 | 'Brown has been an unmitigated disaster for Labour in Scotland, and not just because of his reputation as a ditherer. He installed his protege Wendy Alexander - without an election - as leader of the Scottish party, and plunged Labour into its worst crisis since the resignation of Henry McLeish as first minister in 2001. Alexander was supposed to be the fresh new face of Labour, but she has emerged as a deluded opportunist who claims to be "socialist" while getting caught up in a row about illegal donations from property developers; who mounts campaigns against cuts in services even as her mentor, Gordon Brown, was cutting the funding to pay for them.' Iain Macwhirter in the Guardian, 14 th April 2008. |  |
