Why is Keir Starmer so desperate to topple the Scottish government?

Keir Starmer says that it's going to be one of his main goals as Prime Minister to remove Humza Yousaf as Scotland's First Minister

Ever since he cheated his way into the Labour leadership in 2020 with a load of lies, Keir Starmer has made no secret of his hostility towards the left, nor his contempt for the Scottish independence movement, whilst endlessly pandering to right-wing media moguls, exploitative capitalists and landlords, utilities profiteers, and wealthy donors who are queuing up to buy political influence.

Now he’s openly bragging that one of his main political goals is to use his position as Prime Minister to topple the Scottish government and remove Humza Yousaf as First Minister.

It’s easy to think of so many things that Starmer could chose to prioritise after becoming Prime Minister over a power-hungry plot to attack the Scottish government from within 10 Downing Street:

• He could abolish the rip-off university tuition fees that lumber vast numbers of kids from poor and ordinary backgrounds with literally unpayable debts on obscene inflation busting repayment terms.

• He could end the Tories’ ruinous austerity agenda and actually invest for the future, rather than plotting to continue with ‘more of the same’.

• He could take a leaf out of his predecessor’s book and prioritise doing something about the scourge of homelessness that’s plaguing Britain.

• He could reform the political system to get big money influence-buyers out of politics (rather than pandering to them) and get rid of the affront to democracy that is the unelected House of Lords (rather than stuffing it full of his own cronies).

• He could bring vital infrastructure and services back under public control so they can be run for the good of the British people and the British economy, rather than as cash cows for greedy capitalists and overseas governments.

• He could take a leaf out of Tony Blair’s book and actually try to do something about the scourge of child poverty and all of the social problems and lost economic potential that stem from so many British kids growing up in destitution.

• He could do something about the lamentable mess the Tories have made of the English education system by kicking the profiteering academy spivs out of our schools, and restoring per pupil funding to where it was before the Tories took their austerity wrecking ball to the education budget.

• He could do something about the soaring cost of housing with rent caps and legislation to compel banks provide better mortgage rates for people buying a single family home, rather than favouring buy-to-let slumlords and property speculators as they do now.

• He could equalise income tax and capital gains tax to ensure that work isn’t taxed more heavily than the proceeds of idle speculation.

But instead of doing anything to actually help ordinary people by reversing the damage of fourteen years of Tory austerity ruination, privatisation mania, anti-democratic shenanigans, and ideological extremism, he’s intent on settling old scores by going after Humza Yousaf and the SNP.

There are several reasons Starmer’s so obsessed with toppling Yousaf and the SNP.

Humza Yousaf is one of the few UK political leaders to have taken a decent humanitarian stance on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, while Starmer has endlessly equivocated as the death toll spirals, Gaza is reduced to rubble, and the vast majority of the population is displaced from their homes and subjected to Israel’s barbaric and unlawful siege warfare tactics.

Starmer is bitterly intolerant of criticism of Israeli atrocities and humanitarianism towards Palestinians within his own party, so why wouldn’t he be enraged that Humza Yousaf is proving himself vastly more civilised and humane than the so-called human rights lawyer who won’t even condemn blatant genocide?

Then there’s the way that the SNP have capitalised by occupying the centre-left democratic socialist territory that Starmer’s so desperate to drag Labour away from.

Starmer abandoned his pledge to scrap rip-off tuition fees, while Scottish students have never had to rack up these obscene tuition debts; Starmer gleefully gone back on his promises to renationalise utilities, while water and the railways in Scotland are publicly owned; and he’s reneged on his policy of bringing in rent caps to mitigate the profiteering of greedy landlords, while the SNP have used their devolved powers to deliver a 3% rent cap for Scottish renters.

Starmer doesn’t just want to erase the centre-left from the Labour Party, he’s quite open about wanting to use his position as Prime Minister to take down the Scottish government and replace them with the Scottish branch office of his right-wing version of the Labour Party (which will obviously go along with his pro-austerity, pro-privatisation, pro-landlord agenda or suffer the wrath of his disciplinary goons).

And then there’s the Labour Party entitlement of thinking that Scotland belongs to them, despite having taken repeated electoral kickings from the Scottish public in the wake of their collusion with the Tories in 2014 and their insipid imitation of Tory austerity extremism in 2015.

As far as the Labour right are concerned Scotland is theirs, and even after Labour lost 40 of their 41 Scottish MPs in the 2015 SNP landslide, and never winning back more than a few of them since, they still haven’t even acknowledged that they did anything wrong to trigger such a backlash.

They’re completely unrepentant and desperate to seize control of Scotland’s devolved powers so the Scottish people have no-one to protect them from the retribution they’ve got in store for their disloyal Scottish subjects.

Starmer and the Labour right clearly don’t want anyone standing in their way trying to protect the Scottish people from their profoundly concerning political agenda, and they’re clearly still incredibly bitter that the Scottish people have repeatedly rejected Labour in favour of the SNP over the last decade, so the Scottish people would be very unwise to help these ghouls undermine and remove their own devolved protections.