McMusk

It defies belief. In their desperate bid to channel their inner Musk, the Scottish Labour Party is now, according to its leader Anas Sarwar, committed to setting up a Scottish DOGE—Department of Government Efficiency. Could this anticipate a similar move by our empty-headed Prime Minister, whose government thinks at least 5% can be trimmed from departmental budgets (or maybe more given the cock-up Reeves has made with her first Budget)? Nothing says more that Labour is so running scared of Reform that they want to ape it, whilst at the same time hypocritically condemning it for its hard-right stance. Farage must be luxuriating in the attention this all gives him, since the public may justifiably be led to believe that the ‘Left’ has no alternative. And in order to preserve the ‘Special Relationship’ and Britain’s role as a 'transatlantic bridge’ we will see a greater pivoting towards Trump and acquiescence in his agenda for us all. I don’t believe Starmer has the intellectual capacity to present an alternative, since as a committed Centrist he can do no more than repeat the mantra ‘we are where we are.’