Election result 'most complex of a lifetime'

I don’t think there’s any doubt that this is turning into the most complicated political scenario of my lifetime.

The basic reality is all the Unionist politicians here – the Lib Dems, the Tories, and the Labour Party –said to the Scottish people in the Referendum: "Look, please don’t go. We value you, we listen to you, we don’t want you to go.”

The Scottish people look as if they’re going to come up with a pretty clear answer which is; "Right – we trust the SNP to represent us, we’ll send you a whole bunch of SNP MPs."

I don’t think it’s realistic for Labour to say they wouldn’t talk with them - they would – and I think their response to this could well be the first miss-step of their campaign to say this.

Would it be chaos? I’m not sure.There would certainly be a huge fight in getting the big fiscal numbers through, but the SNP will want to go back to Scotland and say that they stopped austerity: They will want to show that the Scottish people’s decision to invest in them has paid off.

Not necessarily chaos, but very complicated.

And of course, it would be very aggravating for the English, potentially, to see Nicola Sturgeon waltzing around Westminster talking about the great deals she is getting - and that is the potential long-term problem for Labour.