Please Sir, can we have some cash?

What a bizarre story this is?

It transpires that the Edinburgh city council's "previous administration" (The Herald's way of admitting it was Labour) asked Sir Tom Hunter for money to prop up investment in schools.

Is this really the way forward for Scotland? We don't have enough cash for public services so we ask the rich to bail us out? Perhaps Sean Connery could finance drug rehabilitation centres and JK Rowling could buy a hospital for us? They won't miss the cash, they're rich after all.

How desperate must a council be for money before they would make such a surprising and slightly rude request? And the next line of thinking, what drastic action is going to be required going forward if the council doesn't get this cash that they, clearly, so desperately need. Necessary school closures perhaps?

We can't walk on eggshells on this one and pussyfoot around with enquiries and meetings and delays if the clear answer all along is going to be that there are too many schools or cuts need to be made. Basically, the SNP need to sort out a decisive course of action, whether it is to side with the Lib Dems or side with Labour or put forward their own agenda.

Labour on the other hand need to truly assess if they are being reckless in taking the easy populist approach of the "Save our Schools" campaign. If the money isn't there, then it should really be a "Save our Schools but....." campaign.

And given they didn't get any of Sir Tom's cash in the last administration, I'd like to see what Labour's but looks like this time around.