At times of crisis – when it feels as if the world is collapsing in on itself – it’s worth remembering, there’s almost always someone else in an even worse predicament than yourself. Even when your own cataclysmic errors of judgment are directly responsible for the arse falling out of the empire, 99 times out 100 some other poor bugger is making an even bigger backside of things someplace else.
Granted, that may not come as any great source of solace to the likes of Nicola Sturgeon and Rishi Sunak after a week of spectacular parliamentary self harming which has left them suffocating in chaos of their own making. But at least this morning the pair of them can take a deep breath, wipe the sweat from their brows and take a crumb of comfort from the knowledge that it could be worse. They could be Aberdeen.
Because when it comes to a lamentable lack of clear, decisive leadership, Dave Cormack has beaten them both. By a landslide. If a week is a long time in politics then 48 hours at Pittodrie felt like an eternity, after Cormack’s big red bus took a wrong turn and ended up being ambushed in Darvel last Monday night.
