Having a laugh?

For some reason, it took Wikipedia to tell me who is involved in the Scottish Constitutional Commission and I nearly fell off my chair when I saw John Loughton is involved. For those not in the know, John Loughton is the 21 year old who won Big Brother recently.

I was particularly interested in who would be included given that George Reid, ex-Presiding Officer of the Holyrood Chamber, was passed over by the UK Labour party, reinforcing the message that this is a Westminster review and Wendy has little say in it.

George Reid has immense knowledge of the Holyrood process, devolved powers and the Scotland Act. He is respected across the political spectrum and to be passed over for being "too nationalist" is a missed opportunity and a cheap trick by the Labour party.

But to then bring John Loughton into the fold, a man(?) whose experience in Politics is extremely thin, also shows very poor judgement.

I can just picture the sympathetic smiles, bordering on understandable condescension, from the remainder of the working group as John says his piece about how Scotland's constitution should be shaped. It will be similar to the cringing I myself do when reporters go into schools and interview kids on the BBC News.

Further to this, what can be said of John Loughton when, upon being asked which party he would like to join in the future, his reply was "whichever party makes me the best offer".

Nice. Good to see he has his principles in place.

So not for the first time in the past year, the Labour party have stuffed up again.