Stubborn and Deluded



By common consent Ed Miliband had a very bad night in the party leaders' Question Time the other night, in front of a studio audience, and came badly unstuck in denying that the last Labour Government had any responsibility whatsoever for the problems facing the UK economy.

 But Ed's biggest mistake, north of the border at least, was to set his face against any notion of co-operating with the SNP, even if the nationalists win a big majority of the Westminster seats which are up for grabs in Thursday's general election.

 So even if there is a huge groundswell of public opinion against the Labour Party in Scotland which looks likely according to all the polls, Labour's UK leader is effectively saying that Scots voters can 'go take a hike' - that their views and opinions don't really count for anything.

 Now this doesn't sound too socialist or democratic to me; in fact Ed's stance sounds completely deluded, a bit like the insanely stubborn 'Black Knight' character from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 

 As if a Labour prime minister, or any prime minister for that matter, can govern the country effectively with only 35% or so of the popular vote.        

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