So, "The legal age for buying cigarettes in Scotland is to rise from 16 to 18 next month, after MSPs unanimously backed a change in the law. The move attracted cross-party support. It was met with criticism from retailers who said that nothing had been done to publicise the change."
Now, Mr Smith has no real issue with the concept of the actual change in the law if that is what MSPs think is right, but does anyone, any democrat, really think that only formally agreeing such a major change in policy just two weeks before it is meant to be implemented is really good government? At least Westminster MPs had the good grace to agree the change before they headed off to their summer recess two months ago. Not the Scottish Parliament.
It's a bad day for government in Scotland that they got away with doing this. Mr Smith suspects that on any other issue they wouldn't have even tried, let alone been able to.
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