Back to a Mickey Mouse Parliament?

As we all know, yesterday in the Chamber we were treated to a majority vote in favour of, amongst other things, "calls on the Scottish Government to concentrate its efforts on economic recovery and abandon its divisive plans for a Referendum Bill for the remainder of its term of office."

I found it somewhat ironic that opposition parties were complaining about an unconstructive Government in the midst of a distinctly negative "SNP Failures Debate" but the mild hypocrisy continues.

We have George Foulkes bringing forward yet another motion complaining about a perfectly reasonable book that Mike Russell wrote over 10 years ago and I have learned that next week there is a debate scheduled under the name of Karen Gillon for "The Commonwealth at 60".

Clearly no positives can be derived from such a debate for the Scottish public unless you are against independence.

The Scottish Parliament was derided as 'Mickey Mouse' time and again when it first got going. It has earned some respectability since then but I do worry that the political stunts and horridly cheap PQs, motions and debates are going to erode the value that Holyrood has.

Perhaps the MSPs should take the lead of KPMG and implement a 4-day working week for themselves, on 80% of their salary? Now there's a cost-cutting measure that would go down well with the public.