Bad day for labour then? This does n't juts give the gnats a news-cycle, it gives them ammunition for years to come. She does ntt just sound like an ill-educated tory, she actually IS an ill-educated tory.
OTH Cameron must be happy - not only has she vouched for his policies, she has put a big nail through Labour's prospects for the next General Election. If they are lucky, Labour will only lose 15 seats to the SNP, if not they will lose 25...how easy will thqat make it for Ed to gain a majority? Just to add to the fun, the Glib-Dumbs are pretty much finished in Scotland - they are going to lose most of their seats to the SNP as well. What's the chances of the SNP becoming the 3rd party at Westminster? Pretty good unless Clegg can keep 30 seats in England...does that seem likely? Given that they have betrayed their voter-base on everything from Fees to the NHS to cannabis to Trident it seems unlkilely.

After Johann Lamont's disaster at First Minsters question time last year about the cost of steel and its contract within the building of the new bridge across the forth. It would have been very hard to imagine she could do any worse, but surprise surprise, she and the labour party have done just that, welcome to the new RED TORY party, dedicated to taking every service from you unless you can pay.

It would be far, far better for Scottish Labour to follow the lead of Welsh Labour. Down in Wales it was Labour that introduced free prescriptions, free school breakfasts, free bus passes for the elderly, and other universal benefits. Welsh Labour has also outflanked the nationalists on patorism and "standing up for Wales", taking a lot of traditional Plaid Cymru ground.

Now we know what labour would do. In the worst recession in generations, people having their wages frozen and cut year on year along with mass job losses, she would make it even worse by putting up council tax ( and we all know labour love to do that with astronomical rises in Glasgow massively outstripping inflation since the council tax was introduced) and abolishing free prescriptions. I agree to a point that there is a something for nothing culture in Scotland and should we gain independence we could not carry on regardless. There would either be huge cuts or large tax rises. Personally i agree that higher education should not be free but free prescriptions are crucial and the council tax freeze a Godsend for many people in tough times. She has shown that she is out of touch with ordinary people and how they feel. Thats the next election lost for labour.

DMYERS - Johann Lamont is barely an intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT

Scottish Labour has a major problem its plate: the very policies which Johann Lamont has not put up for debate (a debate, conducted via a commission, incidentally, which will not report until after the vote on Independence - how cack=handed is that?) are the policies which the electorate democratically CHOSE in an emphatic election win in 2011. These policies, which aim to improve the lives of ordinary folks, are exactly the policies which a self-respecting Labour Party would have proposed. They didn't, and yesterday Johann confirmed that she had signalled in Blairite language that the centre-left ground was being abandoned. There is now no option for Scots, but Independence.
As if this wasn't bad enough, it was confirmed to Scottish TV viewers, in two mind-numbingly embarrassing interviews on Scotland Tonight and Newsnicht, just why Johann had been kept quiet for months since assuming leadership. Simply not up to it.

Lamont asks: "What is progressive about a banker on more than 100,000 a year benefitting more than a customer on average incomes from the council tax freeze?"

She also applies this logic to higher education, free prescriptions and bus passes for retired citizens.

What Lamont fails to take into account is that these bankers, and others on similar or higher wages, pay tax at the top rate, which over a lifetime equates to hundreds of thousands of pounds for the treasury. For Labour to therefore claim that the poor are subsiding the wealthy is laughable. These people pay more in annual income tax than I earn in a year.

Lamont, it appears, wants to return to the shameful and discredited means testing system which was found to be more expensive to operate than it is to give free prescriptions to all. Labour claim they want an equal society; where is the equality in Lamont resurrecting the class system between the haves and have nots?

This is hardly a surprise from someone who is barely an intellectual heavyweight. Reading through the transcript of the speech betrays her dreadful command of English, and, if you want a laugh, go and have a read on the Scottish Labour website.

If Labour think this character can bring them any sort of electoral benefit, they are even more deluded than I thought. Her 'performance' (she reads all of her questions from a script and never bothers to listen to the answer which has already nullified her next question) at FMQs is laughable. Poor Labour.