JEREMY Corbyn’s visit to Glasgow yesterday started with him being mobbed by janitors angry about pay cuts and Labour-run City Council. Jezza’s ear was bent till it was red hot about the shortcomings of city boss Frank McAveety. Alas, no one seems to have told Kezia Dugdale, who began her speech by welcoming Jez to “a city where our Labour team, led by Frank McAveety... is standing up to the SNP’s cuts to local services”. Awkward.

ALSO outside the event was former Socialist Organiser rebel Stan Crooks, who was thrown out the party in the bygone days of Militant, but is now back in the fold. According to legend, Stan’s expulsion led to protests outside Labour HQ in Glasgow, where his defenders held up an immortal sign declaring: “Keep Crooks in the Labour Party.” They were clearly victorious.

THE mountain of old CIA files declassified last week included several local nuggets, most featuring one “Scottish Nationalist Party”. Like the National Intelligence Briefing from 1975 on the UK vote to stay in the then European Community. “In Scotland, a surprising 58 per cent voted to remain in the EC,” it said. “This is a blow to the Scottish Nationalists, who encouraged a ‘no’ to protest that England had dragged Scotland into the EC.” How times change, sort of.

ALSO released were campaign invoices from the Holyrood election. The poll was shortly after the SNP Government announced a fracking moratorium, and ministers were supposedly agnostic on the issue pending further research. Yet one receipt shows Nicola Sturgeon’s hubby Peter Murrell, the SNP chief executive, ordering 10,000 ‘Frack Off’ badges for £876. Tsk, tsk.

IS a Unionist prankster targeting Ms Sturgeon’s official residence, wonders an Unspun mole. Last week a mobile billboard appeared in Charlotte Square opposite Bute House advertising the latest show at the Edinburgh Playhouse - Wonderland. “Do you think some Better Together type is trying to send the FM a message?” asks our source.

BUTTERIEST fingers of the week belong to SNP spindoctor Fergus Mutch, who accidentally sent an email meant for his MSPs to most of parliament on Tuesday. It contained Ms Sturgeon’s response to Theresa May’s Brexit speech, with the instruction to read every word before daring to speak in that day’s EU debate. Other parties were as grateful for the tip as they were mocking of the control. Fergus now insists it was "sent to the Tories for their own good".

FULTON ‘No Show’ MacGregor, the hustings-phobic SNP MSP, finally made an impression this week, with one of the duffest speeches heard in a while at Holyrood. To quote the Official Report: “Maggie Thatcher took the heart out of Coatbridge, and Theresa May and David Cameron are doing nothing but kicking us on the head. I cannot let my Labour colleagues off, either…. Only one organisation has done anything for the people of Coatbridge over recent years, and that is the Scottish Government [Laughter.]” Donald Trump, you have a rival.