It's true that the people of the west end of Glasgow chose the SNP's Sandra White - who from the winners' rostrum hailed her own "victorious victory" - over my old friend Pauline McNeill. And that the city's voters prefered New Labour's Hanzallah Malik over me. Only when they come to know him will the full glory of that statement become clear.
But to the victors, the spoils. In a democracy, the public get the parliament they chose, or allowed to be chosen.
As I sat in my garden yesterday surrounded by five children with another on the way, I reflected not on what I'd lost, but what I have, and thanked the Lord for all of it. And all is not what it seemed in any case. The separatists won a haul of 69 MSPs but only half the people voted.
They severely underplayed their reason for being - the separation of Scotland from England. The Labour vote barely fell. The virtual annihilation of the yellow scourge of the Lib Dems led to the transfer en masse to the SNP.
Some people say I cooked my goose by aligning my own fortunes with Labour from whence I'd sprung. Maybe so. But I could no more have thrown in my lot with Alex Salmond than I could fly through the air. I've been inundated with calls from Labour people asking me to continue the fight.
So it's game on, with everything to play for. From now on, it's a question of in the United Kingdom, or out? Those who insist there is some "separate dimension" in which Salmond's hollow, social-democratic promises, which can't be afforded, are what should be judged, are about to discover that for our new pumped-up hubristic rulers there is only one thing on their minds, and that's partition. All the rest is just window-dressing.
The referendum is coming, any time from 2014, probably timed for the 700th anniversary of Bruce sending "the English homeward, tae think again".
That's the kind of shortbread tin historicism we're now in for.
As unemployment rises, house prices plummet, companies go bust and public services are axed, it will all be about "the English". It is the nationalism of fools. I will not be on the park, of course. But I will be from the sidelines, here as long as the editor wants me, on the radio as I am again every Friday from 10pm on Talksport and on any platform I can find.
Each week I will raise questions about separatism and here's just the first of them. What currency will the separate Scotland operate? The Euro? Will the Euro still exist now bankrupt Greece is considering leaving and the German taxpayers - and German bankers - contemplate a future carrying Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain on their backs? If the Euro exists, will it let another economically-failing peripheral state in to add to their problems? If not the Euro, will we use Sterling (in which case how "independent" will we be)? Will they even want us? There are many others. The cost of maintaining a Scottish army, navy and airforce. Scottish embassies around the world. A border.
Salmond boasted in the afterglow of Thursday's great victory that the SNP were now the party of the old trades union leader Tommy Brennan as well as Scots Monaco tax-exiles.
But no party can represent both ex-steelworkers and employers. People are divided not by lines on maps but by 100 other, more important things. Brian Souter's Stagecoach employees and passengers share more with bus drivers and travellers in Newcastle than they ever will with the anti-gay campaigner who funded Salmond's victory.