New Scottish Labour Leader, Jim Murphy, is said today to have recalled from Westminster all of the Scottish Labour MPs, with instructions to start fighting to retain their seats.
Who better to do that than those who might lose them?
There is nothing to do at Westminster these days, with no resemblance of a legislative programme to trouble anyone in advance of the ever nearing General Election in May.
This situation is so familiar to Scots after a similar but more prolonged dearth of serious legislation, for exactly the same reasons, in the endless run up to to indyref last September – that we have barely noticed the stasis down south.
But as a senior MP himself – and for how long he has still to tell us – Jim Murphy could not be better placed to see where the priorities for his party lie.
These priorities have now fused indissolubly into the priorities for the Labour party in Scotland which Mr Murphy leads.
With the SNP threatening to do all if can to shred the Labour seat count in Scotland, any losses sustained will directly cripple the hopes of the party across the UK of being in a post-election position to take power.
It therefore remains a mystery that there be any should be truth in the assertions of today that Mr Murphy’s action has provoked a stushie with national party leader, Ed Miliband.
Surely Mr Miliband can understand that the better Mr Murphy can do with Scottish Labour, the better Miliband’s own chances in the election shake down?
