Another policy change
Posted on
August 29, 2018 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Well, this is odd. An alert reader has sent us the response they just received from the BBC to a question about our recent banning from YouTube, and it’s curious.
“No discretion”, eh? That’s not what they said last week.
Come on, lads, get the story straight.
The BBC are certainly struggling with this-different depts different interpretations oh dear nothing good can come of it.
How can the punters know what the policy is when the BBC can’t even agree amongst themselves?
Hope you’ve asked for clarification Stuart,in the interests of not getting into bother again 🙂
Not to be a killjoy, but isn’t the first snippet referring to the discretion taken on whether to file the take-down request, and the second snippet is referring to the discretion on whether to contact the channel owner beforehand?
Don’t get me wrong, I hate the BBC, I just wonder whether they are talking about the same thing here.
OR the BBC struggle to tell the truth no matter what it is.
[…] Wings Over Scotland Another policy change Well, this is odd. An alert reader has sent us the response they just received from […]
hahahahaha couldn’t make it up 🙂
…. and it’s surely significant that, I think, never has the BBC raised the question of ‘fair use’.
Does the BBC have an explicit capital-P Policy of not objecting to fair use of their copyright material?
I’m guessing that the BBC’s position is that judgement of what constitutes ‘fair use’ is nothing to do with them. If you (technical judgement) infringe their rights, they will require you to stop. If you want to get a hearing for the ‘fair use’ defence, you have to take them to court.
Doesn’t it say, in the Good Book somewhere, that ‘you will not find it easy to kick against the pricks’?
The blatantly biased state controlled BBC there, making it up as they go along.
Just like they do with ‘the ‘news’ where you are’.
The sad reality however, is that there are still some folk, who genuinely believe that the state-run and funded BBC, is somehow different and honest and impartial, and really, really, really tells the truth. Of course most in Scotland discovered during the Scottish independence referendum that the state-run BBC is as it’s name implies, a Westminster propagandist mouthpiece, akin to cold war Pravda in the USSR.
And they have the audacity to slag off RT. Quite surreal.
These are my policies. If you don’t like them, I have others…
Oh jeez! 😀
Independence Live who are essential viewing if you can’t get to the marches and also streams live loads of other Indy stuff has a crowdfunder open. 16 days to go and only 8% funded currently. We need it to see footage you are never going to see in the BBC or STV.
The BritNat Brainwashing Channel claims to have a system in place whereby an elected official, be that a local councillor, MP, etc. shall be notified of a copyright infringement on YouTube prior to the BBC pursuing action resulting in the takedown of the offending YouTuber’s channel. Other offenders shall not receive such advance notice.
There must therefore be a BBC policy document, specific instruction or staff notice stating such.
An FoI request should be used to confirm that such existed at the time that Wings’ channel was taken down – or to confirm what many suspect… That they’re making it up as they go along as an exercise in @rse covering!
Yeah! We all know what discretion means in their book.
We will allow theirs because we can and wont allow yours because your a nationalist who wants to break up my beloved country that pays my wages! Remember the old BBC motto “and nation shall speak unto nation” (as long as they are speaking unionist drivel)
The BBC is a disgrace to all of Scotland. It is basically just “an amphitheatre of farts” as my father used to say.
Ah, Goebbels would just love this!!!
My granny used to say something like … the problem with lying is, if you don’t want found out, you need to be consistent in your lies and remember them all. And that’s a huge energy sucking task, so best not to try.
She was right. You need to tell every one the same story, not lies to some, different lies to others, and the truth to yet another group. No one can keep up that web of deceit for long, so the simple solution is to just tell the truth.
The BBC need to heed my granny’s wise words, if they care about being found out.
I suspect, however, they are beyond caring how they are perceived!
In response to Roland Smith’s Post at 11:32am about the Crowdfunder for Independence Live here’s a link to a wee 2 minute video about the technicalities behind the camera.
ALSO includes a place where people can add to the Crowdfunder. 🙂
link to indiegogo.com
Not surprised one bit, the only difference now is that most people know what a propaganda tool the BBC is.
