Let's talk funding

It's good to talk, but only on our terms. In an interview today with The Herald, David Cairns, the Scotland Office Minister, makes clear his view that the ongoing debate about Scotland's future should not encompass fiscal arrangements. His intervention is not at all helpful to Wendy Alexander, the beleaguered leader of the Labour Party in Scotland who just happens to be the leading light in the Scottish Constitutional Commission, also encompassing the Unionist Scottish Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.