Second team

I AM sure Alex Salmond and the SNP will be quaking in their boots at the thought of going head-to-head with Labour MSP Margaret Curran and her Team Scotland, unveiled last week.

Looking at team members it is very clear this is at best Labour’s second string.

You would think that if Labour was serious about challenging the SNP’s independence plans it would field its supposed big hitters such as Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Douglas Alexander and John Reid and not a parcel of second-rate nonentities. I understand that Labour is trying to recruit comedian Billy Connolly to lead this campaign, how very apt.

Alasdair MacPherson

Hillhead Farm

Bannockburn