Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar recently made headlines with his calls for Keir Starmer to step down as Prime Minister and Labour leader. But this was not a swift or decisive call.
In the days leading up to Sarwar’s revelation that his buddy Starmer might not be up to the job, Scottish Labour repeatedly dodged the press to avoid having to comment on the Peter Mandelson scandal.
As the pressure was ramped up, however – not least as a result of photos emerging of Sarwar himself cosying up with Mandelson as recently as last summer – he joined the chorus of Labour dissenters.
Where was Anas Sarwar’s rightful condemnation when Mandelson was first appointed?
After all, even then Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein was well known, writes James Walker ✍️ pic.twitter.com/Ht86U6hvju
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This was nothing but an attempt to save Scottish Labour’s flailing polling position ahead of the May Holyrood elections, poorly disguised as moral outrage and care for victims.
Sarwar has said as much since in media interviews, discussing the election campaign and the concern he would lose in a head-to-head with SNP leader John Swinney. This of course was covered up in language about ‘delivering for Scotland’, which would be laughable if it were not so completely disgusting.
Where was this attitude when his beloved Kid Starver forced children to go hungry and old people to freeze in their homes in the bitter Scottish winter?
Sleaze and sandal
It is also important to note that it’s not just the party’s Westminster wing dragging Labour into sleaze and scandal.
In December 2025, for example, it emerged that sitting Scottish Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy enjoyed birthday drinks with Sean Morton, who was convicted in 2017 of possessing indecent images of children. This opened up widespread questioning of her relationship with the convicted sex offender.
When this came to light, Duncan-Glancy stood down from both her position as education spokeswoman and her candidacy in the May elections. However, despite repeated calls to have the whip removed, Sarwar allowed for her to stay on sitting as a Scottish Labour MSP.
Only more recently, after Sir Starmer stripped Lord Doyle – Starmer’s former director of communications – of his peerage for his friendship with Morton, was Duncan-Glancy finally suspended from the party.
It must be added that, whilst Doyle has been forced to apologise for his “error of judgement”, Duncan-Glancy continues to defend her friendship with Morton to the press!
To read how she describes this man – who, we must again remind readers, has only recently finished serving a sentence for two counts of possessing indecent images of children – is only for those with strong stomachs.
Just recently, Duncan-Glancy said: “My actions [read: hanging out with a convicted sex offender whilst being the education spokesperson] arise from loyalty and care. I was providing support to a highly vulnerable person.”
Providing support and care to “highly vulnerable” people clearly does not extend to child victims of sexual abuse in the eyes of Labour politicians!
Global crime
The SNP have been quick to jump on this, of course. John Swinney has put out a flurry of social media posts and media appearances calling out Labour’s sleaze.
In the same way as Sarwar did while attacking Starmer, Swinney makes only the most feeble attempts to obscure in these that his concern is primarily for the purpose of election campaigning.
Westminster is full of seedy characters. But the Duncan-Glancy case – not to mention the abuse of power within the SNP itself – shows that Holyrood is no different.
The degenerate Epstein class is not unique to Westminster, England, or Britain. This scandal is a global crime: of the rich using their power to exploit the most vulnerable and powerless in society. To use it as a political chess piece, or for independence propaganda, is shameful.
To bring down the Epstein class, we need to bring down the billionaires across the world. We must make the elites pay for their crimes – by overthrowing them and their system through revolution.
