Anent the Bonny Hind and songs of that ilk, could the reason for many of the young men returning to sisters who do not know them be that in Celtic societies the sons [eldest?] were put out to foster parents at a very young age and brought up as members of that family with no privileges whatever thus better fitting them for their future leadership role in society.

Could this principle not be applied to our budding polititians?   A five year spell in a deep coal mine, living as their hosts do, would surely sort out the wheat from the chaff.