Wings Over Scotland

Socts will never get a job on the BBC from now on.

Sensibly put, and simply illustrating the inherent bias thereof.

We know that is what happens, but, somehow it seems worse when someone speaks of personal experience. It is discrimination. It is undemocratic. It is also the proof that the Beeb is nothing more than a unionist tool, an establishment propaganda loudhailer.

I saw RT described as “Kremlin backed RT” today. Oh, the irony. From now on, instead of referring to the Beeb as the state broadcaster, I am going to call it “Westminster/UK government backed BBC”.

Well there’s a surprise!

Anyone with a background in supporting Scottish independence is person non grata on the British Propaganda Broadcasting Corp.

Any semblance and I DO mean ANY semblance of impartiality by the BSPC has now quite clearly been blown clear out the water!

I actually have no problem with there being an email (hopefully some whizz kid will find it or a conscientious objector will leak it). This is the BBC, it is only to be expected, why on earth would they possibly allow voices to be channelled through their network that undermines Britain??

What I do have a problem with is that this is beginning to happen in normal businesses. These BBC executive fuckwits sit at dinners with business executive fuckwits and they brag and exaggerate and solidify their position.

Then it filters down. I personally know of two managers, poles apart, and the competent one has no chance achieving the next step in his career path because the business knows his politics. The Unionist fuckwit manager though, believe me, he’s shooty in.

Maybe one day all of this will change, but time is not our friend and the Yes movement, thus far, is too damned polite.

First they came for the people marked with a Christmas tree, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t marked with a Christmas tree…

The britnat bbc doesn’t care anymore about hiding its anti-Scottish agenda. Don’t give them money.

Poor Jackie, Louise, Gary etc. They must be quaking in their boots by now. When there’s no BBC Scotland gravy train what are they going to do? The new EBC won’t want them and they’ll be toxic for any new Scottish broadcaster. Hope their pensions are worth the effort they put in to denigrate Scotland for so long.

Don’t pay the licence fee. You won’t miss the daily dross I promise.

Ian it was part of the YES East Kilbride Celebrities for Yes event at the weekend. Filmed by Indylive.
Was lots on twitter about it.

Ian Brotherhood,

Hardeep Singh Kohli describes being placed on the BBC’s blacklist of independence-supporting commentators at a meeting of Yes East Kilbride, 18 April 2018.

An alert reader, me.
😉

Meanwhile OFCOM are investigating RT, the “Russian State Broadcaster” on 7 complaints of showing bias.

Scotland pays £320 m per year to the Westminster Government for lies and mendacity on their shoddy propaganda outlet.

But you can’t complain to OFCOM about the BBC. You have to first exhaust the lengthy Kafkaesque BBC complaints procedure. If you live long enough, you may be able to take your complaint to OFCOM. At any time, the BBC could curtail OFCOMs investigation by writing you a letter of apology.

You can look all this up on their respective websites but it would be a soul destroying waste of energy.

Watch any other news organisation while you can. Westminster is determined to ban RT. Their Saudi friends are determined to ban Al Jazeera.

Scotland is completly deprived of a broadcasting service that is fit for purpose. With our £320 m we could produce something infinitely better.

Of course the BBC would reply that Hardeep’s not popular anymore so we can’t use him for that reason so he’s griping

We see it every day even with folk who previously claimed they were pro Independence then they make a couple of appearances on the BBC or STV and their tone has altered and somewhat softened on Independence and even begin to criticise it claiming they’re only trying to be objective

They’ve been bought for the thirty pieces, and you know what that makes them?……………

Yes! those are the very words

Unionists, if they can’t partition countries they’ll partition people, or buy them, or discredit them, or deport them, or kill them, or any combination of all those things

OMG. Although you know it to be the case, when you here it first hand like that it really does make you sick.

I have nothing but the utmost respect for people who put their political beliefs before their career.

This is the sad reality of where we are in politically in Scotland. I have said it many times before, but if the SNP cannot come up with a way to deal with the overwhelming weight of the British Biased State and State media, winning our children’s right for a better future is going to be an uphill struggle.

Is Leslie Riddoch’s name not on the same list?

“Oh NO! Davey’s talkin’ politics again!”

link to youtube.com

Could we not just all send Leslie Riddoch a tenner a month and let her set up an SBC to do this job properly?

They (…the BBC) do not care a jot that we are aware of the email blacklist. The unionist control the media and nothing will ever be reported on the topic except on Indy supporting sites.

The arrogance of the BritNat machine is boundless. Did this really surprise anyone?
They know that the dice is loaded in their favour by design.

I think we should be making up our own blacklist – of those who will never again be able to find work in the media after we gain our independence. It would also be worthwhile keeping a record of the perpetrators of the biggest lies and omissions for possible prosecution post independence. Lets fight fire with fire – at least it might make some of these shysters feel a little less comfortable in their snakeskins.There has to be some retribution when this is all over.

