Paul Johnston

The man who has helped more than any other apart from Blair himself to weaken the 300 year-old United Kingdom through the botched policy of devolution is now very keen on 'Britishness'. He wants to distract attention from the fact that, as a Scottish MP, thanks to devolution, his writ scarcely runs in his own constituency but it does run here in England. The same goes for his Chancellor, Mr. Darling and any number of other ministers. We have a huge democratic deficit in this part of Britain, created by him and his friends and he hopes we won't notice.

He also promises that foreign criminals will be deported, yet his own government's policies have made that ever more difficult to achieve. His government has not lost control of our borders, it has deliberately thrown it away. And yet it appears from the opinion polls that sensible British people are prepared to vote him in for another term of years. Can this really be the case???