Bardell’s brazen own goal
THE SNP’s Hannah Bardell engages in another attention-seeking wheeze, this time playing football in Westminster and tweeting the photos.
If she really thinks that’s an appropriate way to celebrate 100 years of women in politics, she’s totally out of touch with the majority of hardworking women.
I’m old enough to recall very real sex discrimination, when the workplace truly was a ‘man’s world’. Consequently, I have the deepest respect for women such as Margaret Thatcher, Betty Boothroyd, Ann Widdecombe and Winnie Ewing.
They were all strong and astute politicians who broke into their profession when the ‘glass ceiling’ was made of multiple reinforced layers. Yet, in recent years we’ve seen a range of ridiculous behaviour from female Nationalist politicians.
Miss Bardell has sought to push the boundaries of silliness even further. Whilst such behaviour might secure her the five minutes of notoriety she so clearly craves, she does herself no favours.
Of more concern is that she does immeasurable damage to the image of women in the workplace.
A. MORRISON, Dyce, Aberdeen. HANNAH Bardell playing football in the House of Commons? She is a typical representative of the SNP: she continues to live down to our most modest expectations, is an embarrassment to Scotland, and is unfit to represent the voters of Livingston. ANDREW WHITE, Livingston,
West Lothian. YET again some MPs have shown a low level of contempt for Westminster with their ‘kick-about’ in the Commons. Some Nationalists have always had a degree of contempt for any British institution.
Imagine for a second if a group of Conservative MSPs had done the same thing in the debating chamber of Holyrood. The SNP would be apoplectic and the Nationalist ‘twitterverse’ would go into meltdown.
Not that such behaviour is new. From wearing a Scotland football top in the Commons, to paraphrasing Trainspotting (imagine reading Hansard in 50 years), to wanting to cause ‘maximum disruption’, such antics may impress a few of the most zealous Nationalists but not the rest of us. Sadly, the silent majority of Scotland just accept these gaffes with a weary shrug.
DAVID BONE, Girvan, Ayrshire.