In truth, however, Labour's problem is that it has to come up with something the SNP, as yet, doesn't have to come up with – a workable alternative to tax and spend.
"Microsoft and Mozilla spend years figuring out a workable solution, then a short time later, it's all for not.
They have a plan, it's a workable plan, and now they have to cut spending and put policies into place that will attract investment.
Listening to an investment counsellor recently, I heard him say that the days of the "borrow to spend" mentality are no longer the workable option they had become.
Better to be patient and finish up with workable legislation rather than rush matters and then spend years suffering the consequences of a system that doesn't work.
Spend 30 minutes trying to find a workable stream, only to tune in just in time to watch your side concede to Peter Crouch for the 20th season in a row, and then let me hear you call it the "Beautiful Game".
Nor can this obsessive refusal to spend be translated into any sort of a workable social system, as Weber sometimes seems to hope.
We have spent enough time appreciating the problem, let's find workable solutions and provide ALL our talented students with the opportunities they and we deserve to live up to our collective potential.
Mr. Ruddy, caught up in the "Godfather" saga, eventually sold the rights to the actor Patrick O'Neal, who was passionate about the book but not really a writer and spent the rest of his life trying to finish a workable screenplay.
