One of the great things about this site’s sky-high viewing figures is that on the rare occasions when we might be, for example, out having a walk in the park to get over the crushing disappointment of somehow losing yet another Scottish Cup semi-final, our ever-vigilant readers will remain alert.

Otherwise, we might have missed this.

That’s the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee on this afternoon’s Sunday Politics London during a discussion on Nick Clegg’s leadership of the Lib Dems, telling presenter Andrew Neil that even were Scotland to vote No in September’s independence referendum, it would be unthinkable for any Scot to ever again lead a UK political party, or hold any of the great offices of state.

(For the sake of brevity we’ve cut a chunk out of the middle where the woman in white talked about something else, and during which we suspect Neil got some urgent orders through his earpiece telling him to go back to Toynbee and “clarify” her position. We haven’t edited out anything relevant, and you can check the video for yourself when the clip goes live on iPlayer – it’s about 37 minutes in.)

When someone told us, we thought they must have misheard and meant in the event of a Yes vote, but no, they were right the first time. We had to rewind a couple of times and check, but it turned out that the proposition being made really was that Scottish members of parliament should become second-class citizens, disqualified by dint of devolution from having the same rights as anyone else in the United Kingdom.

Some food for thought there, eh, Scottish Labour MPs?