Some, although probably not many, may recall I wrote to Karen Gillon some time ago in regard to Scottish Independence and a referendum for the issue.  I was, and am, a bit miffed that the only response I got from her was a request for my address and no actual response to my query … hell, if you’re going to ask people where they live the least you could do was respond to the substance of their correspondence.

Anyway, I now know where she stands on the issue, thanks to The Scotsman following a quick google after Salmond name-checked during First Minister’s Questions.  It turns out that:

Only one Labour MSP, Karen Gillon, has come out against a referendum, but she insists she is “loyal to her leader”.

She also opposed a referendum on devolution.

So there you have it, Karen Gillon is the only Labour MSP towing the party line!

The rift between Brown and Alexander became painfully obvious yesterday during Prime Minister’s Questions when Brown laboriously avoided either endorsing Alexander’s position or answering David Cameron’s questions … it was all too obvious and were it not such a serious issue it would be laughable.

As I alluded to previously I caught some of FMQ’s earlier today, well, enough to hear Ms Alexander’s attempts to bring Salmond to task, of course she had failed before she began as Salmond is able to quote from the SNP manifesto commitment to hold a referendum in 2010 – both Alexander and Brown have suggested that the SNP are failing to honour a manifesto commitment by not immediately holding a referendum.  Obviously, it’s a tactic that has been developed as it’s such a recurring theme, ‘the SNP aren’t meeting manifesto commitment A, b or C’, the problem is though the SNP are delivering … unlike Labour.

If you listen to the clip, provided in the article linked to in the previous paragraph, you’ll hear Alexander telling us that it is Labour who want to give the people of Scotland a chance to have their say, yet it has been Labour policy since before the May 07 election NOT to have a referendum on independence and it wasn’t until Sunday when Alexander burst out with her now infamous “bring it on” statement that that policy was reversed.

I don’t think anyone is being fooled by Labour’s new line on the issue and everything Ms Alexander now says must be closely examined for contradiction and misinformation, the Labour party aren’t interested in the people of this country, be that the UK or any of it’s constituent parts, they’re only interested in the power that this country can provide them with.