Politicians could learn from young

Sir, – At the end of October all three of my children get to vote in Scottish Parliament elections in 2026 and yet my 17-yearold daughter is doing an advanced Higher modern studies dissertation on voter behaviour but can’t vote in the general election.

In fact, worse than that, she is actually standing as a candidate for the Scottish Youth Parliament for Banff and Buchan Coast constituency. The electorate for that is between 12 years and 25 years of age.

The tactics of the opposition politicians are as depressing as they are futile. In Scotland they can vote at 16 years old and, if the bus turns up or is not cancelled, they can use an under-22 bus pass.

Jill Stephenson goes on in her Press and Journal letter of March 11 about the separatist project and yet, for me, the unionists and federalists contribute towards it, in my opinion.

Who was it that decided Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were suitable candidates for party leader and prime minister?

Members of the supposedly Conservative and Unionist Party, the unionist part refers to Irish union. They clearly want the Scottish union to go the same way?

While both Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar were at FMQs on February 15, in sharp contrast Karen Adam MSP was chairing a packed standing-room-only meeting in her constituency office on the Stagecoach bus service.

What is the point of getting to the top of the NHS waiting list if, when you get there, you can’t get a bus?

Is Anas Sarwar trying to send folk to sleep the number of times he goes on about the NHS?

The education system is clearly failing when we see the absolutely outstanding efforts of two Higher travel and tourism classes in Taste of Buchan 2024, and our young folk could teach our politicians about the appreciation of teachers in delivering it.

As for politicians, from what I saw from the Speaker and Labour Party on February 21 – thankfully I was at Peterhead Academy’s parents’ evening shows – Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are not fit for opposition never mind government, in my opinion.

I get it that they hate the SNP but, despite the fact my own eldest daughter has no time for the politics of David Duguid MP, she had a photograph with him in Peterhead Library on a day off from school.

Maybe the main opposition party could learn from her, but probably not, and all the folk involved in Taste of Buchan 2024. Peter Ovenstone, Peterhead.