Sarwar must be having a laugh - John McLellan
In an interview last week he made the bizarre observation that there are not enough Glaswegians in the SNP cabinet, the same one which until two months ago was led by someone from the same Glasgow private school as him, and for the eight years before Humza Yousaf by a certain Govan MSP.
Speaking as a Glaswegian, does anyone really care where cabinet members come from or represent if they do a decent job? After all, shamed ex-health minister Michael Matheson comes from Toryglen, near Hampden Park, and former finance secretary Derek Mackay, also forced out by scandal, hailed from Paisley.
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Then this week, Mr Sarwar made the ludicrous claim that Labour's plan to slap VAT on fees for private schools like his would reduce violence in comprehensive schools.
His logic was that the money raised would fund more teachers in state schools, and more teachers would mean less violence, which takes some stretch of the imagination as it's estimated there will be no net benefit to the Scottish budget because of the high number of pupils leaving or not entering private education.
And this year, half of postgraduate teacher training places went unfilled, despite a Scottish Government recruitment drive, so how taxing private school parents solves this is anyone's guess. Mr Sarwar must be having a laugh.
