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Trust levels worldwide with the BBC can be attributed to three main factors.
ReplyDeleteLegacy: The BBC was once free to reflect the opinions of its journalistic staff. The Birmingham six and the Guilford four had their convictions quashed partly as a result of Panorama and ITV’s competing, flagship current affairs platform World In Action.
Alternatives: There ain’t much competition out there. The oligarch press and other national broadcasters who are even worse than the BBC (Al Jazeera are broadly better but for obvious reasons they won’t criticise Qatar).
Subtlety: BBC bias doesn’t take the form of screeching, Pyongyang propaganda. Editorial policy selects certain permitted word and phrases. The health infrastructure in Gaza “crumbled”. Err, no it didn’t. Medieval castles crumble. The hospitals in Gaza had 2,000 lb bombs dropped on them, after which demolition teams moved in and raised the remaining structures to rubble.
The BBC messed up big time with the Question Time / Menthorn Media / Billy Mitchell scandal. The Scottish Government could have taken an adversarial approach and forced changes. Instead, they opted to let the BBC off the hook.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they made the naïve calculation that having been caught out practicing outrageous bias against Scottish independence, the BBC would proactively correct its behaviour?
Perhaps the fact that the politicians and the journalists move in the same social circles caused the Scottish Government to show some squeamishness towards wielding the knife towards their “friends”?
Perhaps Nicola Sturgeon’s fixation with gender politics caused her to declare “sisterly solidarity” with the head of BBC Scotland, Donalda MacKinnon (breaking the glass ceiling and all that)?
Oh here we go -its nicolas fault! Try another tune.
Delete“ Try another tune” why because you don’t like the truth.
DeleteBilly Mitchell an orangeman. He stood for Ukip at a by-election and got 34 votes.
Delete34 votes ? ATLS look on in envy !
DeleteThe current iteration of “D notices” are being used with a frequency I can’t remember from previous decades.
ReplyDeleteThe Keir Starmer arson trial would be a prime example.
As soon as the guilty verdicts were in, the BBC’s Panorama programme put out their version of what happened. In their account, “el Money” was a single person. During the trial (covered by independent journalists) el Money was revealed to be multiple people including one woman. Why would the BBC alter this trivial detail? It didn’t alter their basic thesis, that a Russian security service was behind the operation. Although no absolute proof of their thesis is available, it’s a racing certainty that the FSB or GRU were manipulating the hapless stooges.
Perhaps it’s policy to insert a little untruthfulness into every narrative to keep the public permanently exposed to the propaganda? The little lies will dull the sensibilities of the public for when it’s time to deliver the big lie.
An excellent video James, delivered with great passion and clarity, in which I agreed with everything you said.
ReplyDeleteAnother topic is BBC staff who are sexual offenders. There has been a long long list of them over many decades but none of the coverage of their guilty staff got anywhere near the levels of negative coverage that Salmond endured and he was acquitted. Similarly poor old Cliff Richard got it bad from the BBC ( he was innocent as well ) compared to the BBC’s own guilty staff.
A second topic is Scotland’s oil and gas. The BBC were very happy to continually say the oil would run out in 10 years during the referendum in 2014. 12 years on there is never a word about this as they debate whether NEW UK oil and gas fields should be opened.
When push comes to shove the BBC is just another state propaganda broadcaster who used to do a better job at hiding its true role.
I have to say it’s quite sad that all independence supporters seem to do these days is slag off the English/England/Westminster/the UK PM/the BBC, etc. It appears it’s all they have left.
ReplyDeleteNobody can put forward a case for independence, and certainly not an economic case. It just seems to be independence at all costs , and to hell with the consequences! For a lot of people their desire for independence seems driven by a hatred/dislike for England and the English. This attitude, of course, puts a lot of people off independence, and certainly won’t convert undecideds and soft No voters.
A few days ago I challenged Scot Goes Poppers to give me the so called “benefits of Indy”, but got virtually no response, other than personal abuse.
Says it all!
