Before jumping head first into the new year, I want to hold onto the last vestige of Christmas.
With that in mind, I want to thank some key organisations who helped deliver the biggest Christmas lights event in Garscadden/Scotstounhill.
In addition to the council, Kingsway Community Connections, Scotstoun Community Council and Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre should be commended for their efforts.
Colm Merrick, the SNP Holyrood candidate for Anniesland, who attended, told me how impressed he was with the sense of community at the switch-on event.
I couldn’t agree more.
While the festivities led to many starting the new year on a high, not everyone was so joyful.
Labour’s branch manager in Scotland, Anas Sarwar, started the year by calling his own MPs “idiotic”.
He didn’t do that because of their abject failure to deliver for Scotland – including a £6 million cut to Glasgow – instead it was for fighting amongst themselves.
It was less than two years ago he was telling us why we needed to vote for these “idiotic” individuals.
Sarwar has also got his boss in his sights.
He doesn’t want Sir Keir Starmer campaigning in Scotland during the upcoming election.
Of course, he doesn’t want the head of a government with an 11 per cent approval rating, headed by a prime minister whose own unpopularity is second only to a woman who had less staying power than a vegetable.
Regular readers will know that a manufactured squabble between Sarwar and Starmer is a semi-regular tactic to portray Sarwar as anything other than Starmer’s supine supplicant.
The reality is that Sarwar was Starmer’s chief cheerleader in Scotland and still is.
Labour’s woes aren’t entirely self-inflicted.
The reason why the polls show the SNP on course to win the upcoming election is due to the delivery of John Swinney and the Scottish Government.
NHS waiting times are down, GP numbers are up, literacy and numeracy are at record levels, business investment is at a 20-year high, unemployment is lower than in England and, most importantly, child poverty has reduced in Scotland.
Make no mistake, all of these achievements are not accidental.
There is much work to be done, but that work will only be done under John Swinney and the SNP.
As campaigning gets going again after the festive break, voters will be presented with a clear choice: hope for a better future under John Swinney and the SNP or a Scottish edition of a hopeless government under Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party.
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