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LABOUR MSPs LOCK WENDY ALEXANDER IN A CUPBOARD |
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SENIOR Labour MSPs have locked Wendy Alexander in a cupboard in an effort to end speculation about a leadership contest.
Alexander has been at the centre of a series of unattributed media reports since Labour's defeat to the SNP. Wendy Alexander is in this cupboard right now
But the Paisley North MSP has denied any interest in the leadership, telling everyone who will listen that there is no vacancy and that she is flattered simply to be talked about in the same breath as giants such as Margaret Curran, Andy Kerr and Tom McCabe, who are not quite up to the job and perhaps don't have the same depth of vision and understanding or the same relationship with business and academia and if she really wants the job then Gordon Brown will sort it out for her and a contest will be irrelevant.
Following a secret meeting at a Pizza Hut in Renfrew, a group of senior Labour members decided the best course of action was to lock Alexander in a cupboard. According to Labour sources, Alexander was invited to a Holyrood committee room for an impromptu 'group meeting' but as soon as she arrived a cloth bag was placed over her head.
Glasgow Shettleston MSP Frank McAveety held her arms while former education minister Peter Peacock and deputy environment minister Sarah Boyack grabbed a leg each.
The cupboard doors were held open by Cathy Craigie, MSP for Cumbernauld, and David Whitton, the newly elected member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, said: "It's so quiet now. Just lovely. It's like being in the middle of a huge empty field."
First Minister Jack McConnell is expected to announce his resignation within days before joining the cast of BBC soap River City in the role of sex-crazed midget car salesman Bobby Di Rollo.
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