Norway's 2.3 trillion dollar wealth fund says it all. The cost of being controlled by Westminster or as economists would say the opportunity cost if Scotland had any choice. We don't have a choice do we. Westminster just closes any business/operation it wants in Scotland and helps itself to Scotland's resources. England has been looting Scotland of its resources since 1707 and then Britnats say we are too poor too wee too stupid. It's the people who live in Scotland and expect Westminster to care about Scotland and Scots who are stupid. They don't care about Scotland. They use it as a dumping ground for nuclear waste and use their control of the media in Scotland to keep people misinformed.
DeleteAnd the benefits of being run by Westminster are what?. Though I must admit Holyrood is making a pigs lug of most things too. Glasgow, sanctuary city. How’s that panning out ae and the way things are going it won’t be long till Scotland is a sanctuary country aided and abetted by the SNP.
DeleteSo, no “benefits of Indy” from anon@9:54!
DeleteUsual nonsense from Ifs@9:43.
KC no answer to my post but just silly abuse. The Norwegians won't think its nonsense to have a sovereign wealth fund of 2.3 trillion dollars rather than be chained to and controlled by a Westminster with a debt just below £3 trillion at end of July. This debt has increased from £0.8 trillion in 2010 to the near £3 trillion 16 years later. So despite Cameron's austerity years and the current cost of living crisis the UK ( England ) is racking up the debt at a rate that shows the UK is a failing state. England is going down and taking us with them. Or we could have been like Norway and be a very wealthy country. But hey the Britnat KC tells you we are better together. What a sick joke.
DeleteOh dear Ifs, I’ve rattled your cage this morning!
DeleteI’ve made several very valid points regarding independence, numerous times over the past week or so, which nobody has addressed! Just personal abuse and disgraceful anti English stuff.
I’ve got better things to do today than repeat them once again, and argue with you! We’ll leave it at that.
In the words of the great Sir Winston Churchill, on VE Day,
Advance Britannia
God save the King.
Anon at 9.54 am .... migration and the housing of migrants is reserved to Westminster. Nothing to do with the SNP.
DeleteKC “has better things to do” bye bye KC don’t hurry back.
DeleteThe BBC in Scotland must be furious that despite all that investment in Sarwar since 2021 the voters in Glasgow didn't elect him in his FPTP seat. The product being sold to the voters was dodgy so I am not surprised that didn't work. All this recent Glasgow negativity is the BBC getting its revenge.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC Britnat journalists trashing the place they work and live in.
DeleteEmbarrassing comment from Ifs@10:06.
DeleteOh dear!
Benefits from being an independent country. Ask Norway the same question or any other country really. We have a population of about 5.5 million with 2/3 the land mass of England with most of the natural resources of the so called UK here in Scotland and if we get our arses in gear and use these resources to the benefit of the people in Scotland, see Norway, do you honestly think that Scotland is too poor or too wee to run our own affairs.
DeleteIFSY the pretendy Indy guy trashing the only party in a position to progress Indy.
DeleteAnon@10:48am,
DeleteThe chances of a Chinese tourist capturing a photo of Nessie with his head above the surface of Loch Ness are higher than you lot ever getting your independence!
Anon Britnat at 11.01am happy that Sturgeon’s gang trashed the SNP. If you have been paying attention on SGL you will have seen that the poster who calls me IFSY posts nothing but abuse. Not a word on any subject. Just abuse of other posters. KC is the obvious Britnat on SGP this anon is one as well. He posts NOTHING advocating independence.
DeleteKC shows his complete disdain for more than 50% of the population of Scotland by calling us " you lot".
DeleteMarcia at 9.15am used to call me a Unionist back in the years 2020/21. She disnae now because I have been proven correct about Sturgeon and her gang. It's not me who has damaged the SNP and Scottish independence it's the people who blindly supported her.
Ifs,
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Don’t tell me you’re one of the gullible fools who take Find Out Now polls for the National seriously!
KC. Once. Twice. Three times a lady. A fine Great British lady cycling past the duck pond on the village green on her way to evensong. Living her Great British dream of Merrie Englande.
DeleteAnd baring her arse to the world.
YouGov Westminster voting intention field work 23 -24 Aug, population sample 2,380.
