Letters / Playing political games over a crisis

It seems that the SNP candidate and her campaign backers (Fiona Morton Cluness 10th September) have already picked up the SNP approach to using human tragedy for political purposes.

Anyone who cares about the issue will know that the Liberal Democrats back immediate recognition of the state of Palestine and have campaigned for this for many years.

Notoriously, when the Liberal Democrats reached out to the SNP last year to build consensus on a Gaza ceasefire motion in the UK Parliament, they were flatly rejected.

The SNP’s goal was not to find a consensus but to use Gaza to make political attacks on other parties.

Politics can often be fiercely contested, but when it leads to playing games over a crisis like the one we are seeing in Palestine, it goes too far.

Theo Smith
Whiteness