SNP surges ahead of Labour in wake of budget

It was only a few weeks ago that Iain Gray told delegates at his Scottish Liebour conference in Dundee (now a fully SNP city) that apparently "Scottish Labour is back"! Oh, how wrong he was!! Today, only about a month later, the SNP has proved once more that not only is Labour in Scotland NOT back but it's now in a worse and dire state than it ever has been before! Seriously, it's just getting embarrassing for them now! And to give you an idea of just how sad a state they're in, have a look at who voter's wanted as First Minister. Alex Salmond leads once again on 37%, a massive 19 points ahead of Iain Gray who is not only in third place (behind Annabel Goldie who is Second on 10%) but is actually only got the support of just 7% of those polled!! That's lower than what Wendy Alexander got!! So great progress Iain, what an achievement! You've actually succeeded in becoming less popular than your predecessor, Alexander the not so great! Think about though, managing to become less popular than Wendy Alexander is definitely an achievement and Iain Gray deserves our congratulations for doing so! Or perhaps not!

In terms of Holyrood voting intentions, in the constituency vote the SNP leads over Labour by 7 points and in the regional vote the SNP leads by 9 points! What this poll actually shows, if you look closely into the results, you actually find that the SNP is actually more popular among Labour voters than Labour is! As for Westminster, both SNP and Labour are neck-and-neck with Labour on 32% and SNP on 30%! This to me says that the SNP is becoming closer to achieving our 20 seat target at Westminster! One seat to watch: Dundee West, a seat now certain to go SNP at the next election! So for Labour it's a sorry state of affairs but, in the end of the day, does anyone really feel sorry for them? Nah, didn't think so!

Labour party is sinking in sleaze!

Well, the story of the "smear campaign" emails appears not to be letting up, which personally I think is great as it allows myself and many other bloggers to talk about the absolutely dire situation in which the Labour party appears to have entrenched itself! It's now becoming a weekly habit, with yet another story of sleaze coming out constantly. It used to be that it was tales of "Cash for honours" when it was Tony Blair, which certainly caused him a bit of bother, to say the least, then Gordon Brown came to power with a "pledge" to end the evil Bogey monster that is spin!! But, just like the story of his life, he broke that promise with devastating consequences, for him anyway! First there was expenses. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate that expenses are important for MP's who live in Places like Shetland, but how can an MP who lives in London be able to claim expenses for 3 different homes, not to mention all the essential perks that just have to come with those homes such as the 42" widescreen plasma screen HD TV!! Oh, and let's not forget the £300 expenses claims for, wait for it, PLANT POTS!!! Yes, your read it correctly. That's Jacqui Smith for you! And what about the Chancellor Alistair Darling? Well he's claimed expenses for 4 homes, despite the fact that his official home at 11 Downing Street is Rent Free! And for some reason one of the homes he claimed expenses claims for was in the Western Isles! I don't get it, what would an MP who represents an Edinburgh constituency need a home in the Western Isles for? Oh, that's right, it's a "holiday home"!! Well that makes perfect sense now why it would require taxpayers money to pay for it!



Seriously, Labour is sinking in sleaze. Another recent example of this was Jacqui Smith's husband. Yet another expenses claim, though not for a house this time. Instead they claimed taxpayers cash for pornographic movies, or should I say "added features"! This is a disgrace, and what's even more disgraceful is that the money claimed has not been asked to be paid back to the taxpayer! This week, we've had the latest "Big" story with the "Blog-gate affair"! Gordon Brown claims that he did not know about it, but how on earth could he possibly not know about it when he is his closest advisor whom he spends more time with than his wife, Sarah Brown! It's all a bit of a mystery to me, but what it does show is that if the Labour government can't even control it's own advisers, then how can it possibly control the country, especially at a time of recession, one which Labour created!! The end of the New Labour project is near!

The power of blogs

If anyone out there has ever doubted the power political blogs have then please switch on your TV and watch the news. Recent emails sent from none other than 10 Downing Street have been uncovered which show that one of Gordon Browns closest advisers attempted to launch a 'smear campaign' against the Tories. It is hugely embarrassing for Brown but I'm not going to say anymore about it as it was actually a fellow political blogger who managed to uncover the emails and has announced that he will make the emails public on his blog from tomorrow (12th April). He's been on the TV telling the news reporters all about his find and the story has even made it as the main news headline! The very fact that it was a blog which discovered these emails just goes to show how powerful blogs and there bloggers are! This particular blogger is known for being controversial but is very good and I congratulate him on his find! Personally, I'm eagerly looking forward to the emails becoming public tomorrow. You can find the blog on http://www.order-order.com/