ReplyDeleteRefUK 23% (-1), Lab 22% (n/c), Con 20% (+1), LibDem 13% (+1), Green 13% (n/c).
Scottish sub-sample (207)
Con 7%, Lab 20%, LibDem 6%, SNP 29%, RefUK 21%, Green 11%, Restore 5%.
Dearie me, Restore Britain one percent behind the LibDems. Someone should take the computer aff grandpa before Fascistbook totally rots his brain.
Right on
DeleteI stroke my nipple with a raspberry ripple.
DeleteRaspberry because it's red. Like my socialist beliefs.
We'll keep the red flag flying in Morningside.
Anon @ 11:01
ReplyDeleteIn 1916, how many supporters of nascent, nano-party, Sinn Féin were told to:
“Hold the course, put your faith in the Irish Parliamentary Party. I know it looks like they’ve settled into a comfortable life at Westminster, but they’re just biding their time for the big moment.
Trust John Redmond, he has a cunning plan so secret that he can’t divulge it to humble foot soldiers like us.”.
Six years later, marked by failure, and inaction, the Irish Parliamentary Party dissolved.
The BBC Scotland bias that really struck me was when the reporter didn't refer to the Tory health spokesman as 'Doctor' despite him being a practicing GP, but the SNP interviewee was 'Doctor' in the most fawning terms, despite not having practiced medicine for a decade. And when this was pointed out by the GP no apology / correction was forthcoming. I don't think that would happen on Radio 4.
ReplyDeleteDearie me, the SNPee below 30%!
ReplyDeleteBBC, as that brilliant and proper investigative journalist John Pilger rightly stated -
ReplyDelete"The BBC acts as a powerful arm of the British establishment and a refined global propaganda service".
He was spot on.
A British Pravda.
From allowing Bitter Together to actually use part of a BBC premises to spout its lying, fearmongering propaganda-bile at Scots in 2014, to framing almost every single narrative as if the 'precious union' was the norm, when in fact it is a complete outlier globally and BBC presenters literally spitting venom at some Pro-Indy advocates in so-called 'neutral interviews', that organisation certainly lived up to its charter promise to maintain the union.
No wonder poor wee yoonies love it.
Without it and the almost totally union-biased Scottish/UK Press, Scotland would have chosen independence 12 years ago - and they know it.
Oh dear!
DeleteA desperate individual who still can’t accept its game over for “Indy”.
Couldn't agree more.
DeleteThere is a reason that WM rigorously controls national broadcasting and completely refuses to devolve it.
They know its power and are absolutely terrified of losing that power to hugely influence the voting public..
If Scotland had had a decent, almost evenly split national broadcaster and written press in 2014, to more accurately reflect both sides of the Indy debate, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Scotland would have voted Yes and become an independent country.
WM routinely stack the deck in its favour in every way it can and that most definitely includes its use of the national broadcaster.
The UK is a fake union. Scotland is England's de facto colony. There is no real democracy in Scotland it is fake. Scotland's MPs will always be overruled by England's MPs. Scotland's vote in a critical referendum, the EU, can just be ignored. If Westminster disnae like something from Holyrood it just overrules it. This is not democracy it is subservience, subjugation and humiliation. It sure ain't no consensual union. It never was from the start. If this is a family of nations then it was a forced marriage where Scotland gets screwed decade after decade century after century. What have the SNP done over the last 12 years to remedy this situation - NOTHING.
ReplyDeleteAch there's always the ATLS !
DeleteIfS takes a lot of abuse on here but I very rarely disagree with any of his views regarding the SNP or independence for Scotland.
DeleteWhat have you done? You are on record here confirming that you have never staffed an Indy stand, knocked a door, handed out a leaflet or canvassed. And your comments are not your ideas. They are pretty much copy and paste from PJB and a few others with strong opinions and good knowledge of the Colony issue. You have none. Your hatred of N S and the SNP is well known. I’ll repeat the question. What have you done?
DeleteWhat has the SNP done to further the cause of independence post Alex Salmond
DeleteAnon at 4.47. Not a lot, but two sources of inactivity do not cancel each other out.
DeleteIfs, you don’t half spout some nonsense!
