Prospects for Labour
With the trickle of bad and damaging news becoming a flood - even if the substance is fairly insubstantial - the Labour Party must be screaming at the mishandling of the news about donations to the Wendy Alexander campaign.
Even the 'snouts in the trough' attitude of Derek Conway wasn't enough to distract from the bad news, mainly as press knew all about this, and the public weren't surprised at the duplicity shown by MPs.
If Labour have any serious expectation of winning the next election it would seem that their only hope is a simultaneous catastrophe to remove the entire top echelon of the party, otherwise they face the prospect of humiliation, defeat and disaster in 2010.
I still think that the new openness (hah!) that we can now expect from MPs about their expenses is going to bring more dirty laundry into the open, which will be entertaining for all and sundry, and might actually bring a higher measure of honesty from, and respect for, MPs if they volunteer the information, rather than have the details dragged out of them.
I remain of the opinion that MPs and MSPs should have to publish their tax returns, so we can see just what they are up to, as after the initial furore the public will be better served by the disclosure.
Even the 'snouts in the trough' attitude of Derek Conway wasn't enough to distract from the bad news, mainly as press knew all about this, and the public weren't surprised at the duplicity shown by MPs.
If Labour have any serious expectation of winning the next election it would seem that their only hope is a simultaneous catastrophe to remove the entire top echelon of the party, otherwise they face the prospect of humiliation, defeat and disaster in 2010.
I still think that the new openness (hah!) that we can now expect from MPs about their expenses is going to bring more dirty laundry into the open, which will be entertaining for all and sundry, and might actually bring a higher measure of honesty from, and respect for, MPs if they volunteer the information, rather than have the details dragged out of them.
I remain of the opinion that MPs and MSPs should have to publish their tax returns, so we can see just what they are up to, as after the initial furore the public will be better served by the disclosure.
4 comments:
Labour are in melt down. You suggest that they remove the entire top echelon but what will they be left with locally? The Binnies of this world! Now there's a real vote winner!
Well I think Binnie is great and so is Angus Graham and Agnes Munro.
There are no 'prospects' and no future for Labour. Their spin doctor Tony McElroy is to leave the party's employment after the spring conference next month.
Tony stressed that his decision "had nothing to do with the current problems besetting the party's Scottish leader, Wendy Alexander" - yeah, that'll be right....
The Labour lovies are all quiet tonight. Way past their bedtime obviously.. or are they all plastered?....and OK, I admit that as an SNP supporter 'I' was anon 10.46! The opportunity to screw Labour at every opportunity must be taken until they start putting Scotland (and not their party) first!
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