That the Parliament considers that the advertising, promotion and sale of Christmas as a commercial calendar event is now encroaching earlier and earlier in the year; notes that some retailers, accessed by people from Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, are putting Christmas items on sale in August and considers that such activities put unacceptable pressures particularly on parents and carers of young children, increasing pester power and perhaps leading some understandably into financial difficulties; considers that retail staff and shoppers will be subjected to endless jingles before even Halloween masks have been reduced to half price and pumpkins are buy one get six free, and believes that many people are urging the Scottish Government to take such steps as are required to consign Christmas to where they consider it belongs, no earlier than the month of December.