The last Scotsman I'll ever buy

(except on Fridays for the Recruitment pages, and maybe Thursdays for the Homes section...)

But this story is a bit of a shocker.

The headline has:

Outrage as Salmond brands Labour opponents 'anti-Scottish'

which is both misleading and false.

False because they've quoted 'anti-Scottish' as if that was the actual phrase used by Alex.

Not so, instead the SoS have seemingly intentionally mislead the reader with the headline as Alex's point is that Tony Blair, Jack McConnell and Gordon Brown have attacked Scotland to such a degree that their views can't sit squarely with a belief that Scotland is a confident, able country.

Hopefully any reader will be able to see the over-reaction from McConnell: He apparently demanded Salmond apologise to voters who were concerned about the costs of independence and the SNP's policies.

I don't see that forthcoming. Nor necessary.


So to take it from Alex's own words:

"they (Labour) are attacking Scotland and Scottish self-confidence, almost at times verging on to, you know, 'Its not the SNP that's a basket case, it's Scotland that's a basket case."

How true. You would think they would have learned from Tony Blair's poorly judged attack on George Mathewson.

SNP have as much won this election as Labour have lost it with a shockingly poor campaign. But as Alan Hansen would say, a win's a win. And, given the new YouGov poll, I'm just about to check how big that win will be, despite the media bias...