Westminster Stitch-up Blocks SNP Vote
Yesterday’s shameful events in the House of Commons show Westminster is utterly broken.
An SNP opposition day motion should have been the chance for the UK Parliament to do the right thing and vote for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel.
Instead it turned into a Westminster circus.
It is a disgrace that Sir Keir Starmer and the Speaker colluded to block Parliament voting on the SNP motion for an immediate ceasefire, and against the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.
The Speaker’s decision to put Labour’s amendment to MPs ahead of the SNP motion itself served the clear purpose of protecting Keir Starmer from rebellion among his own Labour MPs.
But this was meant to be about Gaza, not Keir Starmer and the Labour Party. And the result has been no vote on the desperately needed ceasefire as called for in the SNP motion.
More than 29,000 Palestinian children, women and men have been killed ā and huge swathes of Gaza have been obliterated while Westminster equivocates.
People in Gaza and Israel, and voters in Scotland, have been badly let down ā they deserve so much better than this.
The SNP will continue to press the UK government and parliament to back an immediate ceasefire.
Westminster has disgraced itself and shown the world that equivocation and chaos is all it appears up to.
But the time for equivocation is over.