The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES
THESE are difficult times for centrists. Stunned by Brexit, their reactions are confused and inconsistent.
On a wider political front, faced with multiple and overlapping crises in public services, wages and housing, they offer only managerial solutions where radical action is called for. Then they wonder why the tide seems to be flowing in Jeremy Corbyn’s direction. Few groupings exemplify this more than the Scottish National Party.
People can be forgiven for failing to notice the SNP contribution during last week’s Brexit farrago. In fairness, it didn’t add much to the general debate, but it did outline some of the confusion and difficulties the SNP finds itself in.
COLL McCAIL rejects the Scottish Establishment’s attempt at an ‘elite lockout’ of Reform UK and says the unions should be wary of co-option by their class enemies in Holyrood just to keep one set of austerity-mongers in power instead of Reform UK
Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland



