David William Donald Cameron: Dancing to a Scottish Tune?

The BBC's online biography of David Cameron informs us that "his biggest mention in the Eton school magazine came when he sprained his ankle dancing to bagpipes on a school trip to Rome".

He's still dancing to a Scottish jig.

Scotland in general – and the SNP in particular – is being love-bombed by a Prime Minister who seems to think he's the romantic lead in a Richard Curtis movie (Coalition, Actually perhaps?). This is not going to let up. It looks like Cameron will agree to free up the £180 million due to Scotland from the fossil fuel levy. I wouldn't be surprised if he also agreed to the Barnett consequentials from East London redevelopment work linked to the 2012 Olympics. A small price to pay to keep Scotland sweet and the SNP off-balance.

And it looks as though he's also going to commit to defering Scotland's share of the UK's £6bn public spending cuts until next year, by which time he will have rushed through the Calman Commission proposals, which are a priority.

Cameron has also been visiting Wales and plans to visit Northern Ireland, but in his clamour to treat the nations of the UK with respect he has unsurprisingly forgotten all about England. England has not been mentioned at all, apart from the commitment to hold a commission on the West Lothian Question, a policy that the Spectator's James Forsyth regards as a watering down of the Tories' previous policy.

The Tory manifesto commits a Conservative government to introducing ‘new rules so that legislation referring specifically to England, or to England and Wales, cannot be enacted without the consent of MPs representing constituencies of those countries.’ The coalition agreement has watered this commitment down significantly. The new government will merely ‘establish a commission to consider the ‘West Lothian question’.

Presumably it was amongst those policies jettisoned to 'bury the right'. We will never know.

UPDATE: From today's press briefing

Asked about the Calman Commission and the West Lothian question, the PMS said that people would have to wait on the precise timings of how these issues would be handled and how and when a commission would be established.