Here Comes TescoLaw!

So they did it. Holyrood has enacted TescoLaw, in the name of choice, the muppets.

The public must receive choice in legal services, OK. The Yellow Pages are full of solicitors' practices, the Scottish Legal Aid motif can be seen on every high street, but there is apparently still not enough choice.

We have made a tin god of choice, and one of these days it will turn round and bite us on the backside. In a country full of solicitors, choice seems more important than the independence of the legal profession. Fine. I want my choices as well. The Tartanissimo wants to head an independent Scotland, so he just chose to declare his Mickey Mouse (or should that be Scrooge McDuck?) minority Scottish Executive to be 'The Scottish Government', to alternating bursts of mirth and outrage from the Scottish public. I want the choice to be able to head my own Parliament. And I want it now.