Before heading to work this morning I listened to Iain Gray's speech to the British Labour Party Conference, to a, it must be said, a sparse crowd in the Hall.
The speech proved one thing. New Leader, no change.
A speech littered liberally with distortions, including his dubious claim that he passed the first piece of legislation in the Scottish Parliament, but more specifically, the delusional claim that the SNP is a right wing party.
It is a bit like a bully calling someone else a bully.
It is utterly misguided to continue a line of attack that the public find as lacking credibility. A party who have allowed the markets to produce the current economic chaos, leading a country, where even Dubya Bush's America has better protection for Workers, a pathological love affair for regressive taxation, and a party who believe passionately that funds for public service assets should go into the pockets of privateers not remain in public hands, that is the right wing party Mr.Gray - the problem is YOU are a member of it.
I have to confess I did laugh at the thanks at the end, when the Chair of the session reminded him, he is Leader of the Labour Holyrood Group.
New Labour's hatred for all things SNP is continuing to lead New Labour to its decline. To continue a myth that the SNP are Tories is not only laughable, its also hypocrisy.
Another thing that doesnt seem to have changed is the dodgy practice of Labour gaining access to Trade union membership records as evidenced by Charlie Whelan's admission that Unite members in Glenrothes are more likely to vote SNP in the forthcoming by-election. This has happened before, and it is practice that must be stopped. One for the Data Protection Commission methinks.
New Labour, same old negativity, New Leader, same result.........
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