Jack hits back, but gently...

Chancellor Brown and Secretary of State Darling must be quaking in their boots. According to The Observer, the First Minister is taking off the gloves (here):

McConnell, who has always been extremely cautious about veering into matters reserved for Whitehall, said it was time to take a stronger stance on issues for which he does not have direct responsibility, but which have implications for Scotland. Devolution had bedded in enough, he said, to allow for more robust public discussion and debate between the two governments.
'There has always been a protocol between ministers in London and Edinburgh that they would keep their nose out of our business and we would keep our nose out of their business. I believe that was right in the first four or five years of devolution. But increasingly we have made representations, and increasingly we have made them in public. I think it is a role for the First Minister of Scotland to speak up, but to do it sparingly. I will increasingly not hold back.'

So there. The First Minister "will increasingly not hold back". An inspirational message. "We will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the landing grounds, we will increasingly not hold back.."