"Well Allan, I'm sure that will cheer up those in England who blame the Scottish Labour MP's for a lot of the malaise that now affects Britain due to New Labour's idiotic 'fiddling round the edges'"

Aye politicians in general haven't exactly distinguihsed themselves of late. Scots have been prominent in the Labour Party so it is easy for some to blame the Scots - but of course the vast majority of MPs in both the Labour Party and Parliament as a whole are English. Blair didn't just hide his Scottishness he just about disowned it. Though he is one of these people who could be what he wanted as he was a mix-max. His mother was Irish; his father was raised in Scotland by his adoptive parents but was born English; Blair himself was born in Scotland but only lived there for a few short yers in his childhood. He later went to boarding school in Edinburgh but apart from his short spells in Scotland and Oz during pre-school years and he's lived his entire life in England. Mind you another one who hides the Scottish part of his background even more than Blair is David Cameron!