Kids comic The Beano has upset Scots with its decision to launch a new comic strip about a family called the Neds:
Rosie Kane, the Scottish Socialist MSP memorably failed to get the term “ned” banned from use in the Scottish parliament. She complained: “To call young people neds, drug dealers, shoplifters or any other thing is a huge assumption. They are young people.” Baseball caps were recently banned from the easyInternetcafe chain in Glasgow and Edinburgh because of their association with ned culture.
Stewart Stevenson, justice spokesman for the SNP, said the Beano strip portrayed a “grotesque” and “damaging” caricature of modern Scotland.
The Scottish Children’s Commissioner isn’t happy, either.
Dennis the Menace would be proud.