Did you watch the SNP singing and whistling Beethoven's Ode To Joy today? Did you think: That's terrible. These people are bringing the House of Commons into disrepute. How disrespectful. Or did you laugh, as I did? Not so much at the SNP but at the over-reaction of the Depute Speaker, a man used to the Speaker's authority being respected and unable to handle it when MPs do what their constituents elected them to do: give the bars of the cage a wee rattle and wait for a reaction.
This wasn't a rebellion. As far as I could see, there was a lull in the proceedings of the House and the SNP filled it. But clearly the Depute Speaker has had a bellyful of these people who don't play the game in the time-honoured respectful fashion.
I'm delighted to say the singing caught my attention so I watched the Brexit vote and every MP in Scotland managed to vote against Brexit - except, of course, for the solitary Tory.
The gap between what is actually happening and what the Tory government wants us to believe is happening is immense. It's not a coincidence that today a rumour started that Jeremy Corbyn was about to resign. That has the mark of Tory spin doctoring on it. Nor that the Labour Party is so lacking in political savvy that one of their big front bench fish chose today to resign. Nor that the big news according to the media in Scotland was not the possibility of a second referendum on Scottish independence but the menace of the marauding seagulls. All good distractions from the real issue.
Watching how disdainfully Theresa May treats any kind of opposition, still playing by the 1980s rules of the two-party state, I'm more and more convinced she and her cabinet colleagues are clueless. Every picture of Boris Johnson tells me this: Boris must go to bed every night thanking god that he's not the prime minister having to sort out the mess he - Boris - and his chums created during the EU referendum campaign.
The only part of today that cheered me up was that friends of mine, who voted to remain in the UK three years ago, have decided they'll take their chances on independence next time around. And they refuse to be drawn on the EU. That'll be a different issue.
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