Stephen Flynn: “I did not think it was 'too much to ask' that islanders be able to go about their daily lives.”

It can’t have been an easy summer for the Secretary of State for Scotland losing his title as the most unpopular politician in Scottish Labour.

There is no shortcut. There is no political wheeze that can change the task ahead of us.

He knows – he understands – that for as long as the binds of their Union continue to burst at the seams, there is no possible way that any UK Prime Minister can seriously survive.

The public know that those with a real interest in Scotland’s future take the high road in the opposite direction.