Homesick Blues.

"SNP candidate Peter Grant was branded "half-hearted" for saying he would quit as an MP after just five years. The Nats' candidate for Glenrothes said he would be "homesick" after five years at Westminster, if he is elected. He also believes Scotland will be independent by then and have no MPs at Westminster."

It will be interesting to see if Mr Grant is right, and more to the point whether the voters of Glenrothex will give him the chance to be homesick.

Between Jobs.

From the Herald Diary, "POLITICAL candidates will look for any favourable signs that they are going to do well in an election. We bump into Peter Grant, the local council leader who is the SNP's candidate in the Glenrothes by-election who tells us excitedly: "I've just got a new tax code from HMRC with a letter saying We believe you are currently between jobs'.
"Do they know something I don't?"

Probably.