Decision is political correctness gone mad

Sir,

I would like to join the numerous councillors that have quite rightfully criticised a decision to ask our heroic Royal Marines to leave their unloaded weapons outside a school when they were delivering a classroom presentation.

Shockingly, our marines who were invited to talk to pupils at primary schools in Oban and Dunbeg were given a last-minute instruction not to bring the tools of their trade inside.

I have received a deluge of emails and phone calls from people across Argyll and Bute who share my outrage at this slap in the face for our armed forces.

It seems that all it takes to ruin an armed forces school visit is a complaint from one councillor and the woolly-minded bureaucracy of some in the council.

This is clearly political correctness gone mad.

I hope that all future attempts to undo what has become a tradition in Dunbeg, in memory of one of their brave sons who died in the Falklands, will be ignored.

It is high time we all stopped listening so much to a vocal minority who do not speak for the majority in Scotland.

As a country we are hugely proud of our military tradition and, despite the hysterical objections from an easily triggered minority, that pride our country has will not be erased. Councillor Alastair Redman, Islay.