Unfortunately, however galling it is to have pro-Indy celebrities snubbed by the BBC, just spare a thought for all the programs being snubbed, all the program makers being snubbed, all the script and screenwriters being snubbed, all the pro Indy media material being snubbed, all the Indy sentiment and encouragement from abroad being snubbed, all the pro Indy events being ignored, all the pro Scotland news being ignored.

Are you angry yet?

ARE YOU YES YET?

Shocked? No. Angry? Yes.

I think what is truly shocking in all of this, is that their are sane people, working at pathetic quay, who KNOW about all of this ,but DO NOT SPEAK OUT. They are complicit in having one half of the Scottish population suppressed, and in perpetuating the ‘England knows best’ mythology.

Is it not time they spoke up, and IF they really fear for their jobs, maybe they might consider leaking the documents and blacklists.

This really is quite intolerable. The BBC is now a propagandist leech in Scotland, bleeding our country of its life blood, pumping out anti-Scotland lies on a daily basis, to ACTIVELY DECEIVE the people of Scotland.

Today’s BBC propaganda about how the SNP did NOT use Cambridge analytica is a prime example. The REAL story is that the tories did and the SNP didn’t. Watch the journalists paid liars on the BBC however, and you will think that it is the SNP that was caught red-handed – ‘exposed’ by Ruth Davidson.

The BBC are liars. Those who choose to work for them are ACTIVE participants in the deliberate running down of anything good in Scotland. It is time they were all held to account. ‘I’m merely doing my job’, is simply not an acceptable excuse anymore.

It is now a well established fact, the BBC are propagandist liars, working on behalf of Westminster, and against the best interests of Scotland.

Jeez, Rape Clause Ruth Davidson, named in Time magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.

So called historian Niall Ferguson gives her a glowing report in the magazine.

Unionidt backing slapping at work.

link to archive.is

Time magazine does their reputation no good over this one.

It’s charming how Navid thinks the bbc has ‘transmuted’ into a state broadcaster.

Schrodingers cat. Yes agree, the unionist media will still be there, but so would the other side of the story on a truly Scottish channel. Look at the way the American establishment were freaking out about RT recently… and look at how RT have made a huge dent in their lies about Skripal-gate and Syria.

@ Dr Jim who wrote “They’ve been bought for the thirty pieces”,

or maybe they’ve been blackmailed! Made an offer they couldn’t refuse!
Have a look here to see how the british state recruited informants during the troubles in NI

“Any minor infraction– shop-lifting, a mistress, cross-dressing – of the social and legal mores of the time could have been used as leverage, considering the prevailing mentality and the fear of being shamed before the community.

“Ingram” affirmed, “a free-spending wife, or an accident in a third-party-only insured vehicle, were common starting points for an approach.”
Yet, perhaps more disturbingly, such problems may have been fashioned by the security services to facilitate an approach”.

link to eurofree3.wordpress.com

Maybe similar mechanisms are at work in “turning” apparently convinced Scottish nationalists

Any one else having problems getting on to The National site tonight – trying to read the article about the Continuity bill but can’t open the page.

@Brian McHugh

The SNP don’t have enough money to run a 24 hour news channel. If you want it to look professional it costs a fortune, more than the whole BBC Scotland budget. ITV pulled out of this market due to the cost, Sky use it as a loss leading advert for its subscription service.

You can do something on the cheap, but if it looks amateurish it would damage the SNP rather than help.

Hanish Henderson was banned from appeaaing on any BBC broadcast for YEARS

People can get £1000 for a personal speaking appearance to YES and other groups. Blogs. They can actually make a better living/income from freelancing. Instead of appearing on the BBC which no one watches any more. So being pro Indy could in fact be a positive rather than negative. With a wider audience overall. Alex Salmond is on RT. It is broadcast worldwide to a wider audience. Things could change quite soon. People remember loyalty. Being on the side of right could guarantee a bright future.

Professional speakers could be earning more being pro Indy than unionist. Limited employment and not too bright futures for union speakers or politicians.

Brian McHugh

agreed, the reach of altenative media is growing but the bbc and the rest of the msm are still a powerful medium.

also, interms of social media, YES can compete there, indeed, i would say we lead the way over the britnat media which needs to employ people to tweet etc.

but we do need to recognise that in traditional media stakes, the britnats still have and will have an advantage over us.

but we are not without our own advantages, we have an army of footsoldiers and activist that the britnats can only dream of. we need to use this resource to the best advantage possible

Apologies for the error. Meant to say *cosy jobs and lives

Being unusually optimistic for me, I think the media game is all to play for.

If you think where YES started and where YES finished in the Campaign back in 2014, you can skew that perspective and look at where the BBC’s reputation was in 2014 and where it is now.

Back in 2014 you hardly dared express the word “bias” for fear the media and BBC would jump down your throat with self righteous indignation and well scripted counter arguments. “How dare you attack the noble BBC”…. Both Alex Salmond and Blair Jenkins ducked out of the direct bias question… Those were the days when people were writing complaints to the BBC Trust. The equivalent of Mrs Trellis of North Wales poking it with a stick.

