GORDON Brown has criticised the SNP over their failure to significantly reduce child poverty in Scotland.

I fully agree we should be doing better.

He went on to say “Poverty is not just a scandal – for children it is a crime.”

Does Gordon Brown ever consider how much child poverty he helped create when he voted for the Iraq war? Thousands of innocent kids killed or orphaned in Iraq, all resulting in major child poverty for thousands of innocent Iraqi children.

I would like to think Mr Brown might have a road to Damascus moment and get himself out there to help. Perhaps a road to Baghdad moment in this case.

Or he could hand himself into the Kirkcaldy constabulary and admit his responsibilities to the children of Iraq in what he in his own words said: “Poverty is not just a scandal – for children it is a crime.”

I Archibald

Edinburgh