A short thread on tactical voting. In 2019, Paul Sweeney lost his seat as an MP for Glasgow North East. The SNP candidate, Anne McLaughlin, won with 48.9% of the vote (15,911 votes). Paul lost by 2548 votes. Why? Because the opposition was split. https://twitter.com/PaulJSweeney/status/1329942619816923139

As an example, if Paul 'over my dead body' Sweeney had embraced a coalition with the Tories and LibDems he would had access to their 4,651 votes. He would only have needed about half (54%) of those to win.

But, like many in Labour, rather than work with the Tories, it seems he'd rather be under the thumb of Nationalists, who - let me remind you - stole Labour's voters primarily by pretending to be socialists.

Some in Labour, driven by biased pro-indy polling, say they should work with the Nationalists. That won't work for two reasons. In principle: Nationalism is the enemy of Socialism, and in practice: you can't out-SNP the SNP.

As George Galloway - an actual socialist - says: you can't be a socialist and reject the pooling and sharing that the UK brings; you can't be a socialist and want to make fellow UK workers into foreigners; and you can't be a socialist when Separation will hurt the poorest most.

Instead of being scared of being called Red Tories, Labour should be saying they'll work with anyone to get rid of the toxic and divisive Nationalism that has taken over Scotland. Only once Nationalism is gone, will they have any chance of power.

In normal times, I would reject many of Paul's old-school Labour policy ideas. But, if I was in his constituency, I'd still rather vote for him than vote for an incompetent Nationalist who wants to break apart the UK and who promotes division and greed as their core principles.

Labour, the Tories and the LibDems have a simple choice: work together this one time to break the back of the SNP, or become even more irrelevant.