Letter: Querying reason for Gray's anger

SO KENNY Farquharson's intrepid investigation of Iain Gray's Labour Conference speech (he watched it on TV!) has led to his conclusion that Iain Gray now exhibits "cold anger and resolution" (Insight, 31 October).

However Mr Farquharson fails to inform readers exactly what events have been the cause of this newly acquired "anger and resolution". Was it "anger" at having been embroiled in illegal wars? Or perhaps "anger" at the obsessively high amounts of public cash being swallowed up by the Edinburgh Tramway scheme? Was his "resolution" aimed at the abolition of obscenely expensive nuclear weapons?

If Iain Gray is unable to answer in the affirmative to at least those three examples then he has not earned the right to quote from Jimmy Reid's rectorial address or to become a future leader anywhere.

Dorothy Macdonald, Oban