Champagne and Socialists
I know - I must be mad - but soon the excitment will end and it will all be over.
If I had a vote - which I don't - I think I would vote for Ken Macintosh because he at least sounds like a normal human being - who is capable engaging with and communicating with ordinary people - without resorting to political gobbledegook.
My second preference vote would be for Tom Harris - who is also a good communicator and the one most willing - seems to me anyway - to face up to and challenge the 'conservative' nature of the Labour party in Scotland.
To my mind Scotland has two 'conservative' parties - the Tories and Scottish Labour - the latter being completely dominated by vested interests and an old-fashioned trade union mindset.
My third preference would be for Johann Lamont - whom I don't know and I'm sure is a nice person - but she doesn't come across to me as a 'game changer' - someone with the style and substance to take on Alex Salmond and the SNP.
Most of the trade union support has gone Johann Lamont's way - as it did with Ed Miliband who won the UK Labour leadership because of the backing from the big public sector unions - Unite, Unison and GMB.
David Miliband actually won the majority of support from ordinary party members and Labour MPs - but he was pipped at the post by younger brother Ed - who won 'big' in the trade union section of Labour's barmy three-way electoral college.
So who knows - maybe the unions will win it again for Johann?
If so, it will be the worst possible result - and a sign that it's back to 'business as usual' - for the People's Party in Scotland.
In which case Alex Salmond and the SNP will be popping the champagne corks - and throwing wild parties.
