Glasgow East by-election debate on Sunday

The UK’s becoming more and more American. Now abortion is a big issue in a by-election? I watched the debate on Scotland’s Politics Show yesterday — another piece of evidence of the Americanisation of UK politics is the SNP candidate (John Mason) kept saying how popular Alex Salmond is, which, to me, indicates that he thinks Alex Salmond is more likely to win the election for John Mason than John Mason.

• 19 Jul 2008