Friday, 30 January 2009

A Proper Charlie

I did manage to catch the last five minutes of Question Time from Fort William. Whom had Labour put up? Er, Charlie Falconer. A Scot, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the owner of a Highland hideaway. But a lifelong practising member of the English Bar, who must therefore have lived in England all his working life. And who has, in fact, done precisely that.

Only Nicola Sturgeon would not have been on a London panel. And she probably thought that she as visiting a foreign country in the West Highlands at least as surely as if she had been visiting the North West of England.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous30 January 2009 at 18:33

    LOL re: Sturgeon.

    As a Highlander I was shocked to come to Glasgow and see how sectarian it was compared to the the Highlands. There are lots of Catholics in the Highlands as you know. But Glasgow is like Liverpool. As you say like NW England not NW Scotland.

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  2. David Lindsay30 January 2009 at 18:38

    By no means only in that way, of course, certainly if you mean the Liverpool-Manchester belt. Whereas the Highlands are like Cumbria.

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  3. Martin31 January 2009 at 06:10

    David,

    I didn't watch the show - Falconer?He was the best they could do?

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  4. David Lindsay31 January 2009 at 12:34

    Apparently so.

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