Amid the dramas consuming British politics, allow me to make this observation: a country in which, for the moment anyway, the chief subject of political controversy is the possible introduction of charges for the provision of parking places at work is not a society on the brink of revolution, insurrection or independence.
There is something grubbily opportunistic and shameless about the manner in which the Scottish Conservatives, assisted by the Labour Party, have reacted to what is, in reality, a modest proposal likely to be acted upon by only a few councils across Scotland. The intemperance of the reaction borders on the hysterical. And yet it is revealing, too. This is a small country and, given Brexit and given the splits in the Labour Party,