HAS there ever been a Government that’s thrown hope and goodwill back in their voters’ faces quite so quickly as Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour? I very much doubt it.

Barely 100 days ago Labour was swept into power by a public sick to the back teeth of 14 years of Tory corruption and incompetence, and desperate for change.

Since then, the new Government has slashed the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners, retained the immoral two-child cap, and allowed the super-rich to hold on to all its wealth.

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Labour hasn’t just continued with policies causing misery for millions. It’s doubled down on them.

From the Prime Minister to backbenchers, Labour has also hopped on the gravy train in double-quick time.

The revelations of gifts and freebies, often worth many thousands of pounds, have disgusted ordinary people still struggling to make ends meet. Even here in Glasgow they didn’t wait long, with one new Labour MP, Gordon McKee, accepting a ticket to the Wimbledon Final literally days after being elected.

His constituents in Croftfoot and Castlemilk may want to know how they benefit from a ‘Giftgate freebie’ in south west London? 

The General Election saw six Labour MPs returned in Glasgow, all campaigning on a promise to stand up to their bosses on behalf of hard-pressed constituents.

But all fell entirely into line with Starmer at the first opportunity, doling out even more austerity to the pensioners and the poorest who’ve been on the sharp end of Tory attacks for over a decade and who were promised ‘change’ just weeks before.

Led from the front by the two-faced Anas Sarwar, Labour lied to the people of Scotland throughout that election campaign and they shouldn’t be allowed to forget it.   

Next month, Glaswegians in several communities have an opportunity to remind Labour of its duplicity.

The election of Labour councillors Maureen Burke and Patrica Ferguson as MPs for Glasgow North East and Glasgow West has triggered by-elections in the Easterhouse and Drumchapel areas. Another will take place in Maryhill after the local Labour councillor quit for a London job.

Just as the people of Dundee have done in recent weeks, the by-elections on November 21st are a chance for Glaswegians to let the Labour Government know just angry they are at the cowardice of MPs ready and willing to sacrifice the well-being of their communities so their bosses lose neither face nor the Tory support which got them to Downing Street.

The constituencies which are home to Easterhouse, Drumchapel and Maryhill are all disproportionately impacted from the polices shamelessly backed by the new MPs.

All have high percentages of children living within or on the margins of poverty and high numbers of elderly residents.

And with over 80% of elderly Scots often on breadline budgets predicted to lose out, Labour’s choices are devastating.

But a vote for the SNP isn’t just a protest vote.

The SNP City Administration and Scottish Government have, as best we can, set out to protect citizens from the worst excesses of Westminster austerity.  

Hundreds of millions have been spent in Scotland keeping children from falling into poverty and mitigating policies like the Rape Clause. Indeed, if the UK Government scrapped the Two-Child and Benefits Cap and raised Child Benefit by the value of the Scottish Child Payment they would lift around 1.5million children out of poverty.  

Here in the city, child poverty is one of our key agendas and we’re making steady progress in addressing it.

And we will continue to take the UK Government to task on decisions undermining the progress of this city, such as the axe which Labour has dangling over the £16Million regeneration of Drumchapel.

On November 21st a vote for the SNP is vote for our pensioners, our children and our communities. And it’s a bloody nose to Labour’s hypocrisy, dishonesty and austerity.