Cameron up for a one-to-one – just not with Ed

Now we know why David Cameron won’t debate one-to-one with Ed Miliband: because he does not meet the necessary criterion of being the other viable candidate for Prime Minister. Oh no, according to Dave at PMQs today, that mantle belongs to er…Alex Salmond. Confused?

Apparently Labour has given up on the prospect of winning a majority and therefore it is Alex Salmond who is the alternative to Mr. Cameron. Yes, that vile loathsome Scot who is hell bent on bringing about the end of the world – sorry the union.

Grant Schapps, in his usual slippery-cum-village idiot guise, ventured that it would be Alex Salmond calling the shots from within the cabinet.

Well there we have it. Never mind that Alex Salmond is not even an MP yet; nor that Nicola Sturgeon is the leader of the SNP; nor even that the SNP could not possibly muster a 10% contingent in the commons. What is important is that there is a folk devil to frighten middle England into voting Tory. Lyton Crosby has decided that Salmond fits the bill. The collateral damage of pernicious animosity will, I suspect, persist long after Crosby is a footnote of electoral history.

Cynical Cameron propels the SNP juggernaut

First past the post is a rotten electoral system; on the 7^th of May voters in Scotland have an opportunity to unleash it as a broadside against a rotten establishment. The cosy club of the ruling elite at Westminster could face an insurrection unprecedented in modern times. For this reason alone - even if like me, you are not a nationalist - a vote for the SNP constitutes real power to effect change.

David Cameron’s farcical and pathetic nodding dog obedience to Lynton Crosby (Australian election guru) is just the latest episode in an unedifying torrent of arrogant contempt for the electorate. To listen to his sanctimonious admonition of Gordon Brown five years ago for stalling on TV debates only to perform a brazen volte-face has plunged political class cynicism to new depths.

If you don’t want a Labour branch office MP towing the party line to maintain the establishment dogma then there is a real chance to rock the boat. A powerful voice through a nexus of anti-establishment MPs at Westminster would provide the erstwhile unthinkable prospect of a serious debate on nuclear weapons to name one example. To vote SNP in May would not trigger another referendum but it would herald a seismic shift in the corridors of power that seems so detached from most of us.