Gordon Brown is deluding himself about the SNP

Gordon Brown needs a hobby. Golf, perhaps, or jazzercise. Anything but meddling in the constitution. He means well but his answer is always the same: make things worse but in a way that sounds really clever to Westminster types. To a hammer everything is a nail and to Gordon Brown there isn’t a problem in all Creation that doesn’t call for a commission, a committee or a convention. 

His own commission into ‘the UK’s future’ has now reported and all I can say is the future ain’t what it used to be. A New Britain is a backwards-looking prospectus, its new constitutional settlement largely doubling down on the old settlement. That old settlement has been a stunning failure but can’t be acknowledged as such because Brown was partly responsible for it. 

As one of the architects of Scottish devolution, the only thing Brown should be consulted for is an apology.