READERS of a certain age may remember one of the final scenes in the movie The Blues Brothers when Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi patiently wait in an elevator with Muzak playing in the background as they attempt to beat the police who have been chasing them to the tax office, with mayhem ensuing as soon as the doors opened.
We drove through towns and villages in the so-called Blue Wall, areas where traditionally the Tory vote is weighed, not counted. You might have hoped that there might be some joy and excitement at the imminent near destruction of the Tory party. That election slogan “change” may only be a single syllable, but it is the biggest and most brazen of Starmer's many lies.
Despite previous Labour promises to reform the House of Lords, there are reports that upon taking office Starmer is set to appoint dozens of new Labour peers to the Lords, bloating the number of unelected legislators even further.
Starmer might have arrogantly asserted that the UK will never rejoin the EU in his lifetime, but Scotland assuredly will.