It comes ahead of the publication of new research on Monday which suggests that women's access to power and representation inpoliticsintheUK is declining in relation to many other countries.
First Minister Alex Salmond told the BBC's ThePolitics Show that theUK Government seemed to be moving inthe direction of assigned revenues and this would be worse than the present system.
Politics has always played a big part in what the IMF says publicly about UK fiscal policy - and that has been particularly true inthe past three years.
The effect is too broad (why should theUK be picked up like flotsam an jetsam in US politics?) and easily circumvented by not typing inthe URL, but going with a DNS number.
But while partisan politics plays a role, the imbroglio over the Conservative Friends of Russia also reflects the deeper fact that intheUK, just like the US, the constituency in favor of better relations with Russia is small bordering on non-existent.