Eck The Comeback Kid?

Though this blog has tried to ignore the fact, there are elections to the Scottish Parliament this year. In just over ten weeks time in fact. I’ve ignored the subject because, frankly, the idea of Iain Gray – he’s the leader of the Labour party in Scotland – becoming First Minister is too depressing to contemplate before the idea is thrust upon us by cruel reality and dastardly necessity. Mr Gray is the fifth person to lead Labour’s Holyrood group since devolution and by some hefty distance the least impressive. This is a low bar to fail to clear but there you have it.

For months now it has looked as though Labour would “win” the right to govern with no new ideas at all. Happily, though perhaps too conveniently, a poll has been produced by Ipsos MORI suggesting that actually the election could be interesting after all. By interesting I mean of course that only a handful of seats will change hands.