Scottish Questions: Getting Beyond the West Bromwich Question

Brownie Cruddasite Tom Watson MP points to his and Douglas Alexander's wit and wisdom. Scrolling down I was rewarded with this:

David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale, Conservative)
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Perhaps the Secretary of State will also agree with me that the vast majority of people who voted for the Scottish National party did so not in an attempt to break up the Union but as an expression of dissatisfaction with the Labour and Liberal Democrat-led Scottish Executive. Does he accept, too, that Labour's clunking fist approach to promoting, or rather brow-beating, Scots into supporting the Union failed and will he encourage the Chancellor and others to support my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) in his positive promotion of the Union?

Douglas Alexander (Secretary of State, Department for Transport)
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I say this with the greatest of respect: I have never regarded the views of the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron), or indeed those of the hon. Gentleman, as my lodestar in terms either of defending the Union or winning popular votes in Scotland. If the hon. Gentleman has advice to offer parties in Scotland, perhaps he should write another memo to his colleagues in the Scottish Parliament.

Mundell is of course the Tory Muppet who earns 27 mentions over at Iain Dale's ... mostly for saying Scottish Tories are crapulent.