DeleteI mean, “de facto colony”! LOL.
The vast majority of the Scottish people will have no clue what you’re prattling on about!
Dear oh dear.
Anon Britnat troll at 4.38pm. I know what you do on SGP. You post a load of lies about me. That is your only contribution on SGP.
DeleteI have said many times on SGP that you lie that I am “on record here” da de da de da. Tiresome lying troll.
I see now you have been racking your brain and come up with another lie. My words are my own unless I put them in “ “ . I do not and never have read PJB.
I have told you before I don’t hate the SNP I want the SNP to change its leadership. You don’t because you are a Britnat. I don’t even hate Sturgeon. She is a crook and should be held to account. On the other hand you clearly hate me for pushing for independence on SGP.
Listen up Britnat anon I don’t answer to Britnats like you who are pretty despicable characters. It’s sad that you get triggered so quickly when I post on SGP but I do find Britnats are not keen on my posts. My advice to you - watch your blood pressure.
Anon at 4.18pm I do take a lot of abuse on SGP but they are mostly ignorant bullies hiding behind the anon crowd. They will not stop me giving my opinion. Most of them would be happy in any extreme authoritarian state that suppresses free speech.
DeleteKC you said you had better things to do. You didnae stay away long did you. You weren’t missed.
DeleteIFSY at 5.22. No answer then? You have done SFA for Indy you pathetic wee troll.. And you are on record saying it. Do you deny it? Your past doesn't go away.
DeleteAnonymous@11.11pm out of interest what have you done for independence?
DeleteAnon Britnat troll at 11.11pm has NEVER denied he is a Britnat troll. Unlike KC he is the sneaky type that tries to kid on he supports independence but all he does is post abuse on SGP. Like KC when you answer him he then kids on you haven’t answered him in a subsequent post. They are both cut from the same nasty lying Britnat cloth.
DeleteWell Ifs, you’ve certainly got out the wrong side of the bed this morning!
DeleteI’m afraid nobody on here, yourself included, have addressed my question properly. A question I’ve asked repeatedly for the last week or so, namely what are these so called “benefits of Indy”, that people on here keep going on about? The only response I’ve had is abuse. Pretty sad I’m sure you’ll agree!
Also of course, the really important issues regarding independence, the issues that really matter to Scots, have never been addressed in a satisfactory way. They weren’t addressed in 2014, and still haven’t been! For example, border with our biggest trading partner by far(England), currency, pensions(a big big issue for older voters, replacing the billions we receive from Westminster every year through the Barnett Formula, etc, etc. I could go on, but you get my point!
Come on Ifs, the stage is yours!
If no satisfactory response is received, from yourself or anyone else, I shall, like many others, come to the obvious conclusion that the desire for independence, for most, is driven through a hatred or at the very least a dislike for England/the English/Westminster/the BBC.
Seriously, if the points I’ve made above can’t be addressed properly, what hope do you have of converting undecideds and soft No voters regarding independence?
DeleteIf KC is Westminsters best man then they are in big trouble.
DeleteGood laugh over on WOS. A moronic video statement by a Labour politician. Usual lies and disinformation but there is a pile in by one of his half wits who immediately assumed it was the SNP and started slagging them off. Campbell must love these muppets. Kerrching.
ReplyDeleteDoes that make you halfwit for visiting his site and reading the comments
DeleteThe Britnat troll at 4.58pm condemns anyone reading or mentioning WOS but regularly reads and comments about it on SGP.
DeleteThe old double standards and hypocrisy of a Britnat.
Nopes. Got me beat this one
DeleteYou keep an eye on the opposition you morons. How much money have you given Campbell? Be truthful now. Interesting that you clearly support Campbell and his cretins. Kerrching.
DeleteMore to the point is , how much money I’ve given over the years to the SNP including the ring fenced referendum money for absolutely hee haw towards said goal. Not a penny or a second of my time ever again till there’s a clear out of the charlatans, grifters, liars and the perjury ridden alphabeties at the top of the SNP at this moment
DeleteWhere’s Nicola?
DeleteWhere's Joanna. ?
DeleteWhere's Felicity?
