The word from Scotland

Brown's PMQs performance, claiming Wendy Alexander in Scotland does not want an independence referendum, has baffled Scottish Labour. I call my old contacts and am told a shocking, but not surprising story. 

Wendy Alexander asked Brown a while ago to approve her plan to call for an early independence referendum. Like Madame Tussauds, she didn't get a reply. He dithered and he delayed. She figured McBroon didn't care any more (sob!) and went ahead regardless. Just like that Miliband speech a while ago, Brown only wakes up to its significance when he reads it in the papers. Then tries to stuff the genie back in the bottle today, claiming she didn't say what she unfortunately said to the world. 

Even Labour in Scotland are briefing against him, saying "have you ever known Gordon to make a decision like this quickly". So the knives are out for him in Westminster and the dirks are out in Scotland - all over an utterly avoidable thing like this. And they say Boris is a joke.