Meanwhile, Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie told a fringe meeting she would fight any UK General Election north of the Border on the same three themes as May's Holyrood contest.
You’d hope (as the wing of the party which earlier on this year briefly considered renaming itself the "Scottish Unionist party") there’d be at least some mention of fighting the pernicious effects of devolution...
They are a £1 billion blitz on drugs and crime, the biggest boost for home ownership in Scotland since the right to buy, and a big cut in council tax for pensioners.
...you’d, however, hope in vain.
Instead Annabel, preempting tomorrow’s expected Tory answer to the "West Lothian Question", said:
it was wrong for Scottish MPs to have a say on English domestic matters when English MPs had no say on Scottish domestic issues.
She added: "I think that's provocative, I think it's de-stabilising and it has to be addressed because, if it's not addressed, I think that will fester, I fear that will eat away and corrode the very basis of the mutual respect and the sense of an aggregate benefit which we all feel being part of the United Kingdom.".
All true, but in order to build up that "sense of mutual respect and sense of aggregate benefit", you should be attacking harder the core of the problem, devolution and the SNP's Little Scotlander mentality, not trying to further split the basis of our parliamentary system and as a consequence, the Union itself.
*Anyone get the music reference?
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