Drinking a toast to public apathy

WHENEVER the former Liberal Democrats leader Charles Kennedy was challenged on his drinking habits, he’d deflect by saying that just because he was Scottish and enjoyed the odd dram.

Everybody assumed he was a dipso.

Well the assumption, as it turns out, wasn’t too wide of the mark. Bonny prinnssh Charlie got the order of the boot last week from colleagues who finally made public - in the cruellest way - their constant whingeing about his constant bingeing.