Independence Debate
Some say that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, is something of a liability for the No or Better Together campaign in the Scottish independence debate - but I disagree with that assessment because I think the PM comes across as sensible and reasonable on matters to do with the referendum at least.
The most obvious example of the Prime Minister's calm reasonableness is that he quickly agree to hold a referendum after years of prevarication by the last Labour Government and Gordon Brown, in particular, who slapped down Labour's Scottish leader at the time, Wendy Alexander, who challenged to SNP to 'bring it on'.
Now I still believe that there should have been two questions on the ballot paper, a second question on the principle of 'Devo Max' and significantly increased powers for the Scottish Parliament, but at least now we are having a referendum - and that is better than having no vote at all, other than amongst MPs and MSPs of course.
So if you ask me, David Cameron has been a big improvement on Labour and Gordon Brown as far as allowing people their say - and he is also committed to a future referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union, if the UK continues to exist, of course, after the Scottish independence referendum on 18 September 2014.
But David Cameron has also said the right thing the other day regarding Scotland's continued membership of the European Union when he made clear that if the Scottish people do vote for independence in September 2014, then as PM he would not try to place obstacles in the way.
Now that's what you would expect from a good neighbour with whom we have a shared history and much in common - yet to listen to some of the hotheads in the Better Together campaign, they sound as if they would like nothing better than punish Scotland for voting the 'wrong way' by suggesting the Scots can't stay in Europe or can't keep using the pound.
Which I think is completely daft, so I take my hat off to the Prime Minister although I do believe he should agree to debate the subject with Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister - the voters deserve nothing less.