Move forward 4 years, and look at the reputation of the BBC now. It’s a laughing stock. It is the living caricature of a State Propaganda Channel. It is the Pravda of our time. The effect has been pernicious, and time has done its work. A little lie that nobody would have noticed in 2014 is now picked up in a Tweet that’s shared. A lot more people a tuning in to what’s going on, and the more tuned in they become, the more BBC skullduggery they find. These days many more of us cannot sit in earshot of the BBC news without squirming in painful discomfort. That wasn’t happening in 2014, or at least happened much less.

I don’t know how you measure the actual effectiveness of propaganda. What can you use as a yardstick? But I rather suspect these days the BBC would really struggle to get a smear story to stick. Their Unionist audience will lap it up of course, as ever, but the cynicism and skepticism will kick in much earlier too. An obvious hatchet job is now met with acerbic derision which the BBC increasingly cannot duck.

The BBC shot its bolt in 2014. But now, perhaps we are seeing the sweet irony that the BBC is way, way, out on a limb when it comes to undermining the very Union it is frothing at the mouth trying to save. Frankly, I can’t think of a more fitting epitaph for both.

The total and utter lies that Davidson knowingly is telling about SCL and Cambridge Analytica are a total and utter disgrace. She is on oath required to tell the truth and she is lying through her teeth. The smirking cohorts are an appalling disgrace. Can nothing be done about the lies they are telling? A court action? A Police complaint. No coincidence an ex BBC employee.

fngw says:
19 April, 2018 at 7:34 pm
@Brian McHugh

The SNP don’t have enough money to run a 24 hour news channel. If you want it to look professional it costs a fortune, more than the whole BBC Scotland budget. ITV pulled out of this market due to the cost, Sky use it as a loss leading advert for its subscription service.

You can do something on the cheap, but if it looks amateurish it would damage the SNP rather than help.

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i agree with this but would also add that even if we did pile millions into a new station, or convince channel 4 to relocate and back indy, old habits die hard, while it would even things up a bit, it could take decades to convince bbc veiwers to change channels. there isnt the time

unfortunately we need to recognise that we will be up against this.

however, while we should continue to critise them at every opportunity, perhaps once indyref2 kicks off we should consider some of the nuclear options available, eg, refuse to do interviews, nicola to throw the bbc out of holyrood, launch a legal action against the bbc or mount a boycott the bbc campaign. etc. we dont have to win, we just need to fight.
we need to sow seeds of doubt into the population about the bbc. this is how you do it

I have always been against such nuclear options such as, the snp mps walking out of WM, not because i dont think this is a valid tactic but because it is a use once only tactic. but indyref2 is the end game folks, if ever there was a time to play for keeps, this is it.
nothing should be off the table

Breeks says:

BBC Pravda

that is a meme that should be used by everyone. the oaps will recognise what is meant by this immediately

Remember very many of those who voted NO and will vote NO again don’t pay for their TV licence

Over 75s are free, Sheltered housing around £7 to £12, Care homes free

It’s kinda funny really that most of those who voted YES are subsidising many of the NO voters to watch the TV that’s working against the YES voters

When I say funny you know I don’t mean Ha Ha

Ooops

“Domain Name thenational.scot
Registry Domain ID D10002-SCOT
Update Date 2018-04-19T16:05:44.414Z
Creation Date 2014-11-07T16:49:14.411Z
Registry Expiry Date 2018-11-07T16:49:14.411Z ”

might take a couple of hours, .scot doesn’t seem to be as well supported as dot coms or dot co uk.

jfnjw

agreed, money could be spent better elsewhere

however, we should continue to highlight the bias at every opportunity, indeed, legal action, demonstrations, petitions boycot campaigns etc could be a more aggresive for of opposition. lets face it, we are now angy enough, also, distrust of bbc pravda in 2014, was limited to scotland, not anymore
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The voters we need to target don’t watch 24 hours news channels,
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the voters we need to target are the oaps, we do this by face to face, 1-2-1, doorstep canvasing. i dont know how else we can target these voters. that is why i am pushing the idea of getting the postman to deliver our leaflets and asking the yes groups to focus entirely on canvasing

in indyref1, the only canvasing BT did (or had the man power to do) was by targeting the very old and infirm. They knew exactly which door to knock on, no badges or flags or big foam hands, dark suits and ties were the order of the day, and they lied and terrorised these people.

I know, i was there, i saw……. and it worked.

“Registry Expiry Date 2018-11-07”

I read that at 2017-04-07.

Should have gone to sepecsavers.

personal anecdote time coming up –
hamish henderson was a life-long personal friend of my dad’s.
According to my dad they were friends from even before WWII and my dad certainly knew a lot about Hamish’s personal background.
My dad showed me a photie of them on a walking holiday in the glens of Antrim – late 40’s I would say, long before i was born.
My father said his feet killed him at the end of each day’s hiking.
Hamish was unsympathetic “Get handmade boots like mine!” he said.
My father did for their next outing!

