Lanarkshire Labour
As far as local Labour politics is concerned.
So much so that Adam was elected - after stepping down from Westminster - as the Chairman of the East Kilbride consituency of the Labour party.
The choice is theirs obviously - and his - but I can't see how it does anything to raise Labour's standing in this part of South Lanarkshire.
Because Labour's links with Libya and the former Gaddafi regime are about to come under even more scrutiny - with the publication of the Woolf Report.
Who knows what new revelations this will bring?
Let's wait and see - because high level contacts with the new Libyan government are also improving - as the country begins to find its feet after so many years of tyranny and repression.
I had some dealings with Adam Ingram a year or two ago - following a complaint by a member of his constituency office staff.
I can't say I was at impressed at the way the matter was handled - quite the opposite in fact.
I must see if I can find any of the letters and correspondence - which passed between us at the time.
Labour's Libyan Links (November 21st 2011)
The Sunday Times yesterday shed more light on Labour's close links with Libya - and the former Gaddafi regime - here's an extract of what the papaper said:
"The Sunday Times can reveal that Imran Khand, who gave the (Labour) party £57,500, helped to arrange a £1.5 million donation from Saif al-Islam Gaddafi to the London School of Economics (LSE) after he had completed his PhD there, according to a damning inquiry into the institution's links with Libya.
The inquiry by Lord Woolf, the retired lord chief justice, discovered multiple failings in the LSE's decision to accept the donation from Gaddafi.
The donation from the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation was brokered by Khand, as Scottish businessman. It led to rthe resignation of Sir Howard Davies as director of the LSE earlier this year.
Khand, a self-proclaimed philanthropist, made his fortune from Picsel Technologies, a software company. He was embroiled in controversy in 2007 when it emereged he had secretly given money to Labour through the organisation Muslim Friends of Labour.
Sir Howard) Davies was appointed Blair's envoy to Libya after the country was brought back into the the fold by the western world. THe LSE, an institution with strong links to the Labour party, also played a key role in the rehabilitation of the Gaddafi regime."
Now regular readers will remember that a Scottish MP - South Lanarkshire's Adam Ingram - the former MP for East Kilbride also developed close business links with Libya - after he stepped down as UK defence minister.
Links which earned Adam Ingram a lucrative living - even while he continued in his day job as a backbench Labour MP at Westminster.
With the capture of the Libyan dictator's favourite son - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi - the questions about Labour's links with Libya will continue - and may open up new lines of inquiry.
Which is how it should be - to my mind.
Because while bringing Libya back from international isolation was the right thing for Labour to do - exploiting these links commercially and for personal gain - was much more questionable and morally dubious.
