Planet Holyrood

First of all let me apologise. I/we got it wrong. There will be no second election this year. I still think there will be a Royal Wedding in November. I can’t give you the exact date as that would be treason, but it must be one helluva big pressie the Pope’s giving if he’s bringing it over himself in September.

The idea of an October re-election was based on the Tories winning with a small but only just workable majority, and Cameron going back to the country saying, ‘Gie’s a brekk. We need more seats to make it work.’

The signs are good. It’s a coalition. Not a Lib-Demolition. You may not agree with what they’re doing but there is ‘change’ and it’s being done in a very measured way, whilst the Labour Party goes off to lick its wounds. I’m quietly impressed. If only I could tell Nick Cameron and David Clegg apart. At least Ant and Dec always stand in the same order.

For the first time in 13 years Scotland finds itself under the rule of Conservative government in London. David Mundell, the Tory MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, is a lone Conservative voice in Scotland’s Westminster representation.

David Cameron, in his first week as Prime Minister, kept his promise to meet with the First Minister, and outlined his plans to win the respect of Scotland despite only having one MP here.

As the Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition gets down to the task of governing the country a new age begins for British politics. Old enmities have been swept aside in England – is it time to the same north of the border, and bury the hatchet between Scotland and the Tories?