Quote of the day

"There's a very attractive girl in the second row, dark ... and dusky. We'll maybe put a wee word out for her. She's very attractive looking, nice, very nice, very slim. The heat's getting to me. She looks kinda ... she's got that Filipino look. You know ... the kind you'd see in a Gauguin painting. There's a wee bit of culture."

Not your average leer, granted (how many times have you come across references to Gauguin paintings in FHM or the Sun?), but it was enough to bring to an abrupt end MSP Frank McAveety's political career.