Revisionism

I will admit to being nonplussed at Jenny Dawe's very personal attack on Labour Leader Ewan Aitken in tonight's Evening News...she must be under greater internal pressure to prove her leadership than I believed. Of course, her job is to promote her Coalition and its decisions and equally obviously, it's Ewan's job to scrutinise, probe and criticise.

One of the big points she made during her budget speech was 'that the people of Edinburgh voted for change'...what she failed to remind the public of was that in fact Labour secured the largest number of first preference votes (hardly a vote of no confidence by the people) and that the Lib Dem/SNP Coalition now running this city was the result of a backdoor, secret deal which was never put to or endorsed by the people.

Maybe that's why Cllr Dawe sounds so rattled. She knows fine and well she cheated the Edinburgh public of their expressed preference with her shabby accomodation with the Nats and now she has to prove the correctness of her choice...another 4 years of this revisionism about Labour's overwhelmingly successful governance of the city over the past 25 years and she might even convince herself...but there's that old familiar saying she should never forget: 'you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.'