Virtually every - almost bar none - Englander I speak to believes that the FM is a Pol Pot-esque figure just waiting to take Scotland back to Year Zero.
And the closer the independence vote comes, the more rabid in their beliefs - that he is a tyrant - many become.
I'm now waiting for another verse of GStQ to be added - mach akin to the Marshall Wade version - that will berate, mock and ridicule Eck, before the buggers get put back into their collective box, this time (hopefully) for ever.
That said, I worked on a job yesterday with a snapper - called Iain - whose extended family is very much split on the issue.
For himself, an English-born man with a Scottish mother, he reckoned 'we' have only ourselves to blame if we don't make a fist of this.
Forget 1979, this is 2014 and could be our last chance to forge our own futures and identity.