Unconvincing unionism is better than no unionism at all

The long awaited by election in Glenrothes takes place next Thursday. Scenting much needed victory Gordon Brown has visited the constituency twice this week. Alex Salmond, meanwhile, has campaigned eleven times already, in the run up to the poll.

Scots’ nationalism’s Il Duce is accustomed to this style of politics, treating every by election as if it is a plebiscite on his own popularity. Although I deplore Labour’s mismanagement of the Union, it is important that the nationalists do not win next week’s contest.

Labour may make inept and unconvincing unionists, but even if they appear sometimes to be dismantling the United Kingdom inadvertently, at least its dismantlement is not the party’s stated aim.

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