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Annabel and co will always be a breed apart

"The only viable option for the Scottish Tories is to embrace independence. Become a true national party of the Christian centre-right, like their counterparts in small countries in Eastern Europe," concludes Iain Macwhirter. "But it's not going to happen in this lifetime."

Macwhirter's piece is based on a fraught week for the Conservative Party in Scotland.

It opens: "Well, that's the way it is sometimes in politics. If someone is a bit slow you get people shouting "come on you fat bastard, come on you ginger bastard, come on you Tory bastard". In Scotland, "Tory" is still a term of abuse for many.

"Unfortunately, David Cameron can't sack anyone for it. Though he must have been sorely tempted to dump Bill Walker - the senior Scots Tory "dinosaur" who criticised his sacking of his homeland security spokesman, Patrick Mercer, for the allegedly racist remarks paraphrased above.

"Cameron's latest foray into Jurassic Park was a disaster. He looked totally out of place among the ancients of the Scottish Tory party. His youthful presence only underlined how marginal Conservatism has become in Scotland."

Full story at the Sunday Herald.