SNP cock-a-hoop - now for the cock-ups!

A winker wins!

Alex Salmond and his nationalist band of merry men and women are celebrating winning the Scottish Parliamentary Elections. Smiles all round, excited talk and chatter, interviews about independence. But winning an election and pushing away from England are not necessarily the same thing.

People seem to have voted for the SNP as they see Alex Salmond as a surefire bet for taking potshots at the Cameron/Clegg Coalition in London (as he would say). They could not see the Labour Party led by doing anything good for them. As I write this Iain Gray, Scottish Labour leader, is waffling on about how nice the people of East Lothian are. Soft-soaping charlatan. You just scraped home by 151 votes!

So Salmond & Co will wait a while and then try a referendum on separation or independence as it is called. It won't happen. The economics don't stack up and the Irish Republic will be a constant reminder that tiger economies can get their hides tanned, teeth capped and their hands tied behind their backs by the European Union.

Better to have a ferret in the UK sack that a sick wandering tiger on the loose causing the vets a headache.

SNP in court battle for TV exposure!

The Scottish National Party thinks it is being hard done by. Alex Salmond reckons he's got just as good a chance of going to see the Queen as the other three who have already partaken in the "Prime Ministerial Debates". Odd notion of equality, I'd say.

"Oh, Mr. Salmond, do you think you can form a government?". "Oh, yes, Your Majesty! I've cobbled together the best ragbag grouping I could get my hands on. None of them will defy my leadership. If I can become Prime Minister, I'll give up on this devolution business. I'll be your best Prime Minister yet. Is it a deal?".

"Well, I don't do deals, Mr.Salmond, but if you have, as you say.....you can command a majority of your peers.....well, we'll see. I will, of course, being speaking with Mr. Brown, Mr. Cameron and Mr. Clegg...all on Privy Council terms, you understand...."

All too much of a daydream, I think. Better stop now before I fantasise as much Salmond does!