MP’S TALK IS CHEAP AS CHIPS

I HAVE never believed that age is proof of wisdom – but neither will I be seduced into thinking youth equals truth.

The SNP’s Mhairi Black has said her election has proved that a girl from a chipshop can become an MP.

That is one way of looking at it. Or you could say that a hot-housed daughter of a school teacher brought up in a middle-class part of Paisley is precocious enough to think she can rule the world.

Yesterday Miss Black, pictured, spoke to the nation on television, proving she can keep the SNP press office’s best lines in her head.

Let’s ignore the fact that she contradicted the select committee report on pensions with which she was meant to agree. Why be consistent when you can spout incoherent ideas with absolute certainty?

Miss Black’s authenticity could only have been proved further if she had said ‘braw’. Or remembered to end a sentence with ‘but’.

For all her education, I suspect this is just another MP whose opinions are cheap as chips.