The Labour supporters are getting the picture now with the whole Corbyn thing. They still don’t give a s**t that the demonisation of A.Salmond was and is just like their ‘Corrrrbyyynnn’ demonisation though, with bells on!
Well said Robert Louise@11.16.
And great how they can deny FOI requests whilst at the same time bombarding the Scottish Government with them. Transparent, trustworthy, impartial and honest, my backside. Thank God more and more people are seeing right through this odious outfit.
BBC, Lords, Royals, M15, LabServativeDems, UKIP, DUP, Loyalist Hitler saluting thugs and MSM. Different factions of the same plutocratic imperialistic British establishment organisation.
Mafia.
Ryan M @ 10:49,
I had a similar thought, but what then is the point of exercising discretion in contacting someone beforehand, if not to influence the outcome somehow? Nothing very “automatic” about that.
In NorthBritLab propagandist Arthur’s case, for example, he was enabled to discreetly withdraw his “offending” content but otherwise could remain on YouTube. Stu and Moridura were summarily shut down because the Beeb objected to three instances. (A consequence that anyone savvy would expect.)
So the BBC defer to Establishment figures – as they themselves admitted – whereas ordinary people just get stepped on.
More garbage from the state propaganda outfit. Only one language they understand. Don’t pay their “licence fee” !!
“isn’t the first snippet referring to the discretion taken on whether to file the take-down request, and the second snippet is referring to the discretion on whether to contact the channel owner beforehand?”
No. Read the sentence preceding the highlighted section. No leeway there. The rights are either infringed or they aren’t, and the highlighted section unambiguously says that’s the ONLY criterion. To make a decision about how you seek that removal requires the exercise of discretion, based on factors which are nothing to do with the legality.
The old saying You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time comes to mind. The problem for the beeb is that once the people you have lied to realise that you are taking them for being fools there are fewer and fewer that will ever trust you again. Your time is up Beeb your lies have found you out!
Why don’t they just say….”we are always right!”
Both are true,
It’s editorialdiscretion being talked about in the first instance.
In the second it’s admitted that the legal department have discretion on who they harass. Generally so as to avoid the obvious conclusion that the BBC deliberately targets the opponents of those paying their wages. Or rather it’s not actually discretion it’s a hands off directive.
In general you’d think the BBC would do it’s best to avoid losing a fair use case if it was taken to court. However in Youtube’s case what they’re doing is the equivalent of leaning on a 3rd party in the hopes they’ll fold.
Last week lies, this week lies, next week lies.
That’s the BBC for you.
The BBC’s way of responding to criticism and challenges reminds me of the opening scene in Fargo Series 3.
link to youtube.com
What we say must be the truth because we say it. To claim otherwise is not permissible.
I don’t believe the EBC sells porky pies.
Then I believe in fairies, but don’t believe in Eskimos.
Macart
Play it again Sam!! Aint that the truth? 😀 😀
A cynic might think they are just making this up on the hoof.
Stu, From Gov.uk official site:-
“Find out what data an organisation has about you
Write to an organisation to ask for a copy of the information they hold about you.
If it’s a public organisation, write to their Data Protection Officer (DPO). Their details should be on the organisation’s privacy notice.
If the organisation has no DPO, or you do not know who to write to, address your letter to the company secretary.
How long it should take
The organisation must give you a copy of the data they hold about you as soon as possible, and within 1 month at most.
In certain circumstances, for example particularly complex or multiple requests, the organisation can take a further 2 months to provide data. In this case, they must tell you:
•within 1 month of your request
•why there’s a delay
When information can be withheld
There are some situations when organisations are allowed to withhold information, for example if the information is about:
•the prevention, detection or investigation of a crime
•national security or the armed forces
•the assessment or collection of tax
•judicial or ministerial appointments
An organisation does not have to say why they’re withholding information.
How much it costs
Requests for information are usually free. However, organisations can charge an administrative cost in some circumstances, for example if:
•you’re asking for a large amount of information
•your request will take a lot of time and effort to process.”
