. This is either brave and farsighted or not