One day David Cameron may well regret the remarks he made yesterday, at his regular press conference in London, regarding Alex Salmond.
He insisted the only options for voters in any part of the UK was between a Labour or Conservative government.
When he was asked about Mr Salmond's recent comments he stated: "The reason he is making these noises is that he knows that he is actually quite irrelevant in the UK general election.
"People in Scotland will be going to the polls to vote for a British Government and there are two potential outcomes: Gordon Brown and Labour continuing in office or the Conservatives bringing the change the UK needs to see.
"The one outcome there can't be in a British general election is an SNP government.
"Alex Salmond isn't even standing in this election, so he knows he is quite irrelevant in this election.
"He is battling for relevance and trying to say that somehow he is going to have a pivotal role when it is not an election that even involves him. That is why he is saying what he is saying.
"What we will be doing is putting across to Scottish people all the arguments why the British government, the UK government, needs to change direction when this election is held."
Mr Cameron is wrong. Alex Salmond leads the party of government in Scotland and it is also represented in the UK government. Is he suggesting that it is only English MPs who will have influence in the general election?
SNP Tactical Voting writes: More importantly however, it is becoming increasingly clear that Cameron is going to make a right dog's breakfast of trying to find that thin line where he can get away with treating the SNP with 'respect' on one hand and bashing them as 'irrelevant' on the other.
He's not going to make a dog's breakfast, he's made one. He doesn't understand the Scots pysche and has made no serious attempt to do so. A few months ago he was washing his hands of the Calman Report for the foreseeable future. Then he was proclaiming he would work with Alex Salmond and also treat us North Britons to a personal visit now and again and yet, in his desperation to keep parts of England happy, he now implies Scotland doesn't matter.
Come the General Election Mr Cameron may well find his party is, once more, an irrelevance in Scotland and I won't have an ounce of sympathy for him.
For those readers wishing to know the results of Scottish labour's massive reshuffle, Calum Cashley has recorded it here and here at his place. Do have a read. It's pure entertainment (as well as being informative).
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I see Wendy Alexander is off Mr Gray's new Christmas card list as well. Malcolm Chisholm seems none too popular either. Are they making way for redundant Labour MPs to sneak into Holyrood by the list system in 2011?
Mr Gray's new line-up of GOATs (Gray's Other Alternative Tossers)are not likely to improve matters but serve to illustrate the tragic lack of talent in the Labour stable.
SR, why the surprise - this is the Boy Dave we are talking about here......
Though to be fair it is nowhere near as bad as Gordon today, in PMQs, "This morning, from Brussels, we got permission......"!!
English MP's don't really have relevance in England or for the UK, they vote almost monotonously on party lines.
The best for both countries I'm beginning to think is an amicable break up followed by the dissolution of party politics towards the national interests rather than the political dogma driving the current setup.
What is truly irrelevant to Scotland is Westminster. Can someone remind me why Scotland needs MP's? What is it they do down there - apart from fiddling expenses?
Oh Clarinda, I can always rely on you to put a smile on my face! GOATS indeed - love it. :)
We know that there is a strong possibility that Gray is doing exactly that. He's nothing to lose anyway as he's out of the picture now.
Jings, WfW, I missed that bit and I watched it too! Will have to replay it I think and hope someone puts that on Youtube.
QM, that's the modern politician for you. Job security is more important that electorate.
It would be interesting to hear how your plan would work.
Pass scunnert.
So you see the SNP forming the next government? No I don't either.
Dear Mr Cameron,
In my constituency the SNP usually wins, Labour comes a pretty close second. Somewhere so far down it is difficult to see without my specs, come the Tories, the Liberals, and the Greens, with not much to chose between them.
In my opinion, that makes the Tories pretty irrelevant to me and the SNP provides my member of parliament, my only contact with the machinery of government which takes place in another country and about 500 miles away. That makes the SNP very important to me.
I just thought you might like to know that.
Yours sincerely
Tristan Price-Williams.
WV: tackles
Tom, indeed I do see the SNP forming the next government - in my country.
Westminster isn't a government, it is now a branch of the EU which calls the shots.
Here in Scotland we have a government which looks after domestic affairs. That's what matters to me.
They are irelevant here Tris and I think that's part of the reason this false outrage erupted.
SR,
I hope I don't meet this fool through the course of my duties. The gloves are off, he is all mouth and no substance and continually throwing out soundbites to sound popular.
646 at Westmidden - none of them other than the SNP have Scotland's interests at heart, time for this Union to be over.
Then we can build something worthy of who we are, where we've come from and where we wish to go.
Feckin Tory Boys and Osbourne is naive!
CD
Can't help but agree with everything you say CD. Poor Osborne, he looks like he's still to grow up. I hope that's not being unkind.
"Then we can build something worthy of who we are, where we've come from and where we wish to go."
CD. True. Most of what we have at the moment is what England aspires too, not unreasonably as there are 10 times as many of them as of us. But I have a feeling that an independent Scotland would feel a great deal different.
It was really well put though. Thanks for that.
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