According to Mr S, macb represented a lesson to the chancellor.

BBC: Alex Salmond's Plan Macb

Not just a Plan B - but a Plan MacB.

BBC: Alex Salmond's Plan Macb

Today, he was at it again, brandishing a bottle of a concoction called macb - a low-calorie, fruit-flavoured spring water which emanates from his former constituency of Banff and Buchan.

BBC: Alex Salmond's Plan Macb

The academics quote official figures that don't match up with the government's claims for its "Plan MacB", on construction in particular, and on the timing of the stimulus taking effect.

BBC: Business takes a tax hit

First Minister Alex Salmond said the figures reinforced the Scottish government's demand that the UK government deliver a "Plan MacB" approach immediately to ensure that recovery in Scotland was "not derailed by Westminster's wrong-headed economic policy".

BBC: Rise in Scottish jobless figures

Westminster will take the blame, and there will be calls for something called Plan MacB, the Scottish government's claim that it can go against the grain of public sector squeezing across Europe, loosen the purse strings, and get some growth back into the economy.

BBC: Budget challenge