"many councillors in Britain sit in safe boroughs "
Pardon? I think you mean England and Wales...
Though in Scotland, Labour minorities in council chambers seem willing to make compromises for power with anyone ... so long as they are not SNP or Green!
The inevitable large scale culling of Labour councillors in 2027 by Reform UK doesn't seem to phase them either - if they get seats in 3 or 4 member wards under STV, it seems they'll just make alliances with Reform, as they have since 2022 with Tories and even the fringe far right "British Unionist Party" who want to abolish devolution all together (a position supported by about 1% of the population).
The Daily Record, Scotland's largest mass daily newspaper, is even championing this strategy by highlighting that Anas Sarwar can become First Minister with just a quarter of the seats (and roughly a quarter of the votes), so long as the unionist 'bloc' has a majority of seats and Labour is the largest party (calculated as 33 out of 129 seats).
Quite what voters think the point of voting Labour is at all is raised, if they get a parliament or council where Labour have to go to Reform for their approval every time they want to do something. 'Office without power' at any cost seems to be the strategy of Labour in Scotland.
The polls however tell a different story to the Daily Record's faux optimism. Labour looks unlikely to reach even 20 seats at Holyrood and may fall to its lowest vote share since women's suffrage began in 1918. Polls say Labour will not only fall behind a second placed Reform, but could even be overtaken by the Greens and into fourth place or worse in the Regional list vote, scrapping it out with Tories and LibDems for the consolation seats.
It's why we need the Scottish STV system for local government. Make the parties work for every vote. No safe seats or rotten borough fiefdoms
"many councillors in Britain sit in safe boroughs "
Pardon? I think you mean England and Wales...
Though in Scotland, Labour minorities in council chambers seem willing to make compromises for power with anyone ... so long as they are not SNP or Green!
The inevitable large scale culling of Labour councillors in 2027 by Reform UK doesn't seem to phase them either - if they get seats in 3 or 4 member wards under STV, it seems they'll just make alliances with Reform, as they have since 2022 with Tories and even the fringe far right "British Unionist Party" who want to abolish devolution all together (a position supported by about 1% of the population).
The Daily Record, Scotland's largest mass daily newspaper, is even championing this strategy by highlighting that Anas Sarwar can become First Minister with just a quarter of the seats (and roughly a quarter of the votes), so long as the unionist 'bloc' has a majority of seats and Labour is the largest party (calculated as 33 out of 129 seats).
Quite what voters think the point of voting Labour is at all is raised, if they get a parliament or council where Labour have to go to Reform for their approval every time they want to do something. 'Office without power' at any cost seems to be the strategy of Labour in Scotland.
The polls however tell a different story to the Daily Record's faux optimism. Labour looks unlikely to reach even 20 seats at Holyrood and may fall to its lowest vote share since women's suffrage began in 1918. Polls say Labour will not only fall behind a second placed Reform, but could even be overtaken by the Greens and into fourth place or worse in the Regional list vote, scrapping it out with Tories and LibDems for the consolation seats.
Comrade Führage is Putin’s bitch.
Labour are too arrogant and stuck in their ways to be able to adapt to this surge of national populism.