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Scottish Education in Crisis: Covid, Greed and Poor Preparation  by Vince Mills

28/9/2020

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Early optimism that the education sector was well prepared to deal with the ongoing Covid 19 crisis has evaporated.  In early August we saw school students return to classrooms and in early September they were joined by  further and higher education students. But by that time there had been reported cases of Covid 19 in 26 secondary schools and 16 primary schools right across Scotland. The highest densities, as expected, were in those communities where infections rates have increased most rapidly.


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Scottish Nationalism and Scottish Labour by Vince Mills

20/9/2020

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Mike Phipps writing in Labour hub about the recent, failed attempted coup on Richard Leonard reflects on Labour’s third place in opinion polls and argues that . “A fundamental strategic reorientation to the issue of independence is needed.”



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SNP Spin and Grievance Machine Works Overtime as Aviation Workers Are Betrayed by Kevin McGregor,

18/9/2020

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On Wednesday night this week, the political nooks and crannies of Twitter in Scotland echoed with cries of betrayal, almost exclusively directed at the Scottish Labour Party.
A sea of nationalist supporters, including SNP MSPs, some of them Scottish Government Ministers, could hardly contain themselves as they took to their phones and keyboards to spread the shocking news:‘Scottish Labour have voted with the Tories and opposed an extension to the furlough scheme.’


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Statement from the Govan and South West Glasgow Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group in support of Richard Leonard Scottish Labour Party Leader

5/9/2020

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At a meeting of the group held via zoom on Wednesday 2nd September to discuss “Covid job losses and the attack on employment rights” it was agreed to express our support for Richard Leonard. It was further agreed to offer condemnation of those MSPs along with a few other’s who are questioning his leadership. Their disregard for the mandate that Richard received from the membership shows contempt for both the Labour party’s internal democratic processes and for the wider membership.



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Richard Leonard and the #headlesschickencoup by Vince Mills

4/9/2020

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Let us be clear about one thing. The ongoing coup in Scottish Labour is about the future, not only of the Scottish Labour Party, but the Labour Party as a whole. The recent photograph of Ian Murray rehearsing for the announcement of the launch of the  ‘Independent Group’ of MPs tells us all we need to know about the real intentions of Labour’s centrists.



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In defence of Richard Leonard's Leadership by Kevin McGregor

2/9/2020

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Not so long after pushing for the SNP Cabinet Secretary for Education, John Swinney, to do a u-turn (which he then did at breakneck speed) on the exam results fiasco (only clinging on to his post thanks to his enablers in the Scottish Greens), Richard Leonard has also been successful in getting a National Care Service on the agenda in Scotland and has forced the Holyrood administration to include plans to explore this in their programme for Government.


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Solidarity with  Richard Leonard by Lorna Roberston, SEC member

2/9/2020

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For all those in Scottish Labour and trade unions who supported and campaigned for a Scottish National Care Service for our members, care workers, family and friends who have needed care, yesterday afternoon was a time to celebrate, at least a little. The Programme for Government announcement that the SNP had taken the “1st step” towards what we will only accept as a fully publicly run national care service, was what it was described, only a first step. So many questions and fights still to have, who will be involved in the review, timescale, processes.... all questions Richard asked and also his demand for an immediate uplift in T&Cs for care workers was ignored. An ongoing fight to take to the SNP.

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