The Labour Party Burns Night took place yesterday evening. Haggis, neeps and tatties to start, with roast beef as a main.

By all accounts, it was a late one. 

Perhaps a good description for their campaign to prevent Scottish independence.

While Johann Lamont has been confirmed to front the campaign, the Westminster Labour Party must surely play a role.

Former chancellor Alistair Darling, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy and shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander have all been touted as potential managers for the campaign south of the border.

All three have said that they will help out with the fight to prevent Scottish independence, but none have (thus far) expressed an interest in being the go-to-guy.

As one colleague put it: "We're being too slow in deciding who that first MP to make a call to should be."

Another MP suggested that former prime minister Gordon Brown must also have a role alongside Alistair Darling. "They are hugely respected on the economy [in Scotland]," they said.

Douglas Alexander recently wrote for The Independent: "Now is the time for progressives on both sides of the border to stand together in rejection of a politics of grudge and manufactured grievance."

So who will be the first to stand? Sitting down for Burns Night haggis won't answer that question.

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