Oooohhhh The Irony!

Now, I am an accountant. Yeah, yeah, not a boring one! The first rule of accountancy is prudence.

Now auditors are even more boring than accountants if that is believable. And they are even more prudent, checking to see that every last penny is accounted for.

So it is incredibly ironic to see how the Audit (yeah, that's right AUDIT) Commission has just lost £10,000,000 because it was invested in an Icelandic Bank.

Oh, how I laughed.

Glenrothes By-Election

It was once famously said that a week is a long time in politics. Well if a week is a long time, then a couple of months must be a lifetime.

Just think back to the height of summer, or as we call it in Scotland – the mild part of winter. Back then in July, just after John Mason won Glasgow East, Gordon Brown was teetering on the brink. Nobody knew if he would make it through one week to the next as PM. Some were questioning if Glasgow East was the final straw.

Fast forward to the Glenrothes by-election. Where are all the Labour MPs who were calling for the PM’s head? If Labour lose this seat, will there be the same clamour for GB to resign.

NO.

Why? Because people see GB as the best person to get us out of this economic mess that HE precipitated over. Oooohhh the irony.

He may yet be saved because of his own incompetence.

But that probably won’t save them from the wrath of the Glenrothes electorate.