Eddie Barnes - The 2011 election campaign begins
All the Scottish papers today carry the story about Labour's plans for a new Property tax to replace the Council tax.
I was struck by the Daily Record's coverage of the tale, under the headline "Vote For Us and We Will Axe the Council Tax." Do I detect the first shot of the 2011 Scottish election campaign here?
Steamie readers will recall that it was the SNP which went into the 2007 campaign with billboards plastered across Scotland pledging to "axe the tax". But after opting to dump their plans for a Local Income tax, and stick with the Council tax for now, that has now been downgraded to a pledge to freeze the fees.
Now Iain Gray looks like he's going to try and steal Alex Salmond's clothes, and will head into the next campaign pledging to do what Alex didn't.
Only another two years until we actually get to vote......
I was struck by the Daily Record's coverage of the tale, under the headline "Vote For Us and We Will Axe the Council Tax." Do I detect the first shot of the 2011 Scottish election campaign here?
Steamie readers will recall that it was the SNP which went into the 2007 campaign with billboards plastered across Scotland pledging to "axe the tax". But after opting to dump their plans for a Local Income tax, and stick with the Council tax for now, that has now been downgraded to a pledge to freeze the fees.
Now Iain Gray looks like he's going to try and steal Alex Salmond's clothes, and will head into the next campaign pledging to do what Alex didn't.
Only another two years until we actually get to vote......
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I don't think Labour want to form the Govt in 2011. Another minority SNP Govt would suit them fine, they could continue to snipe from the sidelines and blame the SNP for all the public spending cuts and hardship which is yet to come - a Tartan Tory alliance as they will portray it.
If they were in Govt, and they have a visceral hatred for the Tories in the shape of David Cameron if not Auntie Bella, then they would have to oppose the Westminster Govt or get torn apart by their own supporters. That would actually strengthen the case for independence.
So I don't think they want to win. Which is probably why they don't have any new policies apart from this rehashed old mince which they rightly rejected the first time they thought of it.
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