Reaping the whirwind

The tweet from Louise Mensch is in itself instructive of course. But it just reflects the view that we already know is widely held across England: we are ungrateful whingers who are over-subsidised by the rest of the UK. That's not an accurate understanding of the economic reality but as I've said before I don't blame the voters in the rest of the UK for believing it when no-one tells them otherwise (apart from honourable exceptions like, bizarrely, Richard Madeley).

What's important is how that view will inform the reactions of English MPs, if there's a No vote, when they are called upon to give us the "extra" "powers" we've been offered by Johann Lamont and Ruth Davidson. Will Labour, Tory, UKIP candidates, fighting over seats in a close election campaign, feel that it's only fair to honour that pledge? That their hands are tied? In the face of a vengeful electorate? Will they hell as like. They will cleary, obviously, without doubt, listen to the howls from their constituents and tell us, in unambiguous terms, that we must be joking and that, if we are not, we can bugger off.

The only surprising thing for me is that Better Together didn't see all this for themselves. Well, mystery solved. They do. They just don't care.