Labour in disarray

My goodness, that didn’t take long.


I appreciate that over the past few weeks the Sunday Herald’s Paul Hutcheon has been rather loose with his reporting of stories but it does appear that the wheels of Team Wendy are falling off just as the wannabe juggernaut attempted to move into 2nd gear.

The headhunted head of communications, Brian Lironi, is set to resign only one week into the job and after George Foulkes labelled him an idiot. Wendy seems to have lacked the wherewithal to ease Brian’s righteous anger over the debacle.

The old New Labour trick of centralising decision making and forming a ‘clique’ seems to be Wendy’s chosen method of governance of the Labour party and MSPs are not a happy bunch. In other words, Wendy is taking her own MSPs for granted, one can only wonder about the level of contempt she will hold for the electorate at large.

The 24-hour working schedule that Wendy employs, which makes a mockery of the idea of work-life balance, seems to be in full operation. There’s only so long such an oppressive approach can be taken to working life before the Labour Indians start revolting against their Chief.


So in Wendy’s first week, the only potential high points are a distinctly average performance at FMQs and instating her Chinese Take Away buddies in their promised slots in the Shadow Cabinet.


It’s hardly “hitting the ground running”.