And so the fallout begins.

One of the most entertaining airtime moments on Radio Four this evening.

On the "Extended News Coverage" on Radio Four tonight the SNP were allowed to complain bitterly that Brown had rejected all possibility of a Progressive Coalition Government and rushed to resign without ever contacting the Scottish Nationalists to see if a deal would be done.

Well, nice try.

Except that as this article in the Daily Record points out, SNP leader Alex Salmand refused point blank to enter into any formal agreement with Labour, agreeing only to support Labour on an issue-by-issue basis as long as a river of money was kept pouring out of Westminster into Edinburgh.

So what would you do if your only hope of power was a man pledged to hold you to ransom and drop you in it at the first sign of the bribes drying up?

Exactly. Tell him to bunk off.

Good God. It seems Gordon Brown had some principles after all.