"You know that she's a vampire, yet you still offer her your throat"

First Minister's Questions again today and, by my reckoning, Ms Sturgeon again made Mr McConnell look under-prepared. She wanted to know the estimated cost of policing the G8 Summit - which should not have been too difficult as the Executive had already declared that it had shared its estimate of the cost with the UK Treasury. Mr McConnell ducked and dived, leaving the unfortunate impression that he was not prepared to reveal the estimate because it was greater than the £20 million which Treasury had agreed to fund. Ms Sturgeon has found the knack of asking relatively short straightforward questions which force Mr McConnell into political bluster - on this occasion he ended up claiming that the SNP did not welcome bringing the G8 Summit to Scotland. But, on the day that the Courier suggested that the cost of policing the summit might exceed £100 million, Ms Sturgeon's questions were legitimate enquiries and should have been foreseen. It seemed obvious that the First Minister did not have a prepared line about the estimated costs.