Leading politicians from Holyrood and Westminster will gather behind closed doors in London today for their first meeting to discuss the prospect of giving the Scottish Parliament more powers.
Wendy Alexander, Annabel Goldie and Nicol Stephen, the respective leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties at Holyrood, will privately meet their London counterparts in a room at the House of Commons to discuss how the proposed constitutional commission on devolution should be established and to underpin Unionist opposition to the independence policy of the Nationalists.
The issue of more powers for Holyrood is now seen by all of Scotland's Unionist parties as the main means by which they will prevent First Minister Alex Salmond getting a second term in office.
Ms Alexander whose brainchild the commission is, has called for a "more balanced home rule package" with Scotland possibly getting more powers on tax, welfare and transport.
Labour AMs and MPs elected from Welsh constituencies need to be progressive instead of separating themselves from the drive for the devolution of more powers followed by the rest of the Labour party. The All-Wales convention of which some of them are part, like the Scots, should be recommending the types of extra powers and numbers of members a Welsh Parliament will need.