Labour's slavering dogs of war...

I was going to write about Labour's faux outrage over Alex Salmond's comment in the Ian Dale interview . The usual suspects have bitten and gone for it, presumably forgetting that Gordon Brown had invited the Iron Lady round for tea and expressed his unstinting admiration for her.

As far as I can tell, all the venting of spleens, gnashing of teeth and wailing has done is convince me further of what a basket case the current crop of Labourites are. Even Ian Dale himself is astonished at the reponse!

Although I'm not really sure how you differentiate between the economic side and the social side, I'm pretty comfortable with what Alex Salmond has said. I remember the country being something of a basket case, and the history books would appear to back up those who claim she brought about an economic recovery. Economics isn't my thing though and I wasn't really old enough to understand the stories as they were happening. A search on Thatcher reveals that the Tories generally still have a simpering affection for her and that Labour consider her something akin to Mephistopheles in heels. I just remember the milk being taken away ;-(

Anyway, all this aside, I was laughing at the comments on Kezia's rant and about to heap further ridicule on her - if you've come to the same conclusion as Terry Kelly on a subject, you're really f*cked up! - when one Chris Jones covered all my ire in one go. Seeing as I'm the Incorrigible plagiarist, I'm just going to copy his post here for posterity.

Errr.. isn't it your good pal Iain Gray that has proposed hooking up with his Tory mates for the sake of political expediency - see here.
Tell me what do you actually stand for these days in the Labour Party? Apart from just being viscerally against the SNP? What personally makes you loyal to them? Social justice, left of centre politics, doing the right things by Scotland? I believe in those things and that's why I left the Labour Party - which in Scotland is now fully of career policy wonks looking for safe seats, "paranoid baffoons" such as Foulkes, or those that still think the Labour Party has an automatic right to govern Scotland, such as Kerr.

It obviously still hasn't sunk into the Labour Holyrood set that your're losing voters because ex-voters and ex-members like me despise everything that the Labour Party has become - under people like Brown, Blair, Alexander and the god-awful Foulkes and Cairns. Nor will we ever believe you with the SNP scare stories. The persistent negative campaigning and crude spin just doesn't work - and the ex-members/voters are turned right off by it. You'll need to change or enjoy playing politics with an ever smaller little "club" of activists....

I'm looking forward to seeing a few more posts from Mr. Jones.