Leading Questions

Where now for Alex Salmond (and could the SNP possibly survive without him, as it will have to do eventually)?

Why is Jim Sillars suddenly all over the place?

What of David Cameron, who has presupposed large SNP gains, thus delivering a hung Parliament with the Tories as the largest party, so that the cosy Holyrood deal can be done in reverse?

What of Tommy Sheridan, his very name on the ballot paper, and fully 97 votes (behind UKIP, the Senior Citizens' Unity Party, everyone) cast for the candidate thus designated, right there in the last constituency ever to return a Communist MP?

And what of the "viewers in Scotland", for whom Glenrothes this, Glenrothes that, Glenrothes the other, would have been the "except" if there had been the entirely separate Scottish news bulletins advocated by the SNP? "Barack Obama, except for viewers in Scotland."

But there is now no question whatever over one Leader.

Gordon Brown.