The sight of Mr McLeish squirming over the tawdry details of his expenses claims has both reduced the status of the Scottish Parliament in the eyes of many Scots to that of a corrupt local council and also lowered Edinburgh's standing at Westminster, where a battle looms over the balance of power between the two Parliaments.
So this is your chance to decide who represents you in Brussels and Strasbourg (Yes, they still shuttle between the two parliament buildings at regular intervals).
Power and authority may be slipping from Mr Blair to Gordon Brown, but both men are locked in a stand-off which it is in neither's interest to break.Throughout the last two parliaments, the relationship between the two men was reported as if it were some nightmarish zero-sum game.
It has two governments and two parliaments.
But as the negotiations proceeded to unravel, such an agreement seemed hard to imagine.In the weeks before the deadline, a rough consensus had emerged between two of the parliament's three main groups, the Shia Muslims and ethnic Kurds.
However, UN brokered talks failed in October and Libya remained split between two competing governments and parliaments as it has since last year when a newly elected assembly fled fighting in the capital Tripoli and set up in Tubruq in the east.
In 2003 British television presented "The Deal," a movie about the rivalry between two ambitious young members of Parliament named Brown and Blair.
Parliament is a balancing mechanism between two tyrannies.
Between two elections, there are usually anywhere from one to six sessions of parliament.
Given that a good 70% of the vote for parliament went to Islamists only a few months ago, the run-off could be between two of them.
Grasping for a figleaf of legitimacy, Libya Dawn reconstituted the pre-election GNC and appointed a new government.So today Libya is split between two parliaments both boycotted by their own oppositions and inquorate two governments, and two central-bank governors.
