TV banana skin

While it is possible that an SNP legal challenge may prevent the proposed Sky-pushed TV debates (your report, 3 March) for the leaders of three political parties being transmitted in Scotland (the SNP have succeeded with such a challenge before), if these are actually transmitted in Scotland, potential banana skins await the Labour, Liberal Democrats and Conservative TV-sponsored leaders and their parties may well suffer.

It has been stated that health and education will be addressed and I suspect that social services, local government and law may be addressed too. In any of these topics, Messrs Brown, Clegg and Cameron will be on the horns of a dilemma concerning Scotland: MPs debate those topics as an England-only matter, sometimes including Wales, and it seems highly unlikely that the three would try to pontificate on Scottish aspects of such, as the Westminster parliament has no control of them.

If Scots viewers should decide not to vote for any party whose TV transmissions into Scotland addresses issues as England-only (ignore Scotland) matters, then those parties would suffer at the polls.

TELFORD MOORE

Grangehill Drive

Monifieth, Angus