DeleteWhere's Enid?
DeleteWhere's Senga?
DeleteIs this an SNP site or a missing persons site?
DeleteIn September 2004, Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, formerly Steven Demetre Georgiou was on a scheduled passenger flight to New York when it was diverted to Bangor, Maine. Yusuf was detained by officers of the Department of Homeland Security.
ReplyDeleteYusuf was on his way to work with Dolly Parton.
Big problem! Dolly picked up the phone to phone phoney cowboy and cretinous President of the United States, George W Bush.
Oh to have been the switchboard operator at the White House that night.
God / Allah bless you Dolly, you’ll be fair missed.
Cat Stevens was a twat. Refusing to shake hands with a woman and halloweened up like a villager from the Wakhan Corridor rather than a rather well-to-do Londoner. What a arsehole.
Deleteother examples of bbc clear bias is when the fable was invented by Carmichael then SoSS along with The Tory newspapers and bbc came in not to interrogate the sources of the lies - they already knew what was happening but went out on live TV to promulgate the lies. One of many disgraceful episodes which the NUJ keep their mouths tightly shut.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the SNP currently doing to progress towards Independence? It has lost it’s previously justified claim to competent government, and although it still outperforms the rest of the U K in terms of NHS, Education, and Social Care provision, being the best of a poor lot isn’t really a good basis to continue offering them support. Labour is a busted flush in Scotland for the foreseeable future and the Burnham bounce failed to materialise. The tories/Reform/Restore continue tearing each other apart. Lib Dem? What direction is the wind blowing? The benefits of Independence should be front and centre in everything the S G does but it’s nowhere to be seen. Is this current SNP/SG the modern version of a parcel o rogues? Discussion please, not knee jerk reaction and vitriol for daring to criticise.
ReplyDelete“The benefits of independence should be front and centre…………”
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See my post above, replying to Ifs.
What are these so called “benefits of independence”?
I’ve been asking the question for days now, but am still awaiting an answer. Probably all I’ll get once again is abuse though!
Off you go you silly billy. The question is not are there benefits. The question is why the SNP/SG do not have them front and centre. Do you struggle with basic comprehension?
DeleteJust the sort of pathetic response I was expecting from the hapless numpty@9:40am!
DeleteSurely Ifs can do better!
You are a tedious little man, and got the response you deserve. Now jog on back to your Daily Express.
Delete10.55am why is KC a little man but ifs is a wee man? Is that you subconsciously showing more respect to KC? How tall are you? Do your pals say big man how’s it going? Or do they say wee man you are a right pain in the arse? I’ m doing some research work on sociopaths for my degree so your answer will be very useful. Thank you for your attention.
DeleteAnon at 11.06. Oh dear not very good are you. You need to make it credible and a cretin like you isn’t getting near a degree level course. Stick to face paints and potato shapes.
DeleteWhy are so many people on SGP incredibly rude. That reply was uncalled for 3.19pm. I’m beginning to think there are a few sociopaths posting on SGP. I think I have found a good research opportunity.
DeleteWestminster wants to start a war with Russia when it has a near £3 trillion debt and a lot of its citizens cannae afford to keep warm in winter. In Scotland people cannae afford to keep warm in spring and autumn never mind winter. The price cap going up once again in October. Any schemes introduced by Westminster to help with high energy bills gives the same level of support to people in the Isle of Wight and the Shetland isles despite the regular 10 to 15 degree temperature difference. England will always favour the English. Yet they are happy to give themselves the extra pay called the London allowance because it more expensive in London. It disnae work the other way when something is more expensive in Scotland.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to the great Labour Party promise of thousands of jobs in Scotland with their GB Energy company. Just a scam to get votes just as Sturgeon did with her promise of a Scottish energy company back in 2017.
Scotland a nation with a massive bounty of oil/gas and its land and seas being covered in wind farms and electricity pylons to send electricity down to England. They also want to cover Scotland in nuclear reactors to create more electricity to send down to England. We get the blight on our land and seas to feed England’s need for electricity and carry the risk of a mini Chernobyl disaster. We have no say in this because we are England’s de facto colony.
