Amid all the Salmond-is-Mussolini ravings, you'd have been forgiven for overlooking by far the most important revelation in the article -
"I was summoned to a meeting with STV’s head of digital and head of news and told my role was being changed. I could edit STV’s politics page or I could write but I could no longer do both."
In other words, Daisley was asked to make a perfectly reasonable choice. He could carry on as STV's digital politics editor and do it in the impartial way that would be expected of anyone else in such a position - or he could carry on writing his columns giving his own personal views. For reasons that mysteriously aren't specified, Daisley chose to give up his columns. So it turns out that all the stuff from Nick Cohen and chums about how Daisley was "silenced" is a load of guff - he was perfectly at liberty, if he so chose, to continue using the highly privileged platform he'd been given (one that for a long time was literally not afforded to anyone else at all) to express his political opinions on a high-profile and trusted website. Instead, he walked away.
A few cynics may be wondering what this whole drama has really been about, and whether Daisley seized upon an opportunity to pose as a unionist martyr in the interests of his own career. Seems to be paying off for him - I would imagine that his Mail column will be rather better remunerated than the STV gig.
Daisley left STV because he had no credibility in Scotland as a hack. Everyone was laughing at him. He left Twitter in the huff like the big Jessie he is because when he wrote anything it was immediately panned and shown to be dishonest. He did not like criticism!.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to him at the Heil. The few people in Scotland who read it are either YOON nutters or women who have little interest in its politics because it IS a good girly newspaper as well as a right wing fascist rag.
There must be a new criteria in politics. The Nat sis carry on with Thatcherite ideology and think they are left wing.
ReplyDeleteClueless Daily Mail Yoon sockpuppet proves the point.
DeleteBlah blah witter drone whine bitch sneer jeer wibble wobble so there
ReplyDeleteThat's the most coherent post you've written in months.
DeleteWibble wobble? How original. Slagging Daisy's appearance is pathetic, Glasgow Working Class 2.
DeleteNice to see Kevin (English racist and pro-nazi SIU dog food seller) Hague forget his script yesterday while defending the bloated bigot.
ReplyDeleteHe wiped £6,000,000,000 off of his beloved fiscal transfer and never corrected himself.
Perhaps because the figures are total and outright lies made up by racists like him.
The racist daily mail is the only place for him.
ReplyDeleteYes, the irony of talking about 1930s-style nationalism in the publication that said "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" seems to be lost on him.
DeleteWhat is the Nat si equivalent to the Daily Mail? Could it be the National!
DeleteI note someone on another thread seemed to be alleging Daisley was a Zionist. That seems rather rascist and a way to avoid mentioning Judeism. Sometimes you wonder who the racists and Natzis are.
Rothermere was a "fan" of Hitler. No doubt Jonathan, the present proprietor, finds that deeply embarrassing and pays all his taxes.
DeleteSome Jock Nat sis were fans of Adolf.
DeleteSurprised you knew about Adolf Hurwitz, he was a great man
DeletePoor old David Mundell on the Sunday Politics today. It can't be much fun being bottom of the Cabinet food chain. :(
ReplyDeleteNot as bad as attending foodbanks in the Joke of North land of wine and honey where 129 MSP'S live the life of luxury.
DeleteThe westminster MP expenses scandal, which the scottish public will not soon forget, was utter dominated by Labour and the Tories sucking the taxpayer dry for Duck Houses and Moats.
DeleteNigel Farage is a public schoolboy multi-millionaire who used to be a stockbroker in the city of London. In other words, HE IS THE ELITE you dumbass.
Theresa May is Oxbridge educated, is also a multi-millionaire who used to work for the Bank of England. THAT is the very DEFINITION of the ELITE you clueless twat.
She's also married to a hedge fund mogul overseeing more than a Trillion in investment funds. VERY working class.
Blair and Brown tour the US, Middle East and Europe selling their 'services' to the highest bidder (tens of millions earned from Dictators and Banks) while the Labour party just keeps right on making Labour Lords because the House of Lords is REALLY working class. LOL
Face it, you yourself have about as much in common with the working class as David Cameron did because you're a witless kipper sockpuppet with the IQ of a peanut.
And no doubt you were educated in a school where the Brother's nick named you Bend Over.
DeleteIt was great meeting you in The Underground I love meeting fellow bears with the same interests
DeleteAh, diddums...Isn't life lovely? Love at first fcuk for MacFudd and the aspirant uber BritNat troll, GWC2: Mwah...Mwah kisses.
DeleteBrit GCHQ attempts to mate with Brit 77 Brigade resulting in mulish sterility.
Nice one girls and boys! Captain Mannering would have been proud of you!
Thought you and your fellow muppet Conan the Brit Destroyer had given up the fash struggle.
DeleteWe forgive you.
DeleteIf Daisley is writing in the Mail comparing SNP to neo-Nazis he might inadvertently get the Mail readers voting SNP in droves.
ReplyDeleteBut hardly anyone reads the mail according to you fash so how could it help you!
DeleteAnyhow when are you shreddie skidmarks calling the referendum.
GSTQ, WATP something something matron when am I getting my enema
DeleteI picked Stephen up last year and buggered him rotten. It was like fucking a speccy hippo.
ReplyDeleteStephen who?
DeleteIt's Step Hen.
DeleteHiv the bottle tae say his full name and your erse will be sued.
DeleteSergeant Schultz
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