Labour needs to challenge Alex Salmond ? and quickly | Kevin McKenna (Guardian)
Alex Salmond is having a stoating election, but it's not too late for Labour
to gain some momentum
The SNP's scholarly education minister, Mike Russell, is a formidable force at
Holyrood when holding forth in debate. There he was just a few weeks before
the end of the last session of parliament smiting an assortment of hapless and
semi-literate opposition MSPs, sending them to the furthest boundaries of the
chamber. Russell was defending his decision to ring-fence free university
education for Scottish students and not a single combatant could lay a glove
on him. His adopted tone for the afternoon was one of patronising scorn, as
when he chided another quivering Tory nonentity thus: "No greater joy in
heaven is there than over a sinner who doth repent."
Labour simply do not possess his equivalent. Nor do they have anyone who can
match John Swinney, the sure-footed finance minister whom Harry Potter will
surely resemble when he becomes headmaster at Hogwarts. Nicola Sturgeon and
Kenny MacAskill, similarly, have grown into their cabinet roles and they, too,
lorded it over their Labour opponents in the third Scottish parliament.
So even when Alex Salmond tilts at windmills by ...
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