Under the DPA they must supply you with all info they hold on you.
Demand a Full Record Print.
If they start shredding and deleting after you contct them, they will be breaking the law and could go to gaol.
Sorry, off topic, but regarding yesterday’s article of FoI requests of the Scottish Gov from the BBC and other political parties, has anyone requested the same info from the UK Gov, particularly in relation the BBC Scotland/STV requests to the UK Gov. That could be quire illuminating
The BBC responded yesterday to a request I made for details of contacts between them and YT that may have resulted in “strikes” against YT channels for copyright infringements.
It includes this….
“The BBC does not hold a central record of infringing content that has been taken down from websites such as Youtube, or details of individual accounts against which notices are filed. In order to identify details of contacts between the BBC and Youtube, the BBC would need to review each individual infringement notice and the URLs within each notice, during the period of your request. It is not possible to to retrospectively determine the accounts that have been terminated by the respective platforms, the BBC does not hold this information”
They went on to state that 508 notices were issued by the BBC in the previous year to Youtube, and accross all platforms (Twitter, Facebook etc) was approx 630.
You couldn’t make it up. But the BBC could.
O/T
Just seen a ‘like’ for Ben Nimmo’s comment on WoS Twitter. It is by the ‘Integrity Initiative’.
Here is their twitter:link to twitter.com
and their website: link to integrityinitiative.net
This bit caught my eye in ‘about us’
“our broader aim is also to educate on how to spot disinformation and verify sources. This kind of work attracts the extremely hostile and aggressive attention of disinformation actors, like the Kremlin and its various proxies, so we hope you understand that our members mostly prefer to remain anonymous”
Also ” We are not a government body but we do work with government departments and agencies who share our aims”.
What the hell is that all about? Is this what the whole Jones debacle was about?
They say it means whatever they want it to mean. They sound like this Tory Gov.
Oh wait…
ScottishPsyche says:
Any organisation which claims that “disinformation” only emanates from the ‘global black hats’ and not from the likes of the UK government and MSM, is either foolish or fraudulent.
I have no doubt Russia, China, Iran, whoever, have agencies acting on their own interests across the internet. That will involve spreading fake news, among other things. Here in Scotland we are being attacked by agencies much closer to home!
@grafter says: 29 August, 2018 at 1:01 pm:
” … Only one language they understand. Don’t pay their “licence fee”
Oh! Here we go again!
It isn’t the BBC’s licences fee, grafter. Go read the bloody licence for yourself. It is Her Majesty’s Government Licence fee and it is Her Majesty’s Treasury that gets the money.
The word Licence means, “Permission”, and the licence say on the front page that it grants the holder the right to receive live video broadcasts FROM ANY SOURCE on any media including the internet. That is including commercial TV, Satellite TV and live video on the internet.
You pay Her Majesty’s Government for permission to watch any kind of live broadcast video and Her Majesty’s Government pays an annual grant to ONLY the BBC for their services to the government – they do not pay then for services to the public for if they did they would have to pay every TV channel provider on, (just for starters), Freeview.
The Licence holder simply does not fund the BBC. They only pay the government to get permission from the government to watch TV.
Furthermore, as the grant made to the BBC is paid from General taxation every tax payer is paying towards the government’s propaganda whether they pay for permission or not.
What’s more they even pay for it if they never watch it.
Don’t feel bad about getting told the truth, grafter, for you are just one of the many the BBC and the Westminster Establishment have been brainwashing to believe their licences fee pays for the BBC.
Believe me when I tell you there are more licence payers who wrongly think they are paying for BBC programmes than there are those who know the truth and that is a measure of just how successful the Westminster Establishment and the BBC are at brainwashing the public, and it is not just fooling them about the licence fee and that is why they do it.
The BBC was founded in the late 1920s as the Government’s Propaganda unit. Just take a moment to consider when – “Wireless”, broadcasting began.
Guglielmo Marconi made his historic foray into broadcasting in 1901, when his wireless transmitted the first radio waves across the curvature of the earth. In 1918 the First World War Began.
