Kids as pawns

A leaked memo which may or may not be true; a leader, backed up by her party members, who is demanding a resignation, and the rather unsavoury sight of children holding SNP signs with “Liar Carmichael” on them.

These children may like their minute of fame on the news but political parties are more and more using children waving party banners and flags on show in the media.

They cannot even go to nursery without being accosted by politicians.

They will be bored enough when they are older so let them just get on with being themselves without parties using them as pawns in a point-scoring world inhabited by our MSP and MPs.

DM Duff

Edinburgh