The Few.

"Scottish Labour has lost nearly a quarter of its membership since the start of the war in Iraq, and looks set to be overtaken by the SNP as the country's biggest party. New figures, to be released this week, show the former dominant force in Scottish politics now has just 18,000 fully paid-up members, compared to the list of 23,000 in 2002."

Mr Smith is amazed that so many of the Comrades have stuck with it. If the war in Iraq and the dismal performance of Scottish Labour Leader Wendy Alexander and her shadow front bench weren't enough to make them jack it in then what will be?

Bye Bye Gerry.

Mr Smith reads in the paper of note that "Labour supporting commentator" and "adviser" Gerry Hassan has quit the Scottish Labour Party after 24 years as a member following the election of Gordon Brown as UK Labour Leader and Wendy Alexander as Scottish Leader. Mr Hassan now apparently also thinks that independence for Scotland would be a good idea.

The most important detail however is the fact that Gerry didn't resign his membership, which would have made it far more difficult to rejoin the Peoples Party should he have ever decided to do so at some point in the future. No our Gerry let his membership "lapse."

Mr Smith suspects he will one day rejoin the fold, once he has something to regain from the process.