SNP candidate laughed at for education comments

Responding to SNP candidate Deirdre Brock’s comments on education at a hustings on Wednesday night, Scottish Liberal Democrat Edinburgh and Lothians East list candidate Jane Alliston Pickard said:

"It was utterly bizarre to see a wannabe parliamentarian declare that basic skills are no longer needed.

"People in the room were literally laughing at her.

"Then again, when your only real goal is pushing SNP plans for breaking up the UK, perhaps it helps to have kids who are mathematically illiterate.

"Education can be transformational but under the SNP Scotland is no longer the best in the world. Scottish Liberal Democrats want to turn that around and for us that starts by getting phones out of classrooms and getting more pupil support assistants in."