IT’S NO 1; IT’S TOP OF THE POPS

Freezing this Christmas is apparently selling very well and leading in the download charts in the UK despite the BBC refusing to play it.

I can’t understand why the BBC wouldn’t play it. It’s not like it is advertising anything (the BBC has to be careful about that); it does not criticise the royal family (they have to watch that too) and it is not pornographic.

It’s just a protest song about the fact that British pensioners on low incomes have had between two and three hundred pounds taken from them by the UK government to fill a black hole that the government swore it knew nothing about before it took office.

Oddly John Swinney did know about it (despite working in another parliament in another country) and put it to Mr Sarwar during the debate before the election, where famously, Mr Sarwar answered that there would be no austerity under Labour.

I’m not sure that the BBC was wise to ban it. It simply and gives the song more publicity.

And while we are having a bit of a snigger at embarrassing SIR Starmer, maybe we should have a bit of a titter at old Pam.

I mean, if you thought the Labour government was mean to take £200 or £300 from pensioners, all that fades into relative insignificance, when Glasgow Pam’s £31,000 is mentioned.

There is an embarrassingly long list of Labour MPs and MSPs including Yvette Cooper and HRH DAME Baillie being similarly laughed at.

It’s worth noting that some decent Labour MPs and MSPs are protesting against their government’s decision. Up to a hundred, apparently are so upset by the decision that they may vote against the whip. And to be fair, even Sarwar has said that he thinks it is the wrong decision.