So should the anti -handguns Snowdrop lobby mount an election challenge in April as it has threatened to do, he could be in trouble.
But so far he has not put a foot wrong, complying with Lord Cullen's recommendations to the letter and more.
Indeed he has gone a stage further promising more restrictive regulations that have dismayed the firearms and gunclubs fraternity.
That Lord Cullen's report grabbed the headlines for much of the week allowed the "sleaze politics" issue temporary respite.
Thus it seemed curiously ill-timed for Mr Forsyth to attack the Young Scottish Nationalists and accuse them of "gutter politics" at a time adult mature Tories appear knee-deep in "sleaze politics." True the youthful political novices made an apparent anti-English gaffe for which they would have been condemned by most of the party but it hardly merited the attention of the Scottish Secretary.
It came across as the pot calling the kettle black, to use the old saying.
Which reminds me of another particularly appropriate old saying by one of the great Tories - Winston Churchill. It was:"the only guide to a man is his conscience."
That he said it 56 years ago could be seen as providing today's troubled Tories with the welcome excuse: "times have changed", but Churchill appeared to have anticipated a latter-day demand for such an excuse. Because, at the time he also told his fellow parliamentarians: "In one phase, men seem to have been right , in another they seem to have been wrong. Then again, a few years later, when the perspective of time has lengthened, all stand in a different setting."
He referred to this as another scale of values and advised that the only shield to a man's memory was the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
And his added warning is as apt today as ever:"It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour."
Westminster politics no longer seems to concern itself with honour or honesty and doubtless those parliamentarians who paid lip service to the great Tory rallying call for the return to old fashioned values when it was fashionable to do so must hope the public's memory is conveniently short.
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