It is official – I really have seen it all now.

CRAG (Capital Rail Action Group. Click here for their website) has called for the tram project to be completed at any cost as it is: “the will of the Scottish parliament”.

Really – well maybe they haven’t been keeping up to date with current events, but times are hard. There is, Labour tells us, no money left.

CRAG has just published their election manifesto and asked candidates to support it.

Well, this is one candidate who will decline.

I only wish CRAG had put it’s money where it’s mouth is and put up a candidate for the elections!

Their reasoning is that loads of other projects have gone horribly over budget – so why not the trams?

What kind of reasoning is this? Consider the scenario where you ordered something and you kept getting phone calls from the salesman to the effect:  ”Very sorry, but the price has gone up again, please send your cheque to…”

There will come a time when you simply say: “No”.

Again, as Liam Byrne, Labour’s former Chief Secretary to the Treasury said: “There’s no money left”.

Perhaps if they had stated where the money should come from, which council services should get axed, whose jobs should go, then they could defend their position. But they haven’t.

For their press release/election manifesto, click here