Knickers to Scotland

Yesterday's papers reported that Michelle Mone - one of Scotland's most successful entrepreneurs - will take her multi-million pound lingerie empire south of the border - if the a majority of Scots vote for independence in a future referendum.

Now Michelle is no dumb blonde - but what a dumb thing to say.

The debate has hardly begun - yet Michelle's mind is already made up and if the rest of the country doesn't agree with her - then it's knickers to Scotland after all this time.

Apparently Michelle believes that an independent Scotland could not sustain itself - and that business taxes and the cost of living will both rise - if Scotland doesn't remain part of the UK.

Now Michelle strikes me as an establishment sort of person and lo and behold it turns out that Michelle was awarded an OBE in 2010 - for her contribution to business.

Which is fine by me - but it does let you know where she's coming from - at one level.

Michelle also had a pop at Holyrood MSP - claiming that they could not be trusted to make Scotland PLC a success.

"MSPs have never run a business in their life. Would you trust them to run Scotland as a business? No, is the   answer. Why would you trust these guys, all they do is fight in parliament with their big egos. I would never trust any of them. It's too much of a gamble."

Well all of that is very interesting - but if all of it or, indeed, any of it is accurate - then it applies equally to the Westminster Parliament as well.

And of the the two biggest scandals in the past five years - the current mess of the UK economy and MPs' expenses - it's the Westminster Parliament that's been in the driving seat.

All I would say is that if you're going to accuse politicians of being unable to run a whelk stall - then at least have some evidence to back up your arguments.

Otherwise it's all just pants - and hot air.