Be careful what you wish for

A report in the Times (Scottish edition only, and sadly not on line), says that a senior Labour figure has called on Henry McLeish to defect to the SNP, after his comments apparently advocating some SNP policies.

The Telegraph carries a virtually identical story written by Alan Cochrane, the well known Tory commentator, who talks about "my many friends in the Scottish National Party".

Anyway, as the title of this post suggests, I'm not sure who would benefit and who would lose from such a defection.