CAMERON BACKS FELLOW BRIT BROWN

"Don't judge Brown by his accent" says Cameron as unholy Labour/Tory alliance continues.

Tory leader David Cameron has insisted that voters should not judge Gordon Brown on his Scottishness at the next General Election. [He might as well have added, don't think about Scotland at all! - JOE]

He said the Chancellor would replace Tony Blair as Prime Minister and that electors should judge the Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath MP on what he says rather his accent. [Judging by what he says he's a plonker who supports the English football team, he's desperate for power and would be no better than Tony Blair - JOE]

Speaking on BBC1's The Politics Show, he said: "I think people should, will judge politicians on what they say, what they do. I think the British public are pretty good at working out who does what, who says what. That's what they should do with Gordon Brown and that's what they should do with me."

Mr Cameron, who is to make a speech in Edinburgh, said he would prove to people that the Tory Party had changed for good.

"This party is in the centre ground, that's where it's going to stay," he said. "The old policies, the old approach are not coming back and people need to know that change is for good. I think people see a politician changing his party and they want proof. They want to see it's for real and I'm going to prove it's for real."

The Tory leader said London-based politicians often made the mistake of coming north of the border and boring Scots with speeches about "institutional architecture" such as devolution or the Barnett formula, when voters cared much more about the state of their public services.

Mr Cameron said he would show Scots that he led a party which shared all of their concerns.

He continued: "And when they see that I think we've got a real opportunity because you've got the big failure of Labour and the Liberal Democrats and the independence option, which is the 'stop the world, I want to get off', which I don't think most people in Scotland want."

[Funny but he sounds just like every other UK Conservative politician and he himself was slagging Brown off a few weeks ago for saying his favourite goal was Gazza's . When push comes to shove though, he supports his fellow Brit. What a hypocrite. JOE]

Professor John Curtice, of Strathclyde University, told the BBC1 show Mr Cameron had equivocated over the matter.

He said: "If you're going to argue that you're now committed to Scotland and the Scottish Parliament, to equivocate on the number of MSPs doesn't necessarily indicate a clear sensitivity towards Scottishness and demonstrate that the Scottish Conservative Party is committed to devolution."