Backing of the Party?

FMQs has come and gone and Wendy has said that she does want and early referendum (which is odd as yesterday Gordon Brown said she wasn`t calling for an early election…).

Its fairly clear that Wendy doesn`t have Brown’s backing, various MPs and MSPs have been briefing off the record that they don`t back her sudden U-turn on the election.

But does she have the backing of other parts of her party? Well the referendum plan certainly doesn`t have the backing of North Edinburgh councillor Elizabeth Maginnis.

In her blog she says “The question Wendy should be addressing right now is how to renew the appeal of the Labour Party. It certainly won't be achieved by allowing the SNP, new darlings of the media, to play on its own ground, to its own strengths - especially when, lying behind the stratagem is an apparently unspoken acknowledgement, that Labour is weakened and may only do worse in a General Election.

This is very risky territory: I, for one, am totally opposed to the idea of Scotland as a separate State. I am yet to be persuaded this tactic can maintain a United Kingdom.”