I do remember Hamish coming to stay with us for a few days when i was about 6 or 7. First time i had ever seen a man wearing a kilt!
Driving an open-top sorta sports car!
My mother said he was totally uncaring of what the neighbours or any one else thought about what he did. (we lived in a pretty prissy neighbourhood). he certainly never did anything illegal – but he created a stir wherever he went –
I never knew until i was much older that he was such an important man in Scotland and the left movement generally

Scotland’s Apartheid Media. Right there in one clip.

ayemachrihanish says:
19 April, 2018 at 9:28 pm
please for once let’s stop this (navel gazing halfarsed let’s not pay our TV license) discussion….

He has
(a) been discriminated against by a media organisation because of his political opinion and
(b) illegally blacklisted.

CAN WE STOP TALKING. AND USE THE LAW! YES THE LAW!!
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agreed, im angey enough, maybe it is time we started to fight back? maybe it is time to get medievel on their arses?

i said that we need to accept they will be a force standing against us, i never said we shouldnt hold them to account

Mr Kohli’s star was on the rise pre 2014 I noticed. He was gradually getting more gigs in print and televisual media. Then boom. Nada, nothing. A bloody disgrace. Don’t pay the yoon telly tax.

@ Dr Jim, don’t go to Unionist funerals! 🙂

ben madigan

genuine thanks for sharing that with me 🙂

Get ready for tomorrows headlines, apparently OFCOM have declared Alex Salmond show tweets not from audience. Let’s hope OFCOM don’t check every TV how that uses tweets as they will probably find this is a widespread practise. A producer wants a particular topic raised and lo and behold a tweet will turn up. Broadcasting is full of fakery, that’s just how it works.

Pretty much how QT works also, they will decide the subjects they want to cover. Someone in the audience is sure to have a question close that can be linked to it.

The UK Refused To Raid A Company Suspected Of Money Laundering, Citing Its Tory Donations;
link to archive.is

O/T
Brexit: DUP insists EU must help find solutions to Ireland border issue.

By David Hughes

April 19 2018

The DUP has told the European Union to accept its responsibility to find solutions after Donald Tusk issued a fresh warning to the UK that a transitional deal after Brexit will not happen unless problems over the Irish border are resolved.

European Council president Mr Tusk told MEPs that the UK had created the issue as a result of the Brexit vote and had a duty to find a solution.

Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Tusk said he welcomed the progress that had been made in the Brexit talks.

“We want to use the positive momentum in these negotiations to finally settle outstanding issues, such as the solution to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland,” he said.

In a message that the government could not simply leave it to the Irish and EU to decide what the customs arrangements at the border should be – as some Brexiteers have suggested – Mr Tusk said: “The UK’s decision on Brexit has caused the problem and the UK will have to help solve it.

“Without a solution, there will be no withdrawal agreement and no transition.

“Leaders will assess the negotiations in June. In parallel we will start our first talks about the future EU-UK relationship.”

Senior officials were meeting in Brussels to hold preliminary discussions about the future relationship for the first time.

Responding to Mr Tusk’s statement, DUP MEP Diane Dodds said the European Council President had “resorted to bully-boy tactics”.

“He may wish to wash his hands of the border issue but the reality is that the EU has joint responsibility alongside the UK Government to find pragmatic solutions to what are mutual challenges. It is high time Brussels established a practical, hands-on approach to these matters which to date has been glaringly absent,” she said.

“Although progress has been made on the terms of the Brexit implementation period, the DUP has made it clear that we have not passed the point of no return for a no deal scenario. The aggressive stance taken by Mr Tusk may grab headlines but it is not in the interests of a workable accommodation, nor does it reflect the economic interests of the Republic of Ireland.”

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said Mr Tusk’s comments must serve as a final wake-up call to the British Government on the Irish border.

He said: “Today’s statements in the European Parliament must bring an end to that cynical strategy. The comments from Donald Tusk couldn’t be clearer – the European Union are not bluffing. They are not bluffing on their commitment that there can be no hardening of the Irish border and they are not bluffing in saying that no deal will be done until this issue is resolved.

“The British Government are therefore left with only one choice. Either accept that a hard border in Ireland can only be avoided if the North remains in full alignment with the single market and customs union or come to the broader economic sense that all of the UK should remain in the customs union and single market.”

Former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Peter Hain said: “The government can no longer continue to duck the question of the Northern Ireland border. As Donald Tusk has made clear, lack of progress on this vital issue now threatens to blow apart the Brexit negotiations.

“The contradiction between not wanting a hard border and being outside of the Single Market and Customs Union has in no way been resolved. And more than a year since negotiations started, the government has offered no credible solutions.

“Ministers know they cannot deliver the Brexit that was promised, and that every Brexit outcome will leave us worse off, but they are refusing to be straight with people.”

Belfast Telegraph

link to belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Too much time and resources spent chasing middle-class votes, leaving many poorer areas un-canvassed, with too many then feeling left out and not voting – when these are the most likely to vote YES, as they are the ones that have been treated worst under successive UK Govts.

Whereas the posh areas, with more NO voters, get more resources wasted on them. As many there back the Union as a way of ensuring Tory tax cuts from WM for the wealthier.

