Labour arithmetic

Wendy Alexander has given herself 10 our of 10 for her performance as Scottish Labour leader, according to the BBC , who I'm inclined to believe in the circumstances. Now, I'm sure Wendos must have said this as a joke, but surely she must realise that noone outwith the Labour party has been taking her seriously for some time, particularly not after publishing this rambling nonsense. So, what we've got is the woman who'd like to lead Scotland jumping on the bandwagon of her own ridicule. Perhaps it's a double bluff! After all, we're told that Wendy has a 'towering intellect', as proven out by her 3 whole years as a graduate recruit to a management consultancy.

Anyway, all joking aside - I'm sure she must have been joking - it seems that Wendy thinks 'Socialism' is the cure to all of Scotland's ills. Funnily enough, I did have the time to sit down on Sunday afternoon and enjoy Iain McWhirter's Iain McWhirter's analysis, putting the lie to Labour's latest wheeze (tartan tories, how they must have laughed when they came up with that one). So, on the one hand we've got a party implementing progressive social democratic values whilst on the other we've got "new / old / what do you want us to be again?" Labour.

But, SOCIALISM is the cure!!! Where have I heard that before... over in Terry Land, where Terry has allowed his daughter to bring some sense to the table and publish articles that at least read correctly (note to self - don't publish any glaring grammatical error for fear of ridicule!). Having weaned myself away from the councillor, I couldn't help but pop back to see what he might be saying... Sure enough, comedy gold. It's Perrier award winning stuff... or has Al Murray cornered the spoof idiot market?

First of all I'm an eejit for believing Wendy would award herself 10 out of 10.

But what about some Labour arithmetic, as Terry gleefully points us to a story about Alex Salmond's expenses before informing us that at a cost of 20k per day it equates to over £5 million pounds a year of tax-payers money PLUS interest!!!!

Question 1: How was the figure of £20k per day derived?

Question 2: How would Salmond attending Westminister more often affect the figures?

Question 3: How many marks out of ten can you award yourself for not answering either question?

Brace yourself!!!

Q/1 - It was in the papers.

Same paper as is carrying this story .

Q/2 - Because if £20,000 is the cost of his expenses for a day then £40,000 would be the cost of two days.

He's got to be joking right? Laugh-a-long with the Labour party.
10/10 for humour every time!

Q/3 - I can’t take the credit for this courageous example of truth seeking, corruption busting Scottish Journalism but, it makes you proud to be Scottish, don’t you think ?

Och!!! He was joking!!!! I thought I had him for a minute there...