Can they actually claim to be a party of the working class, as they seem to me be only concerned about what they can get out of it for themselves. I know most politicians are like this but this lot are beyond belief. I actually wonder what the old Labour stalwarts in the town actually think of the people who now represent them.
The campaign Labour ran for the Scottish elections was the most negative, it appeared to me, I can remember. The whole point of their campaign seemed to me was to attack their opponents at every opportunity and to put down the Scottish nation in general whilst forgetting to mention any achievements that they actually had in their time in power. This was the focus of a dutch news article too.
But since the results of the election, it appears to me that their arrogance and contempt for others has shown no bounds. First we had wee Joke McConnell disappearing from site as soon as it became apparent that for the first time in 50 years they had not won. Then we hear that he ignores all etiquette in not contacting the leader of the winning party to congratulate them.
Then when it is announced that the SNP and Greens are to form the government we hear that neither the PM or PM in waiting has had the decency to phone Salmond up to congratulate him, which I thought would have been courteous no matter what party they represent. Oh no, Tony is over in the States coorying up to Bush as usual whilst oor Gordon is probably raging at the thought that instead of the Scottish parliament jumping at his every whim we might even have a cabinet who will actually act in the interest of Scotland and not what the incumbents at Downing street want.
Now this week we have Anne Moffat, the MP for East Lothian coming out with the comment that "proportional representation gave Germany Adolf Hitler and in Scotland to a lesser degree we've had the member for Banff and Buchan"."Now what in gods name is that all about. She even had the cheek to say that she had done nothing wrong. Making a comparison to Hitler is bad enough in any circumstance but to slag a system that they introduced is just pathetic. Maybe Anne the fact that the first past the post system gave us an unproportional number of labour mps for the number of votes cast for them suited you means it is not the best system. If she had the brains to look across Europe in places like Scandanavia and Netherlands she would see that since the war these countries have always been run by coalitions made up of various parties, none of whom had enough seats to form a government themselves, and I cannot see any major problems in the ways these countries have been run. Sour grapes maybe Anne.
Then I hear the news that BP has abandoned plans for the £500m UK carbon capture power plant in Aberdeenshire, blaming Westminster delays over support. WTF, is going on. Not only would it have created over 1,000 jobs but it would have been a world leader in the production of carbon free electricity from hydrogen, for once Scotland would be leading the world in a green issue. Or is the fact that the Government is so hell bent on new nuclear power plants that in despite of their so called green credentials they really dont care.
Never has such an ego driven bunch been allowed to run or ruin a country - and we still have Tony's olympics overspend to be faced with in the future.
Ah, rant over - now for a bacon roll and mug of tea
