Don’t take my word for it just ask Iain Gray, Labour’s leader at the Scottish Parliament. This is from a leaflet sent to voters in Edinburgh by Labour:
Aye, well, there you go. Ye ken noo.
Depressingly, Scottish schools now exist as a kind of control group against which we may measure the success of the English school reforms instigated by Lord Adonis and continued by Michael Gove. I hope the English win.
Meanwhile, in other depressing election-leaflet news, I’ve yet to receive anything from the Jacobite Party who stood (manfully) and fell (equally manfully) in these parts last year. Surely they can’t have given it up as a Lost Cause?
Nor is Iain Gray the only Labour chap to blunder in this fashion. There’s Charlie Gordon too.
[Tips of the Hat to Rob Marrs and Jeff Breslin]
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