With the usual suspects calling for a ban on BNP members in the teaching profession the following is worth pointing out to any misguided fool who supports such nonsense.

Amid so much rhetoric about child protection the disturbing reality is that many of our youngsters are being taught by people with serious criminal records including assault, drug abuse, house-breaking and shop lifting.

While the General Teaching Council for Scotland is so concerned over which political party teachers may or may not support it has no problem with a total of 83 teachers with criminal records being allowed to remain on their register. Of those six were guilty of assault, two had drugs convictions and six were guilty of public order offences.

These statistics follow the admission that 14 teachers have been sacked for sexual misconduct with pupils in the last five years.

While these convicts remain in employment BNP members and large numbers of newly trained teachers with no criminal records can not find jobs in our classrooms.

Liberalism don’t you just love it?