Fed up with the extremes

IT is with some dread, during this horrendous lockdown, that I peruse comments online. Every day the partisan bile from all sides of the political divide leaves me cold. Is it not possible to constructively criticise or comment on any particular policy or human failing without getting dog’s abuse from the other side?

I just happen to be that terrible person without any particular partisan opinion. I treat each policy, election or referendum on its own merits with a particular bias to the potential economic outcomes. For example, I’m happy to forgive Nicola Sturgeon for her mask error but equally able to forgive Douglas Ross missing a meeting.

These days I cannot be alone in feeling disenfranchised, given the extremes of unionism and nationalism. Doing the right thing for the good of the country seems to have gone completely out the window.

The one thing I do know with absolute certainty is that the calibre of our politicians is woeful. So if we are expecting them to lead us to some Nirvana then I think we are destined to be disappointed. That said, my vote is up for grabs, so a bit more constructive and knowledgeable debate instead of endless partisan sound bites would not go amiss. Ian Mcnair, Cellardyke.

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