Pictured below are Ruth Davidson and her 13-strong* cohort of Scottish Tory MPs.

When they were elected earlier this month, the group rushed to tell anyone who’d listen that they were ready and willing to “defy” the UK leadership and act (ironically) as an independent party, standing up bravely for the people of Scotland.

They would be able to do so, they said, from a position of “unprecedented influence”, because without the Scottish Tory group Theresa May cannot get a majority to pass any legislation, even with the support of the DUP. It could be reasonably argued, then, that for that reason Ruth Davidson’s 13 are at least in theory the most powerful group of Scottish MPs in Westminster history.

So what concessions have they extracted with all that power?

Today sees the key debate and vote on the Queen’s Speech. Theresa May needs the votes of both the “independent”, “defiant” Scottish Tories and the DUP to win. And here’s what the respective groups have achieved from that negotiating position:

DUP: £2bn over two years, and very likely more to come

SCOTTISH TORIES: £0.00

Top defiance and influence there.

Readers may like to speculate on whether the spectacular absence of a single extra penny for Scotland – even after David Mundell bullishly and very explicitly promised lots more money just four days ago – is attributable to:

(a) the Scottish Tories simply being pathetic, snivelling lapdogs about as likely to actually stand up to the PM as set fire to their own testicles,

(b) their never actually intending to secure any money for Scotland at any point in the next five years at all, because that would in practice be money for the SNP to spend, or

(c) both.

As for us, all we’re saying is, don’t hold your breath for the Scottish Tory revolution.

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*Alert readers will have noted that there are in fact 15 people in the picture. For some reason MSP Rachel Hamilton also gets in – we can only assume it’s in a desperate attempt to make the whole thing look like a bit less of a sausage-fest.