On 18 October 1922, in London The BBC began. It was the World’s first public wireless broadcaster and the World’s first propaganda broadcaster – it still is the largest World Wide Propaganda Service and the most successful.
The BBC has always been the United Kingdom Government’s propaganda wing. And the measure of their success is that it is the taxpayer that pays to have the Government brainwash them.
In true British unwritten constitutional style, the discredited BBC will explain they said “no editorial discretion”, not “no discretion”.
I’m glad I’ve never paid the discredited BBC licence.
The BBC will be eager to have the 36 Tories in parliament who have today been classified as sex pests named and shamed on the news tonight. Oh!mibbae no as they are not members of the SNP
O/T: Kinda!
Anyone with any doubts whatsoever of the BBC and it’s corporate mentality need to read this:-
link to theguardian.com
(Sorry but it did not Archive).
@Robert Peffers 3:28pm
You make this point each time people state they have not paid their licence.
Surely withholding the licence fee is worth doing given you also believe the discredited BBC is the propaganda arm of the UK government?
It makes no odds that the discredited BBC still get their money. The UK government has to find those funds from somewhere else if I refuse to pay.
And just because you know the technicalities of how the discredited BBC is funded doesn’t take away from how it is marketed. It therefore makes sense not to pay in order to be added to the numbers and spread the load for the inspectors.
Shergar policies. Made up on the hoof.
No doubt they will change again as needs demand . Chancers.
@ Robert Peffers – I understood the licence fee covered live broadcasts from any source and now BBC iPlayer video. But I thought webcasts are not covered such as Independence Live and the Parliament webcasts.
Sorry I haven’t looked this up online. I’m alleric to the BBC now.
I file all my demands to pay in the bin. Now that I’m not buying “newspapers” either I need something to light the fire with.
O/T
Twitter seems to be getting its own back for yesterday’s #DissolvetheUnion stuff. I’m now locked out of my account & I’ve appealed its suspension. Demanding a phone number-not a chance, change of password-nope don’t see why I should.
If someone could put a tweet out on my behalf just saying I’m locked out of my account I’d be grateful.
#DISSOLVETHEUNION 😉
I think this shower at PQ make up facts/lies (same thing)on the hoof.
@Capella 4.51
Shhhh! You’ll give them ideas lol.
As far as I understand it, the answer to your question is ‘ not yet’ but I’m neither lawyer not expert.
@Truth says: 29 August, 2018 at 4:28 pm:
” … You make this point each time people state they have not paid their licence.”
Yes and I will continue to do so as long as there are those who deny the truth. It is counter-productive when the whole concept in people’s heads is that they are only depriving the BBC of funding. It doesn’t change the BBC grant from the Government.
” … Surely withholding the licence fee is worth doing given you also believe the discredited BBC is the propaganda arm of the UK government?”
First of all it isn’t a matter of what I believe but of what the person withholding the licence fee believes they are achieving. Secondly it is a matter of exactly what they are actually achieving.
” … It makes no odds that the discredited BBC still get their money.”
Oh! Yes it Does! Which is why I keep harping on about it.
” … The UK government has to find those funds from somewhere else if I refuse to pay.”
Well now, there’s a thing, you are beginning to think about it in the correct manner. You need to continue with that train of thought.
” … And just because you know the technicalities of how the discredited BBC is funded doesn’t take away from how it is marketed.” So there you go – off at a tangent again.
Here you also make a fundamental error. Can you show in any of my comments where I have made the slightest suggestion that anyone should either pay or not pay the licence fee? Don’t bother looking for I have never done so.
” … It therefore makes sense not to pay in order to be added to the numbers and spread the load for the inspectors.”
Way off on a tangent again, Truth. The BBC Grant comes from General Taxation and the licence fee goes directly to the Treasury. Here are a few Cut & Pastes on the subject:-
“blockquote>The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBC’s radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.
Bolding by me.