For Galamcennalath:

link to youtube.com

Davey bangin’ again…

O/T

I am puzzled. Surely if a lady cites rape as a reason for a childbirth police action should follow?

So basically speaking the usual “we don’t want a YES vote” trolls have come up with its usual wheeze “Get more poor people to vote YES who mostly voted YES anyway, and ignore those middle-class selfish people, and concentrate on the poor who mostly voted YES anyway apart from some Labour and other voters, and concentrate also on those who didn’t vote last time and are unlikely to bother voting next time”.

While “it’s not worth persuading the selfish middle-class. Well, stats for the UK (and Scotland will be a little different), are and I couldn’t be bothered searching around to find Scottush ones:

link to journals.sagepub.com

Senior manager 6.3%
Traditional professional 4.8%
Modern professional 18.1%
Middle/Junior manager 6.7%
Intermediate 14.7%
Technical craft worker 10.6%
Semi-routine worker 15.3%
Routine worker 14.5%
Never worked 8.3%

So these disruptive people are saying “ignore 50.6% of the population, a fair number of whom did vote YES anyway”.

Yeah, right, LOSERS, like we’re going to get a YES vote that way.

Good to see Brillo heed getting his tatties on TW by Hitchens earlier. Just about came to blows.

@ Indy 2 who mentioned Brexit and the DUP
*friendly advice – never go full DUP retard!

The European Council President Donald Tusk warned Britain there will be no withdrawal agreement and no transition deal unless the problem of the border between Ireland and the UK is solved.
Speaking during a debate in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Tusk said: “The UK’s decision on Brexit has caused the problem, and the UK will have to solve it.”

The EU position is quite clear – The UK made the mess! Now clean it up!

DUP – Diane Dodds MEP from the DUP website (which i’m not citing here on principle)

‘Once again the European Council President Donald Tusk has resorted to bully-boy tactics. He may wish to wash his hands of the border issue but the reality is that the EU has joint responsibility alongside the UK Government to find pragmatic solutions to what are mutual challenges.

“the reality is that the EU has joint responsibility alongside the UK Government to find pragmatic solutions to what are mutual challenges”

Ben Madigan’s analysis:

1) The EU found a “pragmatic solution” i.e. the so-called back-stop.
Pity it doesn’t suit/please/delight/ the DUP, a tiny UK party which is holding Westminster up to ransom.

2) There are no “mutual challenges” and 3) There is no “joint responsibility”
The UK decided to Brexit – nobody forced it to- nobody tried to hinder its leaving – nobody tried to force it to stay. The UK itself asked for the Transition/Implementation period.
This is a one way street UK folks – you asked for it – you get it and everything that comes your way!

You would think if you’re supposed to be a free democratic country where broadcasting and a free press is the norm, that allowing another country to have the power to regulate and or devolve such a power would make normal thinking people wonder why such a power is felt necessary to withhold from such a democratic country

There are an awful lot of people in Scotland who don’t seem to notice that and yet they complain about other countries breaching human rights

Example: Most people in Scotland can mimic a passable English accent or American accent, why is that?
Answer: Because we’re bombarded by English programming from birth except for the odd token Taggart and only because that was successful, or Rab C Nesbitt and Still Game comedy parodies of Scottish drunken violence, which are great but that’s not Scotland

We are much much more, and the Westminster Bastirts know it
5 minutes of our own power in our own country would see us sail past England at speed and it would be good for them too, at least the English folk would start to notice what a terrible job successive governments they voted for have done for them because the press couldn’t keep that a secret for long

It’s funny to think some people will sit adding up fractions of percentages at 1am in the morning to try win a straw man argument.

But, if it keeps some people happy, I’m okay with that.
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I see the Health Secretary has now earned the epithet “Jonah” Robison in some areas of the MSM.

Not nice to call her personal names; I don’t agree with that at all. That’s too much like some of the bampot element found on social media and blogs with their bullying and slagging of people.

The lady deserves to be treated with respect, no slagged with silly names but, I still think Ms Shona Robison, the Health Secretary, ought to resign.

yesindyref2 @ 23:44,

My thoughts likewise. I’ve no objection whatever to people trying to garner votes from wherever and whoever they can, but some voters are evidently more easily convincable than others.

Those who wish to try to awaken the commonly self-disenfranchised – and typically those with the most to lose – have my full support, hard as it may be for them to succeed. Provided they actually do it – and do it effectively – and not just theorise about it online.

Disengagement is a very easy way of nullifying that particular section of society, as BT very well knew.

(And not just them either. Hence cereal woman.)

But to win anyone over at all, one has to understand how the other person thinks. Not just blather on and on too-often in a narrow and doctrinaire way about what the yesser thinks, in the futile hope that by some kind of magic osmosis it will all eventually sink in somehow.

(And often with the additional intention, it would seem, of changing people’s whole brand of geo-politics as well, as if indy wasn’t enough of a stretch already.)

