Labour in denial - Alex in clover

It must be the biggest and longest huff since Ted Heath refused to speak to Margaret Thatcher all those years ago. Alex Salmond has been running Scotland for almost a month and still the British prime minister and his successor-to-be refuse to speak to him.

This is becoming truly hilarious. Blair, now in the process of embracing Gadaffi in Libya and selling him arms (!) rushes to Northern Ireland to laud three individuals who are not fit to lick Alex Salmond’s boots. Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams spent decades spreading murder and blood-soaked misery across Ireland and yet Blair praises them for accepting the people’s democratic will (as if they had a choice given the war on terror these days across the pond). 

Blair does the same for Ian Paisley, a man seen by normal people as a fundamentalist religious crackpot with a long history of oppressing Ulster’s minority. Brown finds time to congratulate Rhodri Morgan as the (rather temporary) first minister of Wales and Blair launches into his best French to welcome the Thatcherite new president of France.

But still Alex Salmond gets the cold shoulder. This for the leader of a party with an unblemished record of peaceful and democratic campaigning.  Not that Alex Salmond is worried. In fact the more Brown and Blair behave like spoiled children, the more Salmond loves it and the more the Scottish public warms to the new first minister of Scotland.