Labour wins Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election in Scotland

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Labour has defeated the SNP to win the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.

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The party’s candidate, Michael Shanks, took the Westminster seat with 17,845 votes - more than double the number polled by the SNP’s Katy Loudon. The result was a swing of 20.4% from the SNP to Labour (1).

Both Labour and the SNP were eyeing victory to land an early blow ahead of the next general election.

The by-election was called after former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier was ousted by her constituents for breaking Covid rules.

(1) Blimey … some swing … :astonished:

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there is a time in the tide of men/women for change - and this occurs as naturally as summer turns to winter - perhaps now its labors time to stuff things up in a highly successful multicutural society were handouts run freely??

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The only difference is the handouts will go to the people that need it, not the mega rich who don’t

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Labour surged to a landslide by-election victory over the SNP that party strategists believe will see it win up to 40 seats in Scotland at the general election.

Labour only has one other MP in Scotland, Ian Murray, who represents Edinburgh South.

Labour’s optimism may be premature.

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Hi

The Labour Far Left are crawling out of the woodwork, demanding that the Party needs to be bold.

It was the threat of this when Corbyn was in power which kept the Tories in Government.

The idiots will do it again.

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Hasn’t Starmer been quite hard on the old Momentum crew? I understood he’d kicked them out of decision making roles and was even criticised for going too far with his treatment of Corbyn. That doesn’t sound like an open invitation for more sandal wearing policies. (No matter if the Tories pretend that they are policies - tax on meat indeed!)

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Nope.

Read the news, or alternatively do your research.

I do not want the Tories back in, you and others like you are going to give them a huge chance of doing so.

We are being held to ransom by some Unions.

The train drivers, inflicting huge misery and costs on much lower paid decent honest people.

The Train Drivers are paid a mint, more than Doctors in Resus and Intensive Care.

For what?

All the train drivers have to do is stay awake, everything else is automated.

They are not worth £65,000 a year.

We need to deal with them.

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Are the rail strikes not more about the other rail workers?

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Nope not at all.

It is about an outdated, extreme left wing leadership with no regard for ordinary workers at all.

They are determined to cause as much chaos as possible.

Train drivers earn more than Doctors with 5 years experience and who are still paying off huge student loans and working 12 hour shifts.

What the Unions are demanding is not how the most efficient railways elsewhere operate.

It is blackmail.

Time to call them out, sack them and offer new contracts at a much lower rate and worse working conditions, i.e. what the rest of the UK work under.

Legal minimum benefits and sanctioned if they do not look for any work, even if it is minimum wage.

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So its nothing to do with the high cost of living and the lack of decent pay rises for ordinary railway workers? Funny, that’s what I’ve read:
“walked out over wages, planned changes to working practices – involving the removal of guards from trains, the reduction in the number of open ticket offices, and an increase in the age at which people could claim the young persons and senior citizen card – and the threat of redundancies. The disputes in Scotland and Wales were resolved by the RMT in December 2022, and by ASLEF in May 2023, while the dispute in England is currently ongoing”
Not only about drivers then