THEY say that if you’re in danger of drowning, your entire life flashes before you. It felt a bit like that watching the Holyrood Sources event…
Neil Smith , Alex Salmond , Donald Dewar and Menzies Campbell in Edinburgh for the launch of the Yes campaign devolution countdown
Certainly, it’s difficult to envisage the kind of accommodation across party lines which Dewar and Jim Wallace signed up for. Or to imagine that their contemporary successors are cut from anything like the same durable, essentially decent cloth. McConnell repeated his suggestion that there should be one secretary of state for all the devolved nations, a notion which died a death the first time round and is unlikely to be resuscitated.
In a week which saw the first anniversary of Humza Yousaf’s arrival in Bute House, also present was his near nemesis Kate Forbes. Asked, inevitably, about the likelihood of her hat returning to the ring should a vacancy arise, she proved to have perfected the art of the non-denial denial. No party would now wish to disinvent Holyrood, and it’s an interesting thought that the generation who have grown up with it always being in existence is also the most enthusiastic about completing the job with
You only have to glance across the pond to see the desperate fate in store when consensus dies a political death.My own tribe is not remotely blameless either. Sometime when I see a byline in another publication, I don’t have to read on to guess the content pretty accurately. Sometimes pretty much word-for-word.
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