With reference to our post from earlier today, we couldn’t help but notice Scottish Labour whining loudly this morning about the award of the ScotRail franchise to Dutch state-owned railway company Abellio. (On what sound like very good terms.)

We asked the party’s infrastructure spokesman James Kelly what Labour would have done instead had they been in power, and got no reply. So we went and had a look, and it turned out there was a clear and simple answer.
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We’re still on holiday until Tuesday, readers. But we wanted to ask you something.

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From today’s Daily Record:

Better late than never, eh?
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We couldn’t help noticing this sad story from yesterday’s Sunday Times:

That’s Johann Lamont, readers – the woman who wants to lead Scotland, but had to be “rescued” when she tried to negotiate entry into a lift. God save us.
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Not a spoof. Spotted at the Lib Dem conference:

The second paragraph says more than we could.
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David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today:
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Wings stats for September, for those keeping score.
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There’s only one possible sane response to this story. It’s below:

Click the pic to sign. Let’s see who gets the most, shall we?
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Because nothing scares Etonian Tory Prime Ministers like a poster on a van.

Your time is over, Daily Record. Tick tock.
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Daily Record, Saturday 27 September:

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Don’t panic, readers – I’m not about to make you look at all my holiday snaps. But after Thursday’s “Gone fishin'” post, I was buying milk in the local Co-op and got busted by a reader demanding to know why I wasn’t at the seaside, so this is for him.

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