Add together the mix of controlled taxes, assigned taxes and block grant in any of them and it turns out that Scotland will be funded to the Barnett formula level just the same as the original devolution act.

If Scotland wishes to raise money above and beyond that level the only way to do it is to increase personal taxation, just the same as the original devolution act. This is because Scotland has already reached the limits of permissible devolution from the Westminster Parliament.

I will be very interested to find out if the Conservatives’ effort will be any different.

As to whether or not the Tory leadership in London was signed up to the initiative or to what extent, if at all, it seemed to me that equivocation was writ large in Ms Davidson’s evasive and reticent answers to Brewer’s probing. After all, the power to devolve resides entirely at Westminster. Her evasiveness bodes ill for the outcome.

I think we in Wales and Scotland have every right to view Tory initiatives and pronouncements on devolution with extreme cynicism.

In my opinion the Scots should rightly beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

Aren’t the rest of the Tories always drawing lines in the sand… but to parody Autumn leaves…la mer efface sur le sable les lignes des Tories désespérés!

Don’t the Tories have a habit of lying about devolution?

Even if Ruth really means this and you guys come up with something, Cameron, or whoever followings him, Boris maybe, or Tessy will have to approve it.

Gordon spent quite a long time asking the woman about that, and got no where.

The Tories, under Thatcher, broke their promise of stronger devolution for Scotland post 1979 if the party got into power, and the history of the party both in and out of government since that time does not inspire confidence that they are any more likely to keep future promises, whether in a manifesto or not.

Jam tomorrow, indeed!