Tag-team Salmond bashing

Yesterday Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell welcomed the Calman Commission’s interim report and ridiculed the SNP’s rival ‘national conversation’ in a question to Secretary of State for Scotland, Jim Murphy.

"We share the Secretary of State’s welcome for the Calman commission. Does he note the contrast between the application and thoroughness of the interim Calman report and the so-called national conversation, which appears to be little more than a taxpayer-funded blog site for insomniac nationalists? Does he share my disappointment not only with the content but with the tone of the First Minister’s response to the interim report? Will he therefore use his best endeavours to persuade the First Minister that now is the time to show that he is man not a mouse—to use the First Minister’s own analogy—by abandoning the national conversation, which does not have the support of the Scottish Parliament, and by engaging, as many in the Scottish Government wish to do, in the Calman process?”


A quick collision of palms with Jim and the Labour minister replied,

“The hon. Gentleman is right to say that it is both surprising and disappointing that Scottish Government Ministers will not give evidence to the Calman commission. Of course, Scottish civil servants cannot give evidence to the Calman commission. He is absolutely right to say that if the Scottish Government continue to wish to see this process provide the high-quality outcome that we all want, that position should change over the next few months. The hon. Gentleman is right: there are a number of insomniac SNP supporters across Scotland at the moment. That is partly because their economic dream has turned into a nightmare and their ambitions of Scotland being just another Iceland are really a nightmare come true.”


Bi-partisanship at its most satisfying.

Comments

O'Neill said…
taxpayer-funded blog site for insomniac nationalists?

That's harsh!

I seem to remember a Unionist commenting there sometime in afternoon, late last spring;)
Anonymous said…
Hoi! Don't look at me in that tone of voice! I wouldn't touch the SNP's blog with the proverbial bargepole.
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