Take a break? More like give us a break... Danny Alexander pins his election chances on toe-curling garish pamphlet including his own recipe for 'sausage and butternut squash stew'
Garish campaign pamphlet produced by Treasury minister appears to be based on Take a Break magazine
Talk of the Glens contains no fewer than 17 photos of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury – including one as a child
'Danny's sausage and butternut squash stew' which includes 'roughly diced' squash but 'finely chopped' onion
He is pictured posing with Quentin Willson and a bottle of Dalwhinnie whisky is offered as a crossword prize
By Alan Roden For The Scottish Daily Mail
Published: 11:58, 26 February 2015 | Updated: 14:10, 26 February 2015
Like all good lifestyle mags, it features family recipes, a crossword and minor celebrities. But 'Talk of the Glens' is a magazine with a difference – it is actually a political campaign leaflet for one of Britain's most high-profile MPs.
Apparently modelled on 'Take a Break', the garish pamphlet is Danny Alexander's secret weapon as he bids to see off a major election challenge from the SNP in his Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey seat.
It contains no fewer than 17 photos of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury – including one of him as a young child and several digitally manipulated images of Mr Alexander from the internet.
With the catchline 'true life stories from the Highlands', the magazine includes a recipe for 'Danny's sausage and butternut squash stew' – which includes 'roughly diced' squash but 'finely chopped' onion - and a crossword that offers the prize of a bottle of Dalwhinnie single malt whisky.
the whole thing is here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970162/Take-break-like-break-Danny-Alexander-pins-election-chances-toe-curling-garish-pamphlet-including-recipe-sausage-butternut-squash-stew.html