I don’t suppose you caught Anas Sarwar’s speech to Scottish Labour conference on telly last weekend? I did – but only because my golf was cancelled by a waterlogged course.

I must say it fair cheered me up with some good belly laughs – not that vaudeville was their intention.

Delegates gathered in Paisley Town Hall – a suitably compact venue – 10 weeks before the Holyrood election.

If the polls are correct the get-together at least provided some of their MSPs with the chance to say cheerio before May.

To say Scottish Labour find themselves in a bit of a bind is an understatement. And who do they blame … Westminster.

Now Labour also blames Westminster

I know what you’re thinking: Don’t Labour always complain when the SNP blame Westminster for things going wrong? Of course they do, but that hypocrisy hasn’t yet dawned on them.

But fair’s fair, let’s look at some of Keir Starmer’s blunders: scrapping cold weather payments for pensioners; keeping the........

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