Despite his fighting talk, an election defeat would likely trigger the resignation of Jack McConnell as Labour leader. Front runners to replace him are Health Minister Andy Kerr and back-bencher Wendy Alexander, who is already being touted by figures in Westminster.
When the delegation of men in shiny suits and shinier ties approaches Mr McConnell with the pearl-handled revolver, he will be expected to go gentle into that good night (and with no nonsense about raging against anything). But Mr Kerr (representing the bampot tendency) and Ms Wendy 'Smarts' Alexander can expect competition from Long Tom McCabe, the machine politician par excellence, as well as from Margaret Curran, the Clytemnestra of Scottish labour politics. Expect a bloody contest.
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Was there, I wonder, a putsch of Scottish Labour in the early 1990s, removing all those who betrayed any signs of charisma? It is ironic that Mr Salmond should do so well today, as his authority is based on his status at Westminster, and not from his deeds among the nest of fearties at Holyrood.
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