Bolding by me. Now let’s get down to just a few brass tacks the following requires to be entirely bolded – so I won’t bother:-
Now to the financing bit of the matter:-
Note the bit where it says the BBC funding comes from the Consolidated Fund. Now go figure just a few things, “They don’t want you to know”. The very first thing the Tories did upon being returned to power was to raise the VAT Rate and bring even mote items under VAT. The next was to cut the tax rates of the most wealthy. Now there seems to be a mental block in the general public’s mind that centres upon Income Tax.
However, Under Labour, the main burdens of taxation was moved from tax upon income & wealth and put onto Goods and services. That is from direct to indirect taxation. This has the well known (to economists), of shifting the main burden of taxation from those most able to pay and places it upon those least able to pay. Income tax is relatively unimportant now and even the poorest of the poor must now pay for everyone needs goods and services. Even babes in arms. Not only that but the pound is no longer tied to the Gold Standard and thus Westminster can just print money when it needs it.
So who do you figure will bear the burden of increased funding for the BBC Grant from Westminster when people refuse to pay the licence fee and Westminster pays for it from General taxation that is mainly indirect taxation?
Yup – got it in one – those least able to pay for indirect taxation.
Now do you understand why those who do not pay for a TV licence need to know what the consequences are? Remember to that I make no judgments one way or the other – that is a decision for the individual but to judge the individual need the truth.
Now having said that I stopped not only paying for a TV Licence long ago but also stopped watching the bloody TV programmes. Now, as it happens I could get a licence for free – but I do not apply for one and still don’t watch TV.
Interesting ….
“Sinn Fein demands EU representation ‘from Derry to Kerry’ post-Brexit
The party has called for representation for Northern Ireland in Brussels after the UK leaves the EU.”
If NI gets seats in the EU post Brexit, why not Scotland? We voted to remain too.
link to belfasttelegraph.co.uk
So the peeterheid fishing boat has been prosecuted twice for illegal fishing (fishing legally this time -although stupidly off France)
I have a dream– the captain is a brexiter wanting no foreign boats off britland.
Whurs bertie fae ulstuur to say No surrender.Gove’s eyes were popping out- nastie foreigners. How dare they– who beat Napoleon?
Brits make me sick.
If you pay the telly tax then you are directly funding the BBC through your license money. If you don’t pay it then they will lose income.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Between now and 2020 the government will be reducing the money paid by the DWP to the BBC currently for the over 75’s license from 16% to zero. So the BBC are either going to have to find money from elsewhere or suffer cutbacks.
link to archive.fo
Not paying your fee scares the government and the BBC as it means you are no longer swallowing their propaganda.
I wonder is this really is BREAKING NEWS …
” EU is ready for unprecedented deal with post-Brexit Britain, says Barnier. THE EU IS willing to strike an “ambitious” deal with post-Brexit Britain far beyond any agreements the bloc has made with other countries in the past …. But he warned that any agreement had to respect “the four pillars” of the EU’s cherished single market – the free movement of people, goods, services and capital. “
…. the Tories will need a very long spoon to sup with the EU. So we’ll see soon enough what this means.
link to thejournal.ie
@Thepnr says: 29 August, 2018 at 6:44 pm:
” … Not paying your fee scares the government and the BBC as it means you are no longer swallowing their propaganda.”
Aye! And that is the only bit of your comment that makes the slightest sense. BTW: Note the bit I posted where they claimed the money paid into the Consolidated Fund pays for the BBC Foreign Service. Thus the United Kingdom viewers, not the BBC or UK Government, pays to brainwash the rest of the World too.
You hit the nail, they don’t give a shit if they get less cash by licence fee but shit themselves because each year more and more United Kingdom viewers have realised they are not only lied to, but have to pay for being lied to and are paying for the rest of the World to be lied to.
Note also the bit about MI5 vetting – do you think for a moment they are still not making absolutely sure there are no Yessers employed by BBC Scotland.
I was tipped off by a high ranking Dockyard Officer that my name was tagged and I would never gain any significant promotion within the MOD. He was gobsmacked when I told him I knew that but still would be applying for promotions just to worry them that it had become apparent to everyone there was MI5 vetting going on.
