O’Conall Street

Glasgow East will go down in Scottish political history and Gordon Brown is now facing right into the abyss. Margaret Curran was an excellent Labour candidate punished for her Prime Minister’s performance, not anything she did.

The Scottish Nationalists are exploiting devolution and their role as the chief national opposition from Scotland at the same time as being the government in Scotland. UUP take note.

Meanwhile the political stand off continues in Belfast. Gerry Kelly (Sinn Fein, Junior Minister) gave an interesting interview this morning citing a long list of devolved matters on which there is no agreement as a major reason for why the Executive is not meeting. This does not make sense. Surely the Executive is where debate takes place and consensus is reached about devolved matters.

Meantime the Utility Regulator tells us this morning that things will be bad this winter and others are rolling in behind him asking when the Executive is going to address this issue or the property crisis, or education or planning.

Makes you begin to wonder….

The good news this morning comes from the east. Obama did the business in style in Berlin yesterday. Patrick Corrigan has an interesting take on it this morning on his blog.

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