THE LibDems officially launched their campaign in Edinburgh West on Saturday with former leader Sir Menzies Campbell doing the honours. The party had just had a great council result in the area, he beamed. “Kevin Pringle had more votes than the rest put together!” Oops. The winning LibDem councillor was Kevin Lang. Kevin Pringle is a fabled spindoctor for the SNP.
An old pro, Ming quickly joked his way clear. Looking at his wife, the legendary Lady Elspeth, he told activists: “If you think you’ve given me a hard time, wait till I get home.”
THEY do things differently in South Lanarkshire. Trying to explain away her party’s thrashing in the local election, Labour MSP Monica Lennon said Tory gains were down to a strong anti-independence message "which has nothing to do with emptying your bins or your potholes". Emptying bins we can understand, but emptying potholes? No wonder they lost.
JUST how Tory is East Renfrewshire hopeful Paul Masterton? Very, judging by his past life on Twitter as @gingertwit. In 2015, he asked the makers of the ‘Glasgow as F***’ T-Shirt line: “I don’t suppose you have a ‘Tory as F***’ range? I’m thinking maybe in a nice royal blue?” He was disappointed. “We prefer to see products people want to buy,” came the shirty reply.
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