The Labour Party

Theres a fag paper of a difference between them and both would go to war and shaft the poor with gusto so to your average worker what difference does it make?

This will be illustrated even more when Starmer moves even more to the right to placate the Northern racist voters.

By voting for them/him you are also responsible for this.

That's politics.

Get rid of the Labour Party and you might get somewhere in England but I fear it's too late.

Voting for Brexit was the death knell for the progressive English working class.

Now you have a situation which is comparable to America- two right wing parties offering right wing policies to a selfish 'I'm All Right Jack' right wing working class.

Pretty much so. Yes.

First thing would be is to acknowledge that the break up of Britain is a positive step. Not just for Scotland and (occupied)Ireland but for England itself.

There has to be a re-examination of what being English is.

The 'statues'debate is one small step but look at the reaction that has provoked amongst the white working class?

Examining the racist and imperialist history has to be tackled head on by admitting that both Churchill and Nelson weren't heroes but were racists, pirates and profiteers.

If England doesn't do this then it looks as if it'll descent into a war between the right wing working class and people who'll resist them(ie black people and any progressive white people who are left)

What do you think will be the process of re-examination for an independent Scotland?

Acknowledgement of involvement in the slave trade?

Glasgow's mercantile past and it entanglement with the Transatlantic slave trade?

Enthusiasm for and participation in the British Empire?

How would that work? Something like the truth and reconciliation process in post apartheid South Africa?

Glasgow(like Bristol)has to have an overhaul of it's street names which 'honour' people who profited from the slave trade. It's long overdue.

This was done recently when republicans renamed the streets after people like Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks etc.

However, over the last few weeks Loyalists and the Orange Order have been coming into George Square(to 'protect' the Cenotaph when no-one had actually threatened it)and attack anti racists and Asylum Seeker campaigners.

Police Scotland let them attack an anti racist demo two weeks ago and 'kettled' Republicans so it shows you where their loyalties lie.

Glasgow has a proud socialist history which the Labour Party have basically smothered.

How do you mean 'review'?

My perceptions of the SNP differ from Roguey's in that I don't view them as being to the left of Labour (or at least the Corbyn version of Labour). In fact, I don't perceive them as true socialists at all. On the contrary, they're huge admirers of the Isle of Man and Ireland: Alex Salmond was great friends with our former Chief Minister Allan Bell and Nicola Sturgeon has also made several visits. I suspect an independent Scotland would very quickly adopt an offshore economic model, with low taxes (certainly low corporate taxes) attracting international business and funding a generous welfare state. The Isle of Man has clearly demonstrated that this can be done, with higher pensions and a better NHS than the UK, but with a maximum personal tax rate of 20% and no corporation tax, capital gains tax or inheritance tax. As such, I would foresee the SNP adopting policies that are simultaneously to the right and left of the UK Government.