Whereas in fact we would all be far better to stop preaching about everything under the sun and instead work to simply convince former no voters that an independent Scotland offers a decent place for them too, without demanding any investment in a new world order. The changes that will naturally flow from independence will be quite sufficient for all but an extreme minority anyway.

Whereas the present topic gives a far better handle on how to proceed. The revelation about the (alleged) discriminatory practices of the BBC, which is all too plausible, is a potential game-changer, IMO. This can really wake people up, and should be pursued to the hilt. The more people in Scotland can be made to see that they have been serially exploited and misled by an unfaithful UK state servant, the more likely it will be “game over”.

People don’t like being manipulated. This is the real story, not the little corporal’s manufactures over the SNP + Cambridge Analytica which is being eagerly pushed for all its worth at the moment by the real culprits.

Your name will also go on the list, what is it?
Don’t tell him Hardeep!

A man of deep integrity and conscience I believe. Not a bad storyteller either.

[Childhood chase in Glasgow, caught down a dead end street]
“Are ye Catholic or Prodisdent?”
[beat. Incredulous look to camera.]
“Whit?” [points casually to turban] “Eh, Ah’m a Sikh!”
“Aye bit are ye a Catholic Sikh or a Protestant Sikh?!”

Yay, The National’s back 🙂

Take em down Cliff! Best of luck and hope you show them up for what they are

Proud Cybernat says:

link to youtube.com

Davey bangin’ again…

Very good! 🙂

BBC: The Union at Any Cost
link to peterabell.blog

Davidson Must Answer To Tory Links With Cambridge Analytica;
link to paisleysmsp.org

Comprehensive A9 performance data published;
link to transport.gov.scot

Good Friday Agreement: why it matters in Brexit;
link to ukandeu.ac.uk

lONG READ: Dec 1, 2016. It’s been going on for years!
No Tears Left to Cry: Being Deported Is a Distressing Nightmare;
link to vice.com

Have a peaceful day, Wingers.

Colin Alexander,

I wish you would resign. Bye.

Good morning to you Smallaxe.

Regarding your last sentence , seems to me that Scotland has disgraceful poverty indeed in this very wealthy world of ours , everywhere you look has disgraceful poverty and the few wallow in disgraceful , obscene wealth.

Dorothy,

World’s eight richest people have the same wealth as poorest 50%;
link to archive.is

BBC has always had a blacklist. Some of Scotlands best known folksingers were never allowed on BBC as they were judged to be to political, or to Communist or for what ever reason suited the Beeb at the time.

Starlaw I remember the late Hamish Imlach telling me he was often invited to play at works dances etc. Only to find the gig later cancelled because the employers found he was “on the list” He said at the time it was a Glasgow firm that operated the list and it was used by most big employers. Including of course BBC.

The bad winter of 1962-63. I had just started college in Glasgow, travelling up and down daily from darkest East Ayrshire. Then, my parents decided, the roads were too-treacherous, so, I should lodge with my Aunt and Uncle in Springburn.

One night, to the delight of my Masonic, Rangers-supporting Uncle, a BBC Scotland folk programme, whose title now eludes me, but, featuring as “house band” ‘The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddy Bell’ as they then were, ended with a mass singalong of a tune, started off by Messrs Browne and Williamson.

It was ‘The Sash’ and everyone joined-in. Was that song perhaps, how, in spite of their championing of Scottish folk songs and Scotland in general, the Corries continued to get BBC gigs for the rest of their career?

Cheers Smallaxe

A good crop there and the piece on NI very informative. I see the meeja are a bit backward on the second biggest story in UK politics. Brexit being No.1 natch.

How and ever you’d really have to look to find much on The Westminster government taking both the Holyrood parliament and Welsh Senedd to court. This is an unprecedented action in UK politics and goes right to the heart of the treaty of union, the devolution settlement and the very concept of partnership, trust and political divergence.

Nary a peep.

Cutting through the bullshit, this isn’t about administrative competence and never was. It’s about power. If the Westminster parliament had an absolute right to repatriate the powers returning from the EU, there would be no negotiations. There would be no court case. They’d just take them. They need them and it doesn’t take a degree in rocket science to see why.

Day by day the costs and difficulties of Brexit are being drip fed to the public. The constitutional difficulties, broken pledges and endangered national/international settlements more apparent. It’s not a matter of if, but when will society within the UK look to apportion blame for their lives and economy unravelling. There’s going to be some deeply upset people out there to be sure.

Without the media’s aid, Westminster government would probably already be up to their armpits in deeply grumpy marches camped outside their front door. At some point though, that same public will round on the media who sold them this bill of goods too. Probably a good idea to stay indoors on that day.

Macart,

Good morning, my friend, your analysis of that situation is spot on, as usual.
🙂

Re Blacklisting, one of my mates was blacklisted in the Oil Industry, his rig was tied up at Invergordon, they would not let the drilling crew off the rig even though they were obviously not doing anything. He looked at the contracts and deemed they were illegally being held onboard. So he organised them and led them down the gangway to Freedom for a couple of hours. Never got a job in the Oil Industry ever again. Would go for an interview, they would look at his CV and would offer him a job on the spot, start Monday, on the Friday he would get a phone call saying the contract had fallen through. This happened many times . He reckoned the Blacklist was organised through Shell.

