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.