Kezia Dugdale: Scottish Labour leader grilled by children for a party political broadcast
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Version 0 of 1. Often the best questions are asked by children, as David Cameron found out during the general election campaign. And that was proven once again as Labour’s Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale was grilled by children for a party political broadcast to be shown on Scottish TV on Thursday evening. There were questions that were nosy, such as “what do you do in your job all day?” (“I try to help people”), a question from a boy who wants to be “in charge of Dr. Who” who asked why there was a Labour party (“to help people”), to a question asking whether her job was “really hard” (“sometimes”), but the top question came from a young girl, who was sat next to her mate Lucas. “Will I get paid the same amount of money as Lucas when I grow up?" If she was grown up now, Ms Dugdale told her, she would only get paid 89p for every £1 Lucas earned. “That’s unfair – that’s 11p difference just because he’s a boy and you’re a girl,” she replied as Lucas sat there looking very awkward.
And then she was asked to stare into her crystal ball to tell a girl what job she could do when she grew up. “You could be absolutely anything,” Ms Dugdale said, before just about naming every job there is. “An engineer, or a computer coder.. writer, athlete, doctor, scientist, and if you can’t do any of those things, you could be a politician." So the message for kids was clear: if you fail at everything else, go into politics. |