Quote Originally Posted by Hamish
Quote Originally Posted by Raphael
Are the World leaders going to wear kilts in that Tartan for a photo op?
Oh, please! Raphael, not even Tony Blair in a kilt would make the man acceptable! :twisted:
Did you see Jack McConnell (Scotland's First Minister) in one of Howie Nicholsby's pinstripe kilt suits at Tartan Day in NYC last year? He looked absolutely dreadful in it -- not to mention, it wasn't TARTAN, for Tartan Day! (Hamish, you, on the other hand, look brilliant in Howie's kilts!) I wonder if all the bad press he got about it is part of the reason he's not attending Tartan Day here this year? Tony Blair might be better equipped to do justice to the kilt -- at least physically! (He is of Scottish descent and birth, anyway!)

I've been talking to Brian Wilton, yesterday and today, about various and sundry things, including the G8 tartan, for which he's swamped with orders. The Scottish press have made much of the fact that Cherie Blair (an Englishwoman, God forbid!) selected the winning tartan for the G8 competition, and some journalists have said the whole thing was run from London, which is completely untrue. It was initiated by a Scottish cashmere producer and run by the STA. Six impartial SCOTTISH judges narrowed the field of 19 entries down to the final three before it was given over to Cherie to pick a winner. I'm sure she was given the honour simply because she's the PM's wife (I suppose Camilla wasn't available - ha ha ha!). SNP members may not like it, but it IS still the United Kingdom, so having the PM's wife do this sort of thing should not be viewed askance -- it's typical of her role in public life.

I could grumble a lot more about the way the press are trying to fluff up a lot of innuendo to provoke outrage over (the supposed lack of) Scottish influence at the G8 summit at Gleneagles, but I'd better haud ma tongue!