Not the case in independent Norway who make decisions to benefit Norwegians. They don’t let Sweden control them and help themselves to Norway’s resources.
Why would any sane person want to be ruled by Westminster when you can look at independent neighbours who have a far superior standard of living and are not keen to send its young people to die in pointless foreign wars.
The British army has a track record of sending its Scottish regiments in to battle first to deplete the enemies ammunition.
When the Britnats say WE are better together. The WE means England.
This can best be described as utter drivel!
DeleteAye KC is insane.
DeleteBritnat troll at 9.40 am says why do the SNP/SG not have the benefits of independence “front and centre”. They don’t want independence that’s why. It’s so obvious that they are devolutionists. Swinney happy to do his time to retire with a nice FM pension and write a book of excuses explaining why couldnae do this or that and why Salmond was a bad man. It will not be a top seller. I don’t think he will retire to London unless he also decides to say he is a non binary and fancies a bit of the action in London like Sturgeon.
ReplyDeleteIfs just lies
DeleteBritnat troll at 9.40 am says why do the SNP/SG not have the benefits of independence “front and centre”. They don’t want independence that’s why. It’s so obvious that they are devolutionists. Swinney happy to do his time to retire with a nice FM pension and write a book of excuses explaining why couldnae do this or that and why Salmond was a bad man. It will not be a top seller. I don’t think he will retire to London unless he also decides to say he is a non binary and fancies a bit of the action in London like Sturgeon.
ReplyDeleteI've had anough of this argo jargo
DeleteIfS's contribution to Scotland's is ? Take your time.
ReplyDeleteAre you a wee Britnat or a big Britnat or something in between?
DeleteAnon 12.40 Come on IfS, yer insults - numpty & Britnat - are becoming threadbare.
Delete1.35pm you forgot to mention nicophant.
DeleteOn planet IFS, the word 'nicophant' must be used in every message as a sign of humour and wit rivalling Oscar Wilde.
DeleteCome on anon you forgot plonker, that has been used quite a lot recently.
DeleteImelda Fountain-Scrunch
DeleteOn the ball as usual. 100% correct
ReplyDeletepa that was meant for IfS. Just talks common sense and the reality of the state Scotlands in at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years back ifs kept complaining that anons were always responding to his posts but everyone knew he was ifs. The lack of understanding on ifs part was illuminating
ReplyDelete1.49pm read your post again it makes no sense. What was being illuminated? Try finishing the sentence and then have a second go at posting before ifs pops up to call you a numpty.
DeleteAnon at 2.41. He is making the point that IFSy thought he was fooling everyone by posting as an anon agreeing with and supporting his own posts. He still does it. Numpty, nicophant and Britnat. Classic IFSy.
DeleteAnon@2.41pm here. Thanks 3.16pm for that clarification. Why do you call ifs IFSy. Is he a professional footballer or a friend of yours? You seem to admire him when you say classic IFSy.
DeleteIs this the same anon talking to each other. See it’s easy done ae
Deleteps IfS is still brilliant
ReplyDeleteOr is the the same anon replying to themselves. That makes more sense but nae doot yi ken whit a mean
DeleteBREAKING NEWS
ReplyDeletePresident Zelensky of Ukraine has announced he wants ex First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon to be the new Head of Ukraine’s anti corruption department. Zelensky stated that he had looked far and wide and decided they was the best man for job. The President stated that they had considerable experience of corruption in high office in Edinburgh, Scotland which would play an important part in safeguarding the billions of pounds of monies received from across the world.
Ms Sturgeon stated they was delighted to take up this great opportunity and was looking forward to relocating to Ukraine to help them remain an independent country. They quickly added that they would not be going anywhere near the front line to fight Putin but it was still a new and exciting challenge. No ring fenced donations in this gig they laughed. You can only drink so much Sauvignon blanc and cream cakes in Nottinghill. As they departed Sturgeon was heard gently singing the ABBA hit Money Money.
Does someone have a substance abuse problem, leading to unfunny postings?
Delete6.07pm is your comment funny?
DeleteGreat stuff but in Scotland facts are stranger than fiction so it may well be true
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