To Scotland, where in just over a week’s time, the first Holyrood by-election for six years will take place. It’s set to a be a tight race in the constituency of Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse and tensions between the political parties in the running are rising. Now Nigel Farage has hit out at Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, rather bizarrely accusing the Glasgow politician of introducing ‘sectarianism into Scottish politics’ as the spat between the pair continues. Dear oh dear…
Farage’s remarks follow the feud over Reform UK’s attack ad, which has selectively clipped one of Sarwar’s speeches from 2022 to claim that the Scottish Labour leader will ‘prioritise the Pakistani community’. In the talk, the lefty leader can be heard urging those from Pakistani and South Asian backgrounds to get involved in politics. The MSP insists in the video:
Pakistan needs to be represented in every mainstream political party in Scotland and across the UK… The days where the South Asian community gets to lead political parties and gets to lead countries is now upon us.
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