Just HOW pro-SNP is the BBC? I suppose they instinctively admire any Party that seeks to break up the UK and a Biased BBC reader advises;
“As a Brit who does not reside in Scotland I appreciate that this feature might seem a little parochial but I have to inform you that the BBC’s pro-SNP stance is well-known up here and is, quite frankly beyond belief – perhaps a little similar to the BBC’s love affair with Irish Republicanism?
This Sunday Politics feature (link below) begins by focusing on the pro-independence campaign’s weekend march in Edinburgh; it was basically an advert for the Yes/SNP agenda with no balance provided from unionists, who, if the polls are to be believed, constitute over two thirds of the Scottish populace; Unionists are the majority but you wouldn’t believe this by watching this biased package. There was no mention that the turnout was utterly feeble, with only 5, 000 nationalists turning up. In the feature you have shots of Alex Salmond and anti-English nasty bit of work, Margo MacDonald, preaching to the converted, and a cynical mention of how a unionist started a scuffle as a result of flying a Union Jack flag. I live in Edinburgh and can inform you that there were boos from hundreds, if not thousands, of Unionists as the march went by; the BBC doesn’t mention this or hint at this at all. Neither did it mention that Alex Salmond got booed by thousands at the Olympian homecoming in Glasgow a couple of weeks’ back.
After the feature in the ‘analysis’ section there was absolutely no attempt at getting the views of Unionists but instead we had a pro-independence interview with the Chairman of the Yes campaign; he was giving free reign to speak his mind numbingly boring/biased drivel with no interruptions from well-known SNPer Isobel Fraser. It was an utter DISGRACE! As an Englishman working up here I am disgusted by the BBC’s constant groveling to the SNP agenda. It really is awful and they get away with it on a daily basis.
Anyway, here is the link to the program.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mzg0r/Sunday_Politics_Scotland_23_09_2012/
EU has bought BBC favours, runs Scotland through Quislings like Salmond, and wants UK replaced by regions – the same as it intends for the other EU member states.
It’s divide and rule, and the SNP does the same within Scotland – it’s hostile to unionists, protestants/Rangers fans, and the Scottish Defence League (but not moslem block voters)
United we stand, divided we fall.
The SNP (Scottish Nose Pickers) are the nearest thing the the UK has to an extremist power corrupt communist party – you think Liebour and the Lib Dems are bad… try living up here for a few months. Alex Salmond leads with an iron grip and any dissent in the lower ranks is met with dismissal – this has been confirmed by former members who have spoken out about how the party has a totalitarian hierarchicy built entirely around the Fat Controller.
It’s OK for the SNP to be anti-English and openly spout bigoted views on air, at sports events etc… but try slagging off Scotland and you get called racist!
Very much the impression I get. With Salmond it’s “My way or the highway”. I guess you have to be like that to be a successful politician – pretend to speak for all the people, but be prepared to be an expert manipulator
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The BBC on the SNP: I’m not a conspiracy theorist but sometimes you do wonder if some people in the BBC are bent on destroying the B that starts their organisation.
The SNP government ? Mainly comprised of overblown, second-rate politicians (who couldn’t make it into, or in, Westminster) in an overblown, second-rate parliament, in a decidedly overblown, second-rate building, which continually bleats about how someone else is responsible for anything that doesn’t reflect well on the SNP.
And then we have the zealots who actually believe everything this second-rate government says.
And if you were to ask the average punter on the streets of Scotland to properly identify any SNP government minister other than the overblown Mr Salmond, I wouldn’t take bets on many of them being able to provide a correct answer to the question.
And have you see the MP’s at the Euro Parliament ? I hate to be so judgemental, but they all look 3rd rate, except Nigel Farage of course. Time and money wasters, the lot of them. Their time, and our money.
According to the Times (blah blah Murdoch rag blah blah) there are 140,000 people in Scotland net net paying tax. Every man jack of the rest of the 6 million is on the State.
In my book (that would be the Oxford English Dictionary) ‘independent’ means ‘not being dependent’.
In the SNP’s book ‘independent’ means,
‘continuing to receive subsidies from the English taxpayer and the EU, but having even more freedom as to how we spend it – and being able to borrow even more and spend that as well’.
Scotland is and always will be an African feeding station waiting for the steam chicken to arrive. ‘Always will be’, because so long as the steam chicken continues to arrive every week, why bother farming.
I am no lover of the Scottish Government, Uncle Bup, but that figure of only 140,000 net taxpayers out of the nearly 6 million inhabitants of Scotland did not ring true at all. So I had a look for information, and I can’t find specifically a number for NET taxpayers, but there are figures in the attached link to a government website –
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/06/22160331/7
– which calculates that there were almost 2.8 million taxpayers in Scotland in the year 2008-9, of whom, 288,000 were higher rate taxpayers, and 2.14 million were basic rate taxpayers (the remainder were on Starter rates and Saver rates). To achieve the 140,000 NET taxpayers figure attributed to the Times, that would mean that pretty much no taxpayers who were earning up to around £40k were net taxpayers, and at least half of all higher rate taxpayers were NOT net taxpayers. That doesn’t make much sense – even if you were to completely exclude the incredibly high number of public sector workers (around half a million or more in Scotland).
As to the question of overall subsidy, I don’t think that Scotland is as much of a basket case as the numbers you have seen would appear to show – BUT… there are a hell of a lot of people North of the Border who will get one hell of a shock if independence is voted for. Just like the rest of the UK, there are a massive number of state spongers, but there is an incredibly high number of public sector employees also.
Let`s hope that they don`t send Sarah Montague up north for the SNP conference anyway.
Heard her this morning “interviewing” that liberal lightweight who was went from Highland Tourism to George Osbornes number 2…in every sense.
That tone of Montys wants me to smack her chops(don`t tell Womans Hour though please!).
That plummy Montessori mum voice is straight from Patricia Hewitts patronising deep tones , speaking…e…ever so ..slow…ly…to show she cares and we`re all a bit thick.
That bloody voice she uses-90%Hewitt, 10% Shrew…drives me daft-as if Hodge and Harman didn`t have the copyright on it.
Now this is ONE thing we CAN lay at Margaret Thatchers door by way of blame…imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
No wonder these harpies round Ches cauldron hate Maggie so much…she does patronising far better than they ever will, much as they hate her.
I propose NO women get near the Today studio, until they unlearn BBC “patronising compassion and concern”…Monty is a disgrace.
I want Sue McGregor back!
The SNP is bad enough, but if anything the Greens in Scotland are even worse. Their leader, Patrick Harvie MSP, a truly nasty piece of work, has called for climate change sceptics and anti gay marriage campaigners to be silenced. He really is an authoritarian creep.
The loud boos that greeted Salmond were also censored out by Scottish Television. Unionist Facebook websites, which are growing strongly with their number of Likes, (far more than the Natzis), highlighted this STV failure. So the BBC isn’t alone. Haven’t Two BBC execs recently joined SNP propagnda depts. in PR roles?
If you guys bothered to a look up some real figures instead of memorising the front page of the the pro-union paper, you would find that Scotland has actually been subsidising the rUK (every year for the past 30 years)
All the media in the whole UK are redicliously anti-Scotland, anti-independence and anti-SNP. You must be unbelievably small mined not to see this.
Post independence Scotland will be a me to invest in its own future instead of having its wealth squandered for the few in the south east.
If a yes vote is achieved, the economic mess Westminster has dragged us all into will just be a problem for the remainder of the UK only.
I would not be surprises if the rUK begged Scotland to return for the security it’s energy resources provide to not only the currency but the economy as a whole.
Who knows perhaps Scotland will need to curb mass migration from south to north!