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.