Jon Bright (London, OK): There is a wonderful Alan Cochrane opinion piece on today's "Wendy Commission" - the constitutional commission organised by the three Scottish unionist parties - in the Telegraph. He argues that these parties are doing Salmond's work for him:
There seems to be a head of steam behind this lemming-like drive for political suicide on the part of the Unionist parties. All they're doing is singing Alex's song.
Meanwhile, back at St Andrew's House, Mr Salmond will watch all of this "more powers" clamour with his smug grin even broader than normal.
Wendy Alexander, Annabel Goldie and Nicol Stephen are meeting their Westminster counterparts to discuss transfer of more powers to Holyrood. Both Alexander and Goldie are very keen, and we've already seen that Stephen (and Nick Clegg) want to push devolution to its limits. The question will be whether Brown and Cameron decide to rein in their Scottish counterparts or let them have their way. And, more importantly, whether an increased tranche of devolved powers for Scotland will 'save' the union - or put another nail in its coffin? It certainly seems to me, as Cochrane points out, that devolution has created an entropy which is going to be difficult to halt - and by extending powers in an ad hoc fashion, to certain institutions but not to all as and when the political climate demands it, I cannot see how this entropy can be halted.
