Has Brown sent us along the road to independence?

Things fall apart; the centre does not hold. Last summer most of us in the McChattering classes thought that, once "capability" Gordon Brown entered Number 10, many Scots would start to lose their infatuation with nationalism and revert to their traditional allegiance to Labour. Hasn't happened. Indeed, the moral and political disintegration of Gordon Brown's leadership, which this column examined last week, may now be one of the factors that hastens the disintegration of the UK.