Wings Over Scotland has been monitoring the BBC’s coverage of Scottish politics for over 11 years now, readers, and other than The Nick Robinson Incident we’re honestly struggling to remember seeing anything worse than this.
The Corporation’s “coverage” of Ash Regan’s campaign launch for the SNP leadership election ran for roughly seven minutes. And we suppose we should be grateful that it did at one point feature a brief, incidental cameo appearance from Ash Regan.
We read some harrowing tweets this week from an Edinburgh SNP activist. Sensitive readers should look away now, as the following article contains potentially triggering information about the wild and lawless streets of [checks notes] Corstorphine.
It’s remarkable how openly a certain faction of the SNP is now declaring surrender.
And it’s becoming increasingly clear that the events of the next few days and weeks will not just determine the future of the independence movement, but whether in any meaningful, practical sense it continues to exist at all.
A major piece by the Corporation’s Scotland editor James Cook focused on interviews with two of the three contenders – excluding Ash Regan – on the basis that both had launched their official campaigns yesterday while Regan’s isn’t expected to be until later this week.
So this is interesting. Last week we were about to release some results from our latest Panelbase poll when events intervened. Naturally we’d asked a few questions about gender issues, and one of them concerned the Scottish Government’s potential legal challenge to the UK government’s use of a Section 35 order to block the Gender Recognition Reform bill.
There were three options in the question, and as luck would have it the three potential new leaders of the SNP each advocates a different one.
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “I forgot about Geri – I wonder whether she got sectioned/remanded, or simply gave up?” Aug 26, 13:29
Mark Beggan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Alf Baird has been on this platform for a few years now and has repeated the same one-way crap. It’s…” Aug 26, 13:18
Captain Caveman on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““But Alf, you blame absolutely every problem that Scotland has on English immigrants. You’ve even written a book about it.”…” Aug 26, 11:31
James Che on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Scotlands resources, Scotlands taxes, and Scotland revenues, Scotlands land and sea are a Sovereign nations assest’s that belong to Scotland…” Aug 26, 10:58
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “But Alf, you blame absolutely every problem that Scotland has on English immigrants. You’ve even written a book about it.” Aug 26, 10:57
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “There are numerous, very high quality pieces of work that have considered the decline in mortality rates and recognised the…” Aug 26, 10:55
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Guid ane Northcode. Aye, e’en the dugs doon the close ken the colonized fowk haes tae “mimic the colonizer” (Fannon)…” Aug 26, 10:51
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““You are a fucking child.” Colonial ideology applies such “adult and the infantile” rhetoric to make the colonizer’s “presence seem…” Aug 26, 10:45
Northcode on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““So a’m walkin’ doon Sauchiehall Street the ither day, right? Sun’s oot, folk millin’ aboot, aw that. And a see…” Aug 26, 10:34
James Che on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Should Scotland ask where its parliament was for three hundred years? Should Scotland ask how the State of Great Britain…” Aug 26, 10:26
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Smearing the integrity of researchers does your case no good. This is my last post on the subject. Loopstra 2017…” Aug 26, 10:19
James Che on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Both England and Scotland have to remain Sovereign independent Countries for Great Britain to Exist. There can be no Devolved…” Aug 26, 10:18
Mark Beggan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “You live an a fantasy world that you control in your wee head. You are a fucking child.” Aug 26, 10:17
Alf Baird on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “There ye go again Hatey, blaming Scotland’s high energy costs on Ru**ia and everything else on immigrants. When we aw…” Aug 26, 10:08
James Che on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The bank of England is just that, it was never the bank of Scotland Wales and Ireland. And No Scots…” Aug 26, 10:04
Aidan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “It’s very clear that the research is heavily ideologically driven, consider just some of the statements from one of the…” Aug 26, 08:29
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: ““The estimation of excess deaths attributed to austerity in the UK from 2010 to 2019 involves a comparison of observed…” Aug 26, 08:25
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “An interesting analysis of your leccy bills and an explanation of why they will almost certainly be higher in 2030…” Aug 26, 08:11
sam on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Aidan, Labelling research as “ideological” without any evidence is what you have done. There was no “natural limit” to live…” Aug 26, 07:44
Young Lochinvar on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Could the lawyers on here cruising silently beneath the surface as opposed to those pretending to be lawyers comment on…” Aug 26, 00:11
Mark Beggan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “If Charles had fallen on the field and the ringleaders were hung the outcome for the rest may have been…” Aug 25, 22:56
agentx on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “” Transparency campaigner Benjamin Harrop wrote to the force seeking the written statement Ms Sturgeon made to officers after she…” Aug 25, 22:53
Mark Beggan on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “The Geneva convention had not been written at that time. Without trying to be being contentious, what else did they…” Aug 25, 22:41
Hatey McHateface on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “C’moan boys, let’s see a fight over who gets possession of the Baton Of Erudition. Twat H is ancient, but…” Aug 25, 22:40
GM on Before Action: “Burning the quangos to the ground, man I would love to be here to witness it.” Aug 25, 21:58