OT I see the Herald is desperate to start the charge against Shona Robinson – utterly shameful.

May it rest in peace and soon – if not peace then pieces.

We should put in a Freedom of Information request anyway. BBC Pravda won’t respect it of course, but they’ll have to write a letter justifying why blacklisting celebrities is in the National Interest.

Or more likely just lie and deny there is a list.

Well clearly the BBC do not view Angels Haggerty as “pro-indy” as she’s a BBC Shortbread regular now.

Interesting. Makes me wonder about the Sunday Herald too given she’s the editor.

Of course some of us have been warning about Haggerty et al being “indy-but’s” for years and years….

auld highlander,

It’s the nature of the beast to go after the smallest and weakest first.

We must fight and beat this Tory beast!

The above article is a start, the dam is about to break I hope. We knew it was going on, but there was no evidence.

Hopefully (and there’s been no sign of it for the last 50 years) hopefully some documentary proof will be leaked soon.

Also, hopefully, they don’t leak it to Mr Bateman. The beeb his baby and he won’t see any ill of her.

On other news…

So Brexshit and Bad,

Another very informative essay over on EUReferendum.com today. Here’s a wee taste.

‘senior EU diplomatic sources” have said that Mrs May’s plan for avoiding a hard border in Northern Ireland was subjected to a “systematic and forensic annihilation” this week at a meeting between senior EU officials and Olly Robbins, the UK’s lead Brexit negotiator.

“It was a detailed and forensic rebuttal”, the source is reported to have said – and apparently with some authority, as the person has been “directly briefed” on the meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. “It was made clear that none of the UK’s customs options will work. None of them”.

This is the review that we were expecting to hear from, and the fact that all we were getting was silence did not augur well for a positive outcome. But, with its comprehensive rejection (which was only what we expected), the fool Foster writes that it “now sends the Cabinet and Whitehall back to the drawing board and raises the serious prospect that Mrs May will have no choice but to remain in the EU customs union if she wants to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland”.

Foster, together with a sizable proportion of the Lords, and many equally clueless MPs, has obviously guzzled the Kool Aid on the customs union, but even then he is way off beam. As late as yesterday, Tusk was saying that, if there was no deal on Ireland, there would be no Withdrawal Agreement and no transition.’

I wonder what the next distraction will be. Whatever it is I hope they keep their clothes on.

The Westminster Treasury refused to give the (SNP) Gov the information to relieve poverty in Scotland when the Westminster made £18Billion of Welfare cuts. The Scottish Gov has to find ways of mitigating. £100Million a year is being spent to mitigate these cuts. Plus ‘bedroom tax ‘ etc. The Westminster Tories are reneging on agreements to pass welfare responsibilities to the Holyrood Gov. These cuts could be easily mitigated by the Scottish Gov if they had the information, Deliberately not forthcoming from Westmster.

The most coarse nasty UK Gov is attacking the elderly and the vulnerable. Giving tax cuts to the wealthiest. Tax evasion rife. Illegal wars, finanacial fraud and tax evasion costs Scotland £Billions.

The damage done to the Oil sector by Westminster governance and lack of investment in renewables cost Scotland £Billions. Scotland has lost out on EU renewable grants etc because of Westminster indecision. £Billions The Westminster Tories took the extra CAP payment awarded to Scotland and gave it to weathier farmers in the south. Scotland as part of the EU receives the lowert CAP payment in the EU.

The Scottish (SNP) Gov is doing everything it can to keep up (additional) NHS funding. Cut by the Torues in the UK £4Billion a year. From 2015 – 20. The Tories are having to put more money £2Billion back in because of the major affects of the cuts in the rest of the UK. The Tories are killing off their own supporters the elderly. Vote Tory to die younger.

The Scottish Gov is putting more funding into nursery provision. More women work in Scotland .It has increased pro rata. Unemployment is still low in Scotland. Despite the Tories illegally hugh Oil taxes that have ruined the Oil sector. Cost Scotland £Billions and 120,000+ jobs because of Westminster mismanagement. People have died in the Oil sector because of Westminster mismanagement. H & S rules have not been enforced and the culprit companies have not been charged. Reserved policy once again. Westminster unionists once again breaking the Law.

The Waspi women etc all could be compensated if the Scottish Gov had the powers and the information. Now being withheld by Westminster Treasury, Now breaking and reneging on deals to hand over responsibilities. Most Tory are born liars.

Scotland pays all it’s own (UK) pensions and benefits – £16Billion from the Tax revenues raised in Scotland, Pays (average) £4Billion on Defence which is mainly spent elsewhere. Pays all military pensions etc. Scotland raises £54Billion in taxes.More pro rata than the rest of the UK. (£533 raised in UK in total)

More is borrowed and spent in the rest of the UK. (£100Million – £60Billion public? £40Billion private) Scotland has to make interest payments on the debt despite it not being borrowed or spent in Scotland. Ie Hinkley Point, HS2, Trident, Heathrow etc. A total waste of money. Appalling decisions. Over budget, over time and overpriced. The last nuclear plants built in Finland (France) was 7 years late and double the estimates. £Billions over budget. So much so there had to be reconciliation methods between the Gov and the company. A total ripe off.

