This is quite dull but it's about politicians innit
1) Charles Kennedy when he was still the youngest MP, at some junket in Dingwall. He seemed a cheery wee soul, very affable, and nowhere near as pissed as I was. Next morning I woke up, not in my hotel room, but in the bed and arms of... no, not Charlie, but a lovely young lady who's name I never found out.

2) Michael fucking Gove, when he was a cub reporter with the Aberdeen Press & Journal. A friend of mine had drowned at sea and somehow MG got my name and number and quizzed me about my pal's life and times. It became clear that he was digging for dirt so I hung up.

3) I voted for Nicol Stephen because I used to know him socially and I thought he needed all the help he could get. I was gobsmacked when a lot of other people also voted for him and he became an MP (Aberdeen South, 2005 - 2008). The fact that he's now Baron Stephen is just amazing (not in a good way).

4) The group RunRig and their retinue used to occasionally brush up against my social circle so I suppose having a drink with Pete Wishart (now SNP MSP for Perth) qualifies as an encounter.

5) I used to do business with a senior member of the House of Lords; after five years he suddenly started to insist that I call him Nigel. This turned out to be a ruse to get me to charge him mate's rates and for him to take forever to pay up. Crafty old twat.

6) Many years ago at a low-key, boring as fuck launch party - something either literary or arty, I can't remember which - I was introduced to Alec Salmond, then one of the SNP's handful of MPs but already getting a reputation as a bit of an operator. He's much less brash and smug in real life, and I was amazed when maybe 15 years later...

7) I met him again at another, higher profile do with all sorts of Scottish sophisticates and social climbers. Not only did he remember who I was and what I did, I ended up doing some work for him when he became First Minister.

8) As a result of which I got invited to SNP fundraisers so I've also met, very briefly, the current Superstar, Nicola Sturgeon, and the other greats such as, erm, John Swinney and Stewart Hosie. Oh, and Angus Robertson.

9) And Sean Connery, but he's not an MP or anything so it doesn't count and now I'm obviously just showing off.

_{10) And I voted No to Independence. Don't tell anyone or I'm dead.}
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Sat 2 May 2015, 18:54, Reply)