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SO the day of the biggest decision in Scotlands history has dawned.
After months of political arguments, expert analysis and trance-like dwams caused by the hypnotic effect of Alistair Darlings eyebrows, our minds are made up.
Its too late to alter the path of destiny, so today Ill nip down to the ballot box, tick a box, then dream a SuBo dream of the kind of country Id like to wake up in tomorrow.
It goes without saying that Iwant an efficient health service, top grade education, excellent carefor our elderly and sick, an employment boom, a thriving economy and free Tunnocks teacakes for all. Those are givens.
But as a working mother and political observationist (I may have made that term up), Ive a few extra requests. So whatever side comes out on top tomorrow, in our new political landscape, can I put in an order for the following?
1. Bigger budgets for childrens sports. Its time the politicians realised that insufficient funds for our clubs and organisations are landing parents in the supermarket circle of hell or, as its more commonly called, the fundraising bag pack.
2. Hiking up holiday costs in school holidays should be outlawed. Travel company bosses who refuse should be subjected to daily short-haul flights to Alicante on a budget airline until they see the error of their ways.
3. Lets scrap all ludicrous quangos. I couldnt care less about the preservation of the marshmallow or the study of the environmental effects of dung. All government bodies that dont contribute to any of the essential needs of the population should be binned. Please do not set up a quango to discuss this.
4. In a similar vein, lets junk the junket. Officials should be banned from going on foreign jollies. We dont need six councillors to stay four nights in a Hyatt Regency to examine irrigation systems in Fiji. The qualifying question to be asked of all trips is: If the same event was in a mud hut in Bognor Regis, would you still want to go?
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Shari Low: My vision for Scotland includes free teacakes for all, bigger budgets for kids sports and scrapping junkets