Are Labour too pished to comprehend?

News that supermarket behemoth Tesco, are minded to think minimum pricing for alcohol is a good idea, brings a problem. Where do the unionist booze loving supporters in the Scottish Parliament go now? Every attempt to debate this issue has led to Labour politicians weeping into their glasses at the loss of the right to get pure mad mental pished on buckie, 'it's a human right ya dobber', seems to be their rebuttal to any attempt at informed discourse.

The sublimely named, Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Tesco's director for corporate affairs, has an interesting tack on the booze and binge culture, she blames the UK government. She says in the absence of government action, poor old Tescocks have to compete on price.

"As a result there is lots of cheap alcohol, so we thought let's ask the government to look at should there be a minimum price for alcohol, or should there be a ban on low-cost selling.

"Could it be justified because it will deal with the problem at the lower end?"

Now colour me stupified, but does that not sound a million miles closer to what the SNP have been saying in Government? Especially when compared to the stupidity of my local Labour politicians Elaine 'tiny tears' Murray and the diminutive Russell Brown, who envisage booze buses on the Whitesands of Dumfries, all set to invade the pile-it-high-sell-it-cheap booze warehouses destined to be found over the border in Carlisle?

The British Medical Association, police throughout the UK, and the Westminster Health Committee back the idea of minimum alcohol pricing. Now that Tesco have jumped into bed with the same approach, where exactly does this leave Gray, Goldie and Scott?