I couldn’t let last evening’s Question Time Scottish extravaganza go without comment! What a leftist love-in from the caledonian socialist republic with a panel groaning with those on the political left! Did you see it? Naturally George Galloway – that doyen of the communist-loving dhimmified left – was given a rapturous welcome and his every utterance throughout the programme was warmly applauded. His praise of Castro in particular was revolting – but his sentiments were generally echoed by the other panellists to varying degrees. Might Castro become the patron saint of the Scottish Parliament? Every cliche about Cuba’s “World class” health service was repeated with no one offering a dissenting view. The poisonous SNP member Nicola Sturgeon was given free rein to spew forth her strident socialism, meanwhile we had Labour’s Cathy Jamieson and the Lib-Dem’s Nicol Stephen to provide even more …erm…left wing balance.The mild mannered and somewhat wet lettuce conservative Annabel Goldie was there as the token Tory. This edition of the programme was one of the worst I have seen in a while – with the rabble in the audience cheering on that on the panel. Do you think the BBC recruit in their audiences for this programme from the local socialist workers collective – or maybe that would be too mild for them?
STIRLING BIAS!
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“If, let’s say, as much time was devoted to the Conservative Party, then the lefties would be screaming about right-wing bias”
I thought the Conservative party was greener than green these days, so surely this is a (big ‘C’) Conservative issue?
Unfortunately until one of the major political parties starts talking about this stuff in a sensible way there’s no ‘position’ to pin moderate coverage on.
“Unfortunately until one of the major political parties starts talking about this stuff in a sensible way there’s no ‘position’ to pin moderate coverage on.”
Not sure what you mean. Since when did journalists require a line from one of the three main political parties to refer to before they were able to produce balanced reporting on an issue?
You know I am disgusted that they let those idiots speak so many lies about Cuba. As a cuban, it makes me throw up because they have no idea how miserable it is to live in Cuba, well, to survive in Cuba because you don’t really LIVE fully. One thing is to let them speak all the lies they want, but the BBC commentators should at least have the decency to debate their ridiculous arguments about Cuba.
If Cuba is such a “paradise” then why in the world does it have a negative immigration rate?? why are cubans fleeing and swimming away from “paradise”?? maybe because it isen’t paradise moronic BBC.
I really hope the Scottish people’s view were not represented by these liers.
Are the Scotts leftist in general???
Are the Scotts leftist in general???
diana | 06.03.08 – 3:34 pm |
To the point of moronic stupidity.
It’s the largest welfare benificiary in the UK.
Actually, most Scots are rather more socially conservative that their English contemporaries. What opinion sampling has been carried out on this topic shows that. The reason that politics now tends to be predominantly but not exclusively left of centre up here is because the Tories screwed things up, big time, in the 70s, 80s and 90s by being tied to what was widely seen, in Scotland, as a Unionist, anti-Scottish agenda.
Heath, Thatcher and Major were perceived as representing nothing and nobody outside of the S.East. Almost an occupying power with no roots in Scotland.
As to the QT panel. I have no idea why Galloway was on it. He wouldn’t have been invited by many locals from up here as he is widely regarded as a bit of an arsehole by the vast majority of Scots. The Stirling audience didn’t strike me as being typical of Central Belt Scotland but of a small university town with a large academic/student component of its population.
Thanks for the clarification, I don’t read much about Scotland politics so I wanted to know what they tend to lean towards.