The Chief Secretary to the Treasury's analysis of the Scottish elections was breathtaking and laughable. It couldn't have been just arrogance and a dash of wishful thinking to suggest the SNP, the winning and most dominant party in Scotland must have been "bitterly disappointed" by the vote on Thursday. But even a crude view of the numbers would indicate something more delusional.
The Liberal Democrats in Scotland are a spent force. Their previously poor total of 151 councillors was reduced to a rump of just 71, some way short of the dismal Conservatives on 115. Meanwhile the good ship Salmond has 424 seats and Labour 394. Alexander bemoaned the mid-term blues of the Coalition's cumalitive loss of 800 seats to Labour across Britain. But the SNP were in their mid-term too yet they picked up 57 seats.
Danny's pompous sniping at the Nationalists reminded me of a prefect poised to fail all his A-Levels. We know, and he knows, all his authority will soon me taken from him yet in the meantime he throws his weight around at his familiar enemies.
The Liberal Democrats now have less than 3,000 councillors nationwide so have returned to where they were in 1988 under David Steel before Ashdown and Kennedy carved them a niche as a proper third party. Yet, Danny Boy seems fine about pontificating about SNP's "failure" to convince the electorate on the case for Independence. He is tallking about people's convictions based on the way he wishes the world to be and not by what people actually think.
In Edinburgh ward of Pentland Hills, the Lib-Dem candidate lost to a man dressed as a penguin. As a Minister Alexander can make any observation he likes, however obtuse. But very soon he will have no right to even say it.
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