Anyone catch THIS interview with SNP Leader Alex Salmond this morning? Given the SNP’s central role in releasing Libyan bomber Al-Megrahi and given the chaos on Scotland’s roads and streets, one might have expected a rather more challenging interview from Humphyrs but apart from a few token barks at the beginning, I thought he was rather purring as Salmond was allowed to get away with rhetorical murder, in the same sense that Al-Megrahi got away with actual murder. What is it about the English hating petty socialist SNP that so appeals to the BBC……..
SOFTBALLS FOR SALMOND
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The answer to your last question is in the question itself: BBC News is itself wall-to-wall English-hating petty socialists, and most of them Scottish! Hardly like to give the lugubrious Mr Salmond a smoking (or is that kippers?).
It isn’t the Scottish “Government”, it’s the Scottish “Executive”. I know the sprayers of English-paid tax north of the border like to style themselves as a “government” but, unfortunately, legally they are an “executive”. There’s as much need to refer to them by their chosen moniker as it is to refer to Bombay as “Mumbai” or Madras as “Chennai”. When did the BBC last refer to Rome as “Roma” unless they got confused in all their PC crapola and thought the capital of Italy was a gypsy?
‘Gypsy, Unbongo??? Shame on you. “Caravan-borne entrepreneurs” is the correct name these days.
Or what we used to call (in the good old days) “chavs”, “Dids” (didecoys), “tinkers”, “Gypos” or “Toerags”. In those days, one wasn’t obliged to have cause to refer to everyone and everything in ultra-PC terms, for fear of upsetting the poor minorities, we just told the thieving bastards to get out of our garden, in no uncertain terms, and to leave the bicycle and coal scuttle they were about to filch where they found them.
They always have, and always will be, ‘filthy pikie scum’
Don’t pretend you don’t appreciate having everything not bolted down stolen. Don’t even try.
I thought the BBC had established amongst themsleves that Salmond and his boys (and Brown) were exonerated last time this came up by claiming that they went with doctors’ advice and these things can never be predicted perfectly? I wouldn’t expect any new serious challenge from BBC producers or Today presenters.
“The more we learn about the release of the Lockerbie bomber, the more it stinks ”
(Con Coughlin)
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100067298/the-more-we-learn-about-the-release-of-the-lockerbie-bomber-the-more-it-stinks/
Why, when a BBC correspondent had just teed him up, was John Humphreys unable to ask Alex Salmond the key question this morning:
As the leaks state, did you imply to the British government a year before Megrahi was released (a) that he would be released early, and (b) that you would take the decision not Justice minister MacAskill?
Are they even aware that all prisoners released early by the Justice Minister, except Megrahi, died within two months of release, one the day after and one even the same day.
See
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/legal/lockerbie/CompassionateReleasePro/granted-refused/granted2000-09
The Megrahi decision was down to the advice given by the Prison Senior Medical Officer (a non-expert) who interpreted the views of consultant oncologists to the Scottish government. His abilities should surely be subject to review.
Could BBC interviewers be specially trained to deal with Mr Salmond as none seem to be able to use the techniques they apply to other politicians?
Why, when your correspondent had just teed him up, was John Humphreys unable to ask Alex Salmond the key question:
As the leaks state, did you imply to the British government a year before Megrahi was released (a) that he would be released early, and (b) that you would take the decision not Justice minister MacAskill?
All prisoners released early by the Justice Minister, except Megrahi, died within two months of release, one the day after and one the same day.
Umbongo – in statute it is the Scottish Executive, which confusingly is the same term used for the Ministers, and for their Civil Service Department. But it is quite entitled to call itself the Scottish Government, and that’s much more meaningful for Scottish people. A new government, if there is one elected next year, will be free to change it back to Scottish Executive. And it’s UK tax, not English tax. And I’m a Unionist.