Alex Salmond, Leader of the Scottish National Party and (elected) Prime Minister of Scotland offered to complete the United Kingdom cabinet meeting in Glasgow tomorrow and, together with his Scottish government ministers, inform the UK cabinet on the Scottish economy, the recession, and Scottish economic policy.
The Leader (unelected) of the UK Labour party and thus ex officio prime minister of the UK, Brown, rejected this eminently courteous and sensible gesture; replacing it with an offer to meet, over a mess of pottage, with sundry Scottish Labour party supporters. The mess of pottage is to be supervised by Brown's wife (she who is rude enough to not make her food fads known to her hosts before formal dinners and refuses to eat up, in front of everybody) and will consist in the kind of food that makes the jaws drop resignedly in horror and then go onto automatic pilot - smoked salmon, lamb, salad and blue cheeses supplied locally, which are just as good (as what, one wonders). We are spared the nightmare provenance of the wines.
You have to admire Alex Salmond's imperviousness to Gordon Brown's schoolboy rudeness, and juvenile food. Mr Salmond has something to say, and information to gather. Daniel Hannan has shown how a captive audience Brown can be made to listen, while his uncontrolled body language is the best to be hoped for - certainly any words that came from his lips would be of less value.
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This surely is excellent news? The more rudeness and discourtesy Brown shows to the very popular leader of the Scottish people, the less likely any of them are to vote Labour again.
Salmond seems to be much smarter than Brown.
Salmond left Royal Bank of Scotland; Brown bought it. O.R. may be right.
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