WITH the finish in sight and the tension thick enough to slice, who on earth could snooze now in the referendum?
Only SNP campaign supremo Angus Robertson, the diary can reveal. The drowsy Moray MP has taken to chain-chomping Haribo sweets to stay awake after lunch. "I need the sugar rush," he confesses. Even the birth of a nation has its longueurs, it seems.
ANGUS also reports striking anecdote gold while escorting a German newspaper reporter on a recent canvas. One North East door was opened by - wait for it - a Mr David Cameron. "Aye, I'm the original," he grinned, "and I'm voting Yes."
SCOTTISH Secretary Alistair Carmichael is planning a fund-raising DJ set at next month's LibDem conference in Glasgow, we hear. The Orkney and Shetland MP will apparently 'go large' on 80s disco cheese, including Duran Duran, Wham and Go West. One of the latter's big hits was Kings of Wishful Thinking. Others may have forgotten it, but it's practically the LibDem anthem these days.
IT'S not all argy-bargy on the streets during the referendum, thank goodness. Sometimes it's on the telly too. On the BBC's Scotland 2014 the other night, Glasgow Labour MP Ian Davidson set about fellow pensioner Jim Sillars, with the veteran Yesser duly giving as good as he got. According to Davidson, the clash has been dubbed the campaign version of 'Still Game'.
LONDON-BASED pro-Union outfit Let's Stay Together seem less than clued up on all things Jockland. Boasting about its emotional Scottish Heartstrings website, it says: "Great new heartstring added: Edwin Morgan". Er, would that be the same poet who bequeathed £1m to the SNP to win a Yes vote? Indeed so. Silly pluckers.
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