Odd is it not, that inflamatory comments on the Sunday Express cannot be rebutted?

Suddenly Swine Flu isn't so funny any longer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8099832.stm


The patient had underlying health problems which may have been exacerbated by the virus. I note that one of the tabloid Sundays was carrying a story this morning claiming that Scotland had more sufferers than Mexico. Why?

Labour on thin ice as support for SNP soars from 18% to 31% over the past four years.

Sunday Times carries a YouGov poll this morning which makes for even more bad reading for Iain Gray, Jim Murphy and Gordon Brown.

The Labour party could be set to lose more than a third of its MPs. Notably:

Des Browne, the former Scottish secretary and defence secretary;

Nigel Griffiths, the former small businesses minister;

James McGovern, the MP for Dundee West;

Michael Connarty (Linlithgow and East Falkirk);

Frank Doran (Aberdeen North);

Ann McKechin (Glasgow North);

Gavin Strang (Edinburgh East);

Anne Begg (Aberdeen South);

Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith);

Gordon Banks (Ochil and South Perthshire);

Russell Brown (Dumfries and Galloway)

Add to that the increasingly shoogly pegs for Jim Devine, Anne Moffat, Alastair Darling, Eric Joyce and Jim Murphy and it could be difficult to envisage a Labour presence after the next General Election.

Sample Size: 1048
Fieldwork: 2nd - 4th June 2009

SNP 31% (up from 18% in 2005)
Labour 28% (down from 40% in 2005)
Conservative 17% (up from 16% in 2005)
Lib/Dem 16% (down from 23% in 2005)