God

I have to admit to being pretty taken aback when I heard that Nick Clegg, the leader of half of the Liberal Democrats, does not believe in God.

Of course, let me just restate what everyone else will say but only some will truly agree with: What religious belief a politician holds should not rule what we make of the person's ability to do the job they've been elected to do.

That said, I can't say with 100% conviction that I'm one of those who says the above and truly believes it.

Putting religion to one side, it's the man's logic that I have to question more than anything else.

You step outside your front door and you see trees and birds and pregnant women, there is air we can breathe and the temperature is just about right for our ultimately frail little bodies to survive in (though here in Edinburgh I wouldn't complain if someone turned the thermostat up just a little bit for the next few months. Though it's good to see that as a planet we're doing something about that too)

I do believe in God, though not with any great fervour. The world and how it functions is very hard to explain without one. Granted it is almost equally as difficult to explain how the world functions with a greater being watching over us given the constant and seemingly irrepressible famines and wars we see in different continents every decade.

But the crucial difference is that the world, in my eyes, is very difficult to explain with a God and impossible to explain without one so with that in mind, I will have to question if Nick Clegg has the sufficiently robust scientific and logical mind that I would require of the leader who gets my vote in future.