There are much more efficient, cheaper safer alternatives in the UK. The Tories banned onshore turbines (Pickles), stopped coal CCS, (totally viable in Scotland), Frscked Gas pays no tax but can have alarming consequences. Totally tax free in the rest of the UK. The Oil sector is taxed at 40% since Jan 2016. 30% Corporation tax and 10% supplementry tax. Corporation tax in the UK is under 20%. More Oil & Gas has to be imported. Putting up the deficit and the debt. Totally out of control in the rest of the UK.

Banks are still not lending money for reasonable overdrafts and still requiring 20% deposit for house purchases. Out of the reach of many first time buyers although there can be other provision. 10-15% deposit could suffice for buying property. Or did in the past. Reasonable consideration. It was reckless over lending not deposit that caused problems in the past. Cutting leverage and capital reserves world wide from 25% to 13%. Thatcher and Reagan deregulation. Brown and Clinton mismanagement of the banking sector. Illegal wars, financial fraud and tax evasion. Brought down the world economy into recession and cause the worst migration crisis since the 11WW. Costing £Trns. UK/US in £Trns of debt. The most unequal place in the world. No wonder people are so angry and unhappy, Especially the young in these countries. Massacres In the US and stabbing in London S/E.

The Stephen Lawrence revelations of major corruption and cover up in the Met. Dick was involved an appalling unneccessary, botched operations and death. Awarded the OBE, For failure,

The Scottish Gov is building or renovation 5000 affirable houses a year. Private companies are building 17,000+. Plus the houses that come on the market as people depart. This should provide enough affodable accomodation.

HS2 – UK pop 65.5 Million. Japan 127Million. Pop. Nuclear disasters in Japan costing £Billions, Two tidal barrages would be safer produce more energy and be less costly. £20Billion.

To cut rail journey times throughout Britain. More investment should have been made in the north of England and Scotland. Where journeys take twice as long per distance as in the south because of historical lack of investment. The HS2 white elephant which will be running empty. At low capacity Always subsidised. Same Hinkley Point.

The Tories are spending £Billions on these projects. The Tory slush fund. Fees, consultancy, bank fees and charges. Donations to the Tory Party. The usual graft and corruption. Then cutting essential services, sanctioning and starving people. The vulnerable. Killing off their own supporters. The elderly. Vote Tory to die younger.

They are even deporting people. It is just unconceivable. Disgusting disgraceful behaviour. Appalling. The sight of Davidson laughing smirking in Holyrood telling a pack of lies. Denying all knowledge is just sickening. Knowingly on oath telling lies. Unfeeling, uncaring and no empathy at all. Bring back FPTP get rid of the lot at them 3rd rate rejects, At less people would not have to witness their total ignorance. Scotland would be better run. Scotland needs a central bank to be Independent (in the EU). Hope it will not be long.

The only ones who should resign are May and Davidson. Passing the buck and obeying orders is not an excuse for their ignorant, arrogant behaviour, The Tories in Scotland are funded from Tory HQ’s. They even illegally cheat on expenses etc. Davidson was getting funded from a crooked Russian oligarch. The total illegal overspending on the EU Ref. The false vows, promises overspending, breaking Purdah and electoral limits. Ditto GE. Make them null and void.

LibDems allowed this to happen by going into coalition with the Tories. Lying and reneging on all promises. Clegg still hovering in the background. Despicable behaviour. Interviewing Farague. Making it up as they go along. It wisna me Gov. Only obeying orders. The biggest mess ever. Typical Tories. BT. Definitely not.

Scotland is Now;
link to twitter.com

Academic Freedom And Setting An Example;
link to timhayward.wordpress.com

@ Vestas at 10.12

Angela Haggerty is the news editor of the Sunday Herald – which is bad enough. For now at least, Neil Mackay is still the overall editor. Replacing him at some point would be a nice career progression for her, no doubt.

@Colin Alexander,

A little education for you. Chief Executives who run Health Boards and the Directors and Chairperson on that Board are autonomous. They are paid very high six figure sums to to that job. They run the services without interference from Central Government.

They are directly responsible for providing everything within budget, and for producing their own accounting sheet, related to that budget.

The Government can and will only step in should a situation arise which goes against accepted roles and procedures. This is exactly what happened here.

You forget that NHS Tayside has had three CEOs within the last few years and was in financial trouble at the time of Mr And Mrs Marr stewardship some several years ago They have been bailed out at least twice since that time. This was only uncovered once they left to go to Australia.

Ms Robson can only fix what the Boards tell her is a problem. Unfortunately many tend to conceal their problems until they become public.

Navid’s Craiglang neighbour Gavin is a Yes man too.

Some lists are good and some are bad.

05/05/2018.