Analysis Don't trust politicians who promise to work tirelessly. "I will not rest until..." Nonsense. They need sleep too. Except, that is, Wendy Alexander.
When she promises to work tirelessly, she means it. You can tell by the white knuckles of her party staff.
Yesterday, the energetic MSP stopped long enough to watch "All About Wendy", one of those downhome biopics that precede great political orations in the modern era.
This one had Paisley constituents singing her praises, a chum who confides in her, her former boss in the business of corporate re-engineering saying her leadership will be "very unusual" (it seemed that was meant as a compliment) and her Auntie Marion coyly observing: "She'll maybe knock some folk into shape". How her colleagues laughed nervously.
They were there to register their Pyongyang-style 100% support from her MSP group and the party's executive. That is even more than her late mentor Donald Dewar, when he was confirmed in the Scottish Labour leadership nine years ago. He was denied unanimity only by the principled abstention of a small trade union.
Ms Alexander's reverend father was on radio yesterday saying she talked a lot when she was young, which somehow came as little surprise. Even he marvelled at her capacity for focussing on three things at once.
The multiple focuses of her acceptance speech were on being nasty about the SNP (though not "aggressively" so, she promised - "credit where it's due"); being nice about her predecessor Jack McConnell (while acknowledging they had their differences, robustly expressed); and telling the party its reorganisation is going to be root and branch.
She promised a radical road, to be aspirational and inspirational, and talked of vision, reform, trust, compassion, confidence, Labour covering all of Scotland, and, yes, working tirelessly.
To party staff and MSPs, the formality of the Alexander coronation was like the eye of a hurricane - a period of relative calm, knowing that it can only be followed by a sudden wallop of Wendiness from an unexpected direction. That will mean a triple focus on reforming, renewing and reconnecting all at once.
And while there were lots of announcements about party reforms, there was a gap where Gordon Brown's role will be, or Scotland Secretary Des Browne, for that matter.
Ms Alexander made clear she wants to stick with the reserved/devolved boundaries. She will keep out of reserved issues, while warning: "I would not expect the Westminster party to be trespassing into devolved affairs."
There are problems ahead for her around this, as her official job title is "Labour leader in the Scottish Parliament", rather than Scottish Labour leader. A hint of her thinking was a vague new brand concept of "Labour in Scotland".
The speech received a Pyongyang-style standing ovation. The new leader's professorial husband, Brian, looked on with the doe-eyed affection required of the political spouse, and as the tumult continued, someone could be seen scurrying for a quick exit from Glasgow's Lighthouse building. It looked just like Jack McConnell.
Her Majesty's future High Commissioner to Malawi has African poverty to tackle. He was off to work on it. Tirelessly.
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