What a load of mince

The papers today make very poor reading for those on the Labour floor today. Most papers use a picture of a grim looking Wendy Alexander and when contrasted to the picture of Alex Salmond with a broad grin across his face, you know which one of the two had a better day at the office yesterday.

The Sun picks up on the comments of Gavin Brown who yesterday called Labour Finance spokesman “convenor of the cross-party group on mince” and shows Iain Gray’s head in a mincer. As John Swinney put it, “it is a bizarre position Labour has got itself into” and it is very difficult to disagree.

I posted this yesterday on the budget, a post written quite quickly and with some glaring errors. I stated that Margo opposed the budget as at the time the rumour going around was it was her or Mike Rumbles. In fact, it turns out Cathie Craigie was the Labour MSP who voted against the budget instead of abstaining like her comrades did. Seems that the Labour whips are unable to control their members now, despite Craigie’s claims she voted against the budget on “principal”.

Douglas Fraser perhaps puts it best when he said that the budget “was a test not just of government but of effective opposition. Labour flunked that test.” Although, the Scotsman doesn’t do to badly itself when it describes yesterday as “a total triumph and an utter defeat.”

One also hears that the electoral commission are due to report late this morning – I’ve heard a few whispers thus far….