We’re starting to think that we could save ourselves an awful lot of trouble by only posting every other day. Obviously that’d reduce the workload in numerical terms, but also we could avoid the impossible task of having to keep track of Scottish Labour’s endless litany of U-turns, flip-flops and reverse ferrets on policy, which as far as we can make out appear to switch 180 degrees on alternating days.

Whichever one we picked we’d end up with positions that were at least consistent, and not have to try to make sense of which of two totally conflicting viewpoints the party was professing to hold according to whether the date was odd or even.

As it stands, we have to deal with this sort of thing.

We’re sure that alert readers will recall that Labour regularly railed against both tax breaks for big corporations and the council tax freeze during the referendum.

The former was usually done in the context of complaining that an independent Scotland under the SNP (no other government apparently being possible) would reduce Corporation Tax – which was a bad thing, even though Gordon Brown cut it twice in the last Labour government and promised more.

The latter was harder to follow, with Labour’s policy all over the place and seemingly delivered by throwing a dart at a wall covered in Post-It Notes with different positions on them whenever anyone asked them for a quote, but this from just over a year ago was fairly typical:

But this is Wednesday, so tax is bad again.

Corporations in the UK don’t come much bigger than Tesco, but a generous Mr Brown is proposing “rent and rates reductions” – in other words, local tax breaks – in order to keep a seemingly-unviable arm of a massive company operating and prevent small local shops from regaining a foothold.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Fife, the party is having even more trouble than usual getting its story straight over Council Tax, about which Labour has agonised for years:

(The piece in The Courier also notes that “a commission to examine a council tax replacement has been set up”, which we must admit was news to us. The last time Labour set up a commission to find a CT replacement it shrugged and gave up. But we did some digging and found out that the new one is in fact a new Scottish Government initiative from this month, and which the Tories are boycotting.)

So for today at least, Scottish Labour now BACKS tax breaks for big business and OPPOSES increasing Council Tax. Tune in tomorrow for the Thursday position, folks.