Will the new Princess be an excuse for blanket pomp and Union Jack coverage?

The effect of a new Royal Baby may not have much effect on the General Election polls down in England but Scotland is a different place.

How many images of this man, 79 year-old Terry Hutt (apparently, no relation to Ed Balls or Jabba the Hutt):

will we see on our screens? He camped outside the hospital - the one that Kate would deliver her new baby Princess in - for 13 days! God knows why - it's not as if he was going to see the birth. Still, at least he picked the right hospital.

I doubt he'll be the only one to turn his politics into garish clothing. We're in a bank-holiday weekend too, so I expect London to go daft and mob Buckingham Palace to show their support of a real-life Mills & Boon romance. Expect the TV crews to spend all day asking people what the new baby means to them and footage of emotional Americans who flew in especially when they heard news. Honestly, have they got nothing better to do?

The Scottish press will love it. Excuse after excuse to wax lyrical about the Royal Family and the Union and what we'd be giving up if we voted SNP and loads of re-heated indyref material.

God knows, Labour need a new strategy and this might just be it. Expect headlines like:

Don't let the Royal Baby down - vote Labour to give our wee Princess the security she deserves!

and other such toss. It'll be a tactical-voter strategist's wet dream. Expect all Tories to be encourage to vote Labour with lots of pictures of babies wrapped in Union Jacks. They don't even have to be royal babies - any babies will do. Or just ones holding little Union Jack flags. Aww, how cute. 

Puke! Puke! Puke!

Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against the couple or the baby. What I'm against is how the Scottish media will exploit them for their own political ends. So let me leave you with something even cuter than two royal babies, courtesy of this site:

Yummy.