Well, the Labour party are still struggling with the will of the Scottish people. Tony Blair is too busy on his farewell tour to bother to congratulate Scottish first Minister Salmond, whilst the Queen and Rev Iain Paisley have both managed to find the time... Gordon Brown finally picked up the phone after 2 weeks but the back benchers in Westminister feel they can hoot derision when the subject of how the devolved parliament interactions with Westminister is raised. Interesting times!!!
More locally the SNP have asked the Auditor General to investigate the projected costs of Edinburgh Tram and Airport Rail links. A perfectly sensible move given the history of Labour Lib Dem administrations previous project costings... Scottish parliament origally quoted at £40m, finished costing nearly £400m. Des McNulty, though, is "worried the Auditor General might be being brought in to find something that would justify SNP policy."
Is it just me? Of course that's what's happening Des. The whole country hopes that's what's happening. It makes perfect sense, given the appalling overspend on so many other projects... In fact, it's a surprise to me that it isn't standard practice for the Audotor general to go over all major projects... otherwise, what is his job??
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