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'A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.' - Winston Churchill


There were many things which worried Dora about the referendum and all the accompanying hoo-hah. Her largest concern though, was whether Alex Salmond had piled on all the weight he had previously worked so hard to lose. Watching him on the television, yakking on about fiscal policies, she was quite diverted by the wobbling of his chins. Was he comfort eating? Had he turned to macaroni pies and Irn Bru when the polls favoured the No vote? Or did he celebrate a rise in Yes votes with a haggis supper and a deep fried Mars Bar?

The other chap, the one with the eyebrows and the appearance of a startled lemur, now he looked as though he was a calorie counter. Dora bet he knew his way round the Weight Watchers website......but did it make him any more trustworthy than tumshie Alex?

She sighed, realising that perhaps the future of the country should be based on something other than a politician's hip to waist ratio, but the political stuff....banking, NHS funding, EU membership.....was just too complicated. Let others worry about economics and currency - come the 18th, she would vote for the one with the best fitting suit.

She made a mental note to send Alex a wee email alerting him to the fact that he was letting himself go a bit. She'd tactfully suggest that nobody wanted the country to be run by a lard-arse, and if he wanted a bit more support before Thursday......he should really invest in some sort of man corset....