For years politicians in Scotland have bemoaned our national addiction to alcohol.

“Something must be done,”  has been the cry.

Now that the Scottish government does propose to do something Labour, the Tories and LibDems all decide that this represents a great opportunity to kick the SNP.

How much better it was when governing politicians wrung their hands and made speeches and told us all how terrible it was without actually trying to do anything about it.

Those, like me, who are sick to death of seeing children’s playparks covered in broken bottles on Saturday mornings from the excesses of the night before would prefer to see some action.

More seriously, those who have to work in our A and E departments must be disgusted by the the drink-fuelled violence that they witness every weekend.  

But, for our opposition politicians, that matters much less than having a go at Kenny MacAskill and Nicola Sturgeon.

It is occasions like these that remind you just how unfit Labour, in particular, is  for office.