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Fiona the sheep, you have yourself to blame for your lifestyle choices

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CAROL MIDGLEY

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Narrated by Carol Midgley

Am I alone in remaining unmoved by the story of Fiona, Britain’s loneliest sheep? Was I the only person who, on reading about her being stranded for two years around cliffs in the Scottish Highlands then rescued and found to have shown zero self-discipline by growing quite fat, banged my fists on the table shouting, “Fiona, Fiona. Ewe have only yourself to blame”?

As I was saying to Suella Braverman this week, Fiona, just like the homeless, made a “lifestyle choice”. No one forced her to trot to those cliffs and eat the lush shoreline grass while letting her fleece grow unattractively straggly. Her life, her bad choices.

And has anyone considered that she might have wanted to be stranded? Like those people who, as

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