Iain Macwhirter: Reckless sniping of Left and Right is destroying public respect for politics

ISLAMOPHOBE! Anti-Semite! Fascist dog-whistler! Jew-hating wreath layer! The pot-versus-kettle war of hyperbole has been raging across Labour and the Tories throughout this long hot (and now not-so-hot) summer. It reminds me of the bickering rows my children used to have, where one of them would quote distorted versions of remarks made by another and tearfully demand that I agree about their brother or sister’s manifest perfidy. To which you could only say: I’m sure he/she didn’t mean it, so let’s just try to enjoy the film. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16419263.iain-macwhirter-reckless-sniping-of-left-and-right-is-destroying-public-respect-for-politics/