Labour needs to get honest with itself

I regularly read 2 Labour bloggers. One is Kezia Dugdale, who seems to have won the hearts of many of her fellow political bloggers, though I find it all a bit too much head-girl like for my tastes. The other shouldn't really be described as a political blogger, as I generally read it for comedy value, but Terry Kelly is the proverbial monkey behind a red rossette that Paisley could well do without.

Neither of them seems willing to concede that the SNP are making a decent fist of the administration of Scotland, so bog themselves down in utter bollocks. Terry Kelly's lies that the National Unison strike against the proposed COSLA pay settlement, is down to the Renfrew SNP led administration approving an excessively large pay-rise for senior officers, illustrates all you need to know about his petty partisan outlook.

Over in the East though, Kezia tries to pick apart the news that up to £100 million is to be brought forward from the 2010-11 budget for housing projects in order to "promote growth and support business confidence".

Kezia's main gripe seems to be that the people who are applauding the intiative are all saying that although it's a good initiative it won't solve all their problems and they'd like more money thrown at them... FFS!!!!!

In support of this, she then goes on to quote the people who you would quite reasonably expect to be asking for as much money as possible, complaining that they weren't actually given Canute's riches to deal with their myopic view of the problems of the universe. Brilliant! She may as well add my name to the list - I want more money to make my house more affordable too! Better still though, Kezia tells us that the 6% cut in last years budget will effectively be a much bigger cut now because of inflation... INFLATION??? So, who's been running the UK economy for the last 11 years? Despite rocketing International oil prices (the apparent cause of all this inflation) and Scotland being a net exporter of oil, who should be addressing the problem of budget deficit's due to inflation?

Who is standing at number 11 Downing Street, telling us all to show some pay restraint? Is it the Labour chancellor telling the unions to accept a 2% pay settlement? Whilst his colleagues trough out on inflation busting improvements for their own settlements?