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Three things more interesting than the Tory leadership election...

       We can't help feeling we should be exercised over the Scottish Tory election, but frankly, the party seems so hell bent on destroying itself one way or another that it’s impossible for even political nerds like us to maintain much enthusiasm for the details.
 
      The most interesting press contribution we’ve seen so far came fromKenny Farquharson in last week’s Scotland on Sunday; if Murdo Fraser wins, he thinks, and presumably, all goes according to plan, the formation of a new centre right party believing in devo-max will galvanise those of all parties who support this putative second option on the referendum ballot.

You pay your money...

    Today’s news that an Ipsos Mori poll has thrown Alex Salmond and the SNP a life-line in the electoral stakes has elicited guarded responses from the commentariat –muted whoops of joy from some, don’t-count-your-chickens doom and gloom from others.
 
    Amongst the former wasAlex Massie in the Spectator’s blog-
 
 “…frankly, the idea of Iain Gray becoming First Minister is too depressing to contemplate before the idea is thrust upon us by cruel reality and dastardly necessity.

The worms turn...

   Paisley MP,Brown acolyte, and now Foreign Secretary, Douglas Alexanderadmitted some time ago that“Labour didn’t always get it right”on the economy.  
 
   Now his new leaderEd Milibandhas also sought to distance himself from the great unlamented Gordon by half-apologising for Labour’s failure to regulate the banks.
 
    If either of them had any sense of contrition, they would have more accurately said,
 
    “Labour didn’t get it right on the economy