Reasons to be cheerful

I'm in a very good mood this afternoon. In fact I have three good reasons to be cheerful.

Firstly, I travelled up to Hull on the soon to be Nationalised Express (at 23.59 tonight to be precise). Great service, great staff and it arrived on time.

Compare that to the First Group. First Capital Connect could only run half its services and their takeover of Hull Trains has reduced it from a reliable and admirable service to an absolute disgrace.

Secondly, Labour held Glasgow North East with a swing to us from the Lib Dems. Congratulations to Willie Bain and his team, especially Young Labour. Just goes to show what you can do if you fight a good local campaign. Top down never works.

But the icing on the cake had to be the Sun losing 135,000 readers since it backed the Tories in October. All this in spite of them slashing the cost of the paper to 20p and doing all they can to attack Labour.

As my mate Peter said, it's quite clear there's a contract between the Tories and Murdoch's Sun. News International Rebekah Brooks (nee Wade) is pulling out all the stops to promote it. The personal and vindicative attack on Gordon and that letter showed how nasty they can get.

As far as I'm concerned the nasty paper and the nasty party throughly deserve each other.

So to celebrate 135,000 coming to their senses and binning the Sun, we thought we'd pay our own tribute!

Have a great weekend!