O/T:
Gordon Ross has a very interesting item on YouTube but also on a new platform and is more or less telling Facebook they are no longer relevant
Very well done Gordon.
Here is his YouTube version and that gives data for the new, high definition, medium:-
link to youtube.com
I’m not convinced by Robert Peffers copy pasting.
Even his quotes directly state “The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence, costing £147 per year per household since April 2017. ” That would suggest to me that only the money raised makes it to the BBC and any shortfalls are NOT automatically made up by the consolidated fund.
As the licence is actually now a tax, this revenue is paid to the consolidated fund like all taxes.
I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that shortfalls are made up by general tax payers.
Scottish Psyche @ 2.38 pm.
Shurely no coinshedensh that Trump has been complaining of “Left Wing Bias” on Google? And that he is going do something about it.
Then he comes out with this idea of violence should the Democrats win the mid-terms in November
Pretty damn scary out there, folks.
PS Who is this Ben Nimmo sort? Is he the one on LinkedIn?
Mr Salmon resigns from the SNP. says the Rev
Well I think that takes pressure of the FM and the SNP for now to get on with the day job. 🙂
O/T I doubt the French will be falling over themselves at the fish counter anytime soon to buy our luxury seafood exports upon which the Scottish fishing industry relies so heavily.
Which numpty decided to pick a fight in the current climate? Hoping to stir up some good old John Bull patriotic fervour against those damned Euro-froggies no doubt.
Was Nigel on board, or was he elsewhere doing an impression of a cross between Oswald Mosley and Arthur Daley?
Thepnr @6.44pm
The question about how the BBC is funded comes up here time and time again – including this evening. I had followed the straightforward argument that it is NOT funded from the licence fee but I think it might be more ‘subtle’ (or deliberately obscure?) than that and probably more than your Wikipedia reference suggests.
What follows is based on me skimming through the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2017/18 this evening. (Source: link to downloads.bbc.co.uk )
Throughout this document there is reference to ‘licence fee revenue’. And on page 109 this : “.. reflects how seriously the disciplines of audit and assurance are taken within the BBC, something entirely appropriate for the HANDLING of licence fee payers’ money.” (My emphasis)
But then crucially on page 111 it notes: “Licence fee revenue is treated as an amount due from the relevant Government department, principally the DCMS, on the basis that AMOUNTS RECEIVABLE FROM THE LICENCE FEE PAYERS WILL BE PAID ACROSS”.
However it claims on page 114: “A rise in licence fee evasion, or increased cost of collection, would put our financial model under stress.”
The report also uses the phrase ‘the license fee settlement’. On page 117 : “Key assumptions underpinning the (BBC’s) three- year plan, and the associated cash flow forecast, are the licence fee settlement that set the financial parameters for the BBC from 2017/18 to 2021/22 .”
If anyone is interested in delving into this document further, take a look in particular at page 172 on ‘Key Audit Matters’ where it states:
“The BBC’s primary source of FUNDING IS DERIVED FROM the Television Licence Fee (the “licence fee”). The Telecommunications Act 2003 requires that licence fees must
be paid to the BBC which, in turn, MUST REMIT THE AMOUNTS COLLECTED to the Consolidated Fund. The BBC Licence Fee Unit uses an outsourced service provider, Capita, to collect licence fees on its behalf.
Licence fees collected are brought to account within the BBC Television Licence Fee Trust Statement (“the Trust Statement”). This is a separate account, …. The LICENCE FEE REVENUE RECORDED IN THE BBC CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IS A GRANT-IN-AID funding settlement, paid directly to the BBC from the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport FROM SUMS DRAWN DOWN for the Consolidated Fund in respect of licence fees issued in the year.”
And:
“The licence fee income and balances recorded in the Trust Statement provide AN AUTHORITATIVE EXPECTATION of the amount of licence fee funding the BBC receives in the year from the Secretary of State, and which it recognises in its financial statements.”
