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Posted on September 27, 2012 by Rev. Stuart Campbell

Scottish Labour mouthpiece the Daily Record is currently running a long series of horror stories about Atos “Healthcare” and their appalling persecution of the sick and disabled. We heartily and sincerely commend the Record for doing so, even if it usually fails to note that Atos were unleashed on the poor and vulnerable by a Labour government, and occasionally just outright lies about it.

You might expect, then, that the valid concerns of the Record and its readers would be earnestly reflected by the nation’s Labour MSPs when the Scottish Parliament debated the issue of Atos’ conduct of Work Capability Assessments yesterday.

You’d be wrong, of course.

The SNP desks in the chamber were fairly well populated for a member’s-business session, with MSPs attending in double figures and numerous speakers.

Over on the Tory/Lib Dem benches, Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone was perhaps understandably alone, with nobody else from the Scottish branches of the UK’s ruling parties wishing to be associated with defending the indefensible.

And for Labour? One.

We don’t just mean Jackie Baillie was the only Labour MSP to speak in the debate. Although not present at the beginning, she was the only one who bothered to show up at all, and she stood surrounded by empty seats as her party colleagues instead ran around defending Johann Lamont’s plans to subject Scotland’s poor and disabled and elderly to means-testing in order to keep receiving personal care and prescriptions.

We were about to be shocked and disgusted, until we remembered the words of Scottish Labour MP Tom Harris a little under a year ago, as approvingly quoted by the Telegraph’s arch-Tory columnist Alan Cochrane:

“We weren’t set up as some sort of charity to help the poorest in society – the long-term unemployed, the benefit dependent, the drug addicted, the homeless.”

We’re feeling a little bit sick ourselves now, readers, but please don’t tell anyone about it. Because we don’t want Atos “Healthcare” coming after us next.

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The Labour party just isn't.

Tony's legacy is clearly the destruction of working cl;ass representation in the UK.

Which is why the SNP have run rampant in a political process that was designed to ensure no party ever had a working majority.

But, only a fool would believe that the SNP represent worker's interests. They now have a track record of government, and this proves that they are even more devious, divisive and protecting of our flawed establishment system than the other rogues at Holyrood.

What our SNP controlled political process proves is that you can't change the political process by engaging with the political process.

And how dangerous is that?

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