Rainbow Defections: So Last Year but Tartan Set Set to Join In?

Defective Lib Dem PPCs were everywhere with three of seven gained by the Tories given jolly good references here.

Iain Dale's predictions suggested some Lab>>Con treachery with just one name in the frame.

Respect got in on the act enticing a reliable recruit who already had Labour and the Lib Dems to his name and may now be asked to vote Tory along with the other Trots. And who knows? Perhaps also send comradely messages of solidarity to the emerging Tory-Trot alliance in Tower Hamlets. You heard it here first.

There was of course a brilliant Manchester gain from the Lib Dems to Labour adding to their pain on losing four at the ballots. But in this case it was their bullied £23,000 benefactor. Leader Simon Ashley should have jumped then. Now sadly he'll have to be pushed.

Today in Scotland The Sunday Herald don't seem altogether downhearted that a lifelong Union-minded Labourite Westminster MP is dallying with rampant SNP-ery.

Three or four years ago I gave a gimmick of a political Chameleon to Labour up here. They laughed and said it was too daft. But didn't take long to come up with it again themselves, targeting Dave/id rather than the Lib Dems with the twist in their tales, their slippery tongues, and their yellow bellied chameleon politics. Now they'll have to add a tartan dimension to the meme. Though of course Dave/id has already changed back and forth once or twice on the devolution question.

Hats off to Dave's Part for the SP on the Herald.