BBC2 tonight. Horizon: A week without lying – The Honesty Experiment. Scientists use new technology on three British contributors to discover what our world would look like if we couldn’t lie.
I would like to see the media in Scotland on this experiment. We know what Scotland would look like without the lying media. A much better place.
@ Welsh Sion at 8:02pm …. “Who is this Ben Nimmo?”
I posted this earlier WS. Take a look.
link to craigmurray.org.uk
Alex Salmond’s resignation letter. Spot on as ever:
link to twitter.com
@call me dave
So Alex Salmond has resigned/ That’s a shocker, it’s totally ridiculous that he has felt it necessary to do so but I can understand why he has taken this decision.
We will see now if in future whenever a prominent member of any other party is alleged to have committed an offence will they too resign from their party?
I hope he has kept Oct 6th clear in his diary and will be able to attend the AUOB march in Edinburgh with all of us and lead the biggest crowd ever to march in Scotland from the front.
Very considered letter from Alex which allows everybody to move forward and gives those looking to make political capital as little to play with as possible. The dignity of the resignation also allows Alex to rejoin with the minimum of fuss the moment this carry on is resolved.
The right move at the right time. Nicola is free to concentrate on conference, Brexit and Indyref2
OT I guess, but I just feel so sad that AS has resigned although his reasons are, of course, spot on. Hopefully he gets the chance in days and weeks to come to shaft most painfully those who brought this about.
But he mentions a crowdfunder. I dont do twitter so can anyone post a link to his crowdfunder please?
I hope that like Stu’s, AS’s fundraiser goes through the roof, to show his detractors that their smears have not had the intended result of causing a split in Yes ranks.
Hope the rev doesnt come after me with hammers again, it is a very painful way to go 🙁
link to crowdfunder.co.uk
@fionan
link to crowdfunder.co.uk
Link also in the first two words of Wings latest article, just chucked in a couple of pennies myself to a very good cause. Justice for Alex!
@Truth says:
29 August, 2018 at 8:01 pm
I’m not convinced by Robert Peffers copy pasting.
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I’m not totally convinced either. However I think in principle he is correct. A drop in license fee money may cut BBC spending a bit. However, what will get cut from budget are programmes – either actual programmes or quality of them. They will always make sure the propaganda feeds are kept fully financed. And if it got to the stage where they might have to consider that, extra government funds would be found to keep the propaganda flowing.
On the other hand I understand people may be so sickened by the BBC they don’t want to show their disgust by ceasing to pay the fee and I think that’s a perfectly reasonable stance to take.
Uh … just to make myself clear, by programs I mean non-news type programmes like drama, comedy, etc.
Aaaaargh! They do want to show disgust – not don’t!
THe Labour Party still control the BBC agenda.
link to caltonjock.com
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British troops will boost training for Nigerian soldiers battling Boko Haram militants under a new security deal
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Under the ministerial code, Baker was supposed to cut his ties with the European Research Group when he joined the cabinet in 2017. But newly released emails show that as Brexit minister, he offered them private briefings on critical government policy.
link to opendemocracy.net
Here is the Joint Statement on UK, SACU and Mozambique EPA. It is not a deal. It is not even close to a deal. It says the parties “commit to work together towards the conclusion” of a future EPA
link to twitter.com
link to voxpoliticalonline.com
link to politics.co.uk
link to globalcapital.com
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link to instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Brexit: that Franco-German motor
link to eureferendum.com
I’m going to do a thread of stuff people should already know about Brexit, but I get the feeling some might have forgotten and need reminding of
link to twitter.com
On lbc Sam Marclowe talks to James O’Brien about UK’s post Brexit trade deal with South Africa
link to lbc.co.uk
link to medium.com
Thanks to Petra 9.07 pm for the link to Ben Nimmo.
I also have a link to him via LinkedIn. (But the photos look different to me – or am I just imagining?) Whatever, ‘both’ Nimmos appear to be working in the same field, and I strongly suspect they are one and the same.
link to linkedin.com
Welsh thoughts sent to Alex Salmond, his family, friends and supporters.