The SNP and the BBC.

[cherenkov]

As a Scot living and working in England I and many like myself have been troubled for some time by the failure of the New Labour devolution experiment, the rise of the Nationists, and the possible destruction of the UK.

Today the government has moved this issue under the radar of the UK public and our News providers and the BBC has tried to respond, in my opinion poorly.

Questions- Why did the Scottish deputy PM refer to the UK government as 'Tory led' in every interview I heard her give today (at least 10 times the last being on Newsnight just now)?
We all know why and the BBC should have challenged her on it. As a Scot I know that the main weapon they use against the UK is the promotion of anti-English and anti-Conservative sentiment. This kind of irrational spastic hatred is always used by nationalists to divide people who have been united for generations. Hitler was no exception.

Because the BBC are anti-Conservative themselves they can't seem to bring themselves to question or even acknowledge this base populist demagoguery against the SNP's chosen scapegoats for everything that has gone wrong with Scotland and nothing that went right. Of course they might upset their masters in the TUC who hate the Conservatives as viscerally as the SNP incited Anglophobes and Toryphobes North of the border.

They couldn't even ask the deputy whose name, curiously, like that of her absentee master is also that of a fish(!) the question we all wanted to know regarding their proposed 'divide and rule' 3 choice referendum;

If 1.5 million vote to stay in the UK, and 1.5 million vote for extended devolution, but 2 million vote for full independence, will that result be taken as being a mandate for a declaration of independence? It's not a difficult question to ask, why didn't they think to ask it?

[thehighlandrebel]

I voted SNP for years, Cher, and had no problems with Scotland going independant but finding out more and more about the sinister side of the SNP changed my mind.

With their fanatical anti Semitism and support for radical Islam they are by default going to destroy Scotlands Judeo Christian heritage and drag Scotland back to the dark ages at the same time as turning Scotland into a pariah state amongst the free countries of the world.

I have no wish to live in a Scotland subservient to a medeival Satanic terrorist cult who's only mantra is murder and death and would probabaly have to emigrate to Canada along with many other people I know who share my concerns.

I was related to Donald Stewart, a former leader of the SNP, who was a devout Christian and who would have been horrified at the Nazification of the party today.

The SNP's support for radical terrorist organisations must be exposed as is it is not just a threat to the Scottish people but when Scotland becomes a safe haven for radical Islam it will become a threat to England also.

[cherenkov]

Every single time the SNP refer to the British government they refer to it as 'Tory', or 'Tory led'. Don't the BBC ever think to question this obvious tactic and ask the SNP why hatred of the Conservative party has been such an important feature of their pro-independence incitement.

Could they ask Mr Salmond if he is not guilty of using the Conservative party and the 'bloody' English in general as a scapegoat for all the perceived injustices suffered by the Scottish people in much the same way as fellow nationalist Hitler used the Jews?

Could Mr Salmond not be asked how many Scots on both sides of the border benefited from the Conservative's policy of allowing council house tenants to buy their home for ten grand? After all I've heard it said that this policy led to the biggest single redistribution of wealth in the history of Scotland and the rest of the UK, if not the World!

Far more Scots like myself, live outside Scotland in all corners of the globe. The Scots we believe we are are not nationalists or parochialists, our heritage does not demand that, actually if Burns is our Talisman how could it possibly do so?

Salmond is a nasty sinister aberration that has indoctrinated too many gullible young people in Scotland with his demagoguery. Let's hope the BBC can wake up to his true nature and join the vast majority of the millions of Scots all over the world, and the UK government, united across all the major parties, in kicking the evil, corpulent shit into the dustbin of history once and for all. He is a disgrace to everything being Scottish stands for. I could not despise and detest him more!

[Teddy Bear]

I think you guys may well relate to this article

I don't live in 'Westminster'
By Graeme Archer Politics Last updated: January 12th, 2012

If Alex Salmond were a stand-up comedian, he'd be Jimmy Carr (though with a different accent). Like Mr Carr, his shtick is to fire out outrageous statements with machine-gun rapidity, statements that bear only a glancing relationship with reality; also like Mr Carr, the effect of his delivery is to render his audience into stupefied, choking surrender.

In the last few days, in response to the British Government's eminently reasonable suggestion that a referendum about the SNP's entire existential purpose be held within the next couple of years, and that it be legally binding, Mr Salmond has declared that such moves are "Thatcher-esque" (ah Pavlov! Where would the demagogue be without those buttons to push?), that the Prime Minister is trampling all over Scotland in "Size 10 boots", and that for the House of Commons to even debate the future of the Union amounts to "trying to run a referendum by proxy".

Unlike Mr Carr, however, Alex Salmond isn't remotely amusing. The future of the United Kingdom deserves a more mature political discussion than this one-note trick of playing to the nationalist gallery, while simultaneously using language designed, I must assume, to make English residents loathe him. Trust me, it's not a Scottish v English thing; I was born 30 miles from Glasgow, and I share the same common irritations with the Barnett formula and Mr Salmond's grandstanding as those of you from the south coast. I hope that all supporters of the Union overcome the antibodies engendered by the "First Minister", regardless of their political affiliation, and join together to resist the Nationalist challenge.

I hope too that the editors of the BBC wake up to the fact that this isn't some small-scale skirmish in domestic politics, which can safely be reported in a sardonic tone (Oh those politicians! Arguing again!), with uncritical deployment of Mr Salmond's chosen phraseology. Three times in the early bulletins this morning I heard the referendum argument described as a fight between the "Scottish" and "Westminster", or "London", governments; exactly the dynamic Mr Salmond seeks to establish (those brave wee Scots facing down remote, uncaring Londoners).

It should occur to reporters that such a description is factually incorrect. Whatever the SNP's views on the matter, Mr Cameron is Prime Minister of the UK; Mr Salmond leads a devolved administration which would like to secede from the UK. Mr Cameron isn't speaking for "Westminster" or "London", but for the British Government. That "Westminster" isn't a synonym for "Britain", surely, isn't something of which the BBC should need to be reminded.

[cherenkov]

Good quote.

At the moment it appears the complete SNP case for Scottish independence is the hatred of the Tories and the English in general that they themselves have largely incited with tactics that included party activists outside cinemas ready to give out SNP propaganda to emotional young people coming out after having watched Braveheart!

[Teddy Bear]

Thinking about it, Mel Gibson and Alex Salmond seem to share a lot in common.

[thehighlandrebel]

More like Adolph Hitler, Teddy.
Mel Gibson portrayed someone who was passionate about his people whilst Alex Salmond is passionate about supporting terrorist organisations who's ultimate aim is wiping out our Judeo Christian heritage, destroying Israel where the original Scots came from and prostrating himself to an ideology that calls for all Scots to be killed that don't submit to the Antichrist (Mohammad)

[Teddy Bear]

Google 'Mel Gibson and anti-Semitism' and see what you get

[thehighlandrebel]

I know about Gibsons anti Semitism but both William Wallace and Robert Bruce were aware that the Scots were in fact the lost tribe of the Levites. This is part of the Declaration of Arbroath written in 1320 and understandably the SNP never quote despite being one of the most important documents in history.

'We know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea to their home in the west where we still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner.'

[Teddy Bear]

Just read an interesting piece about the things you wrote about THR. It's really a revelation. This too - Prior to this, in 278 B.C., the Celts had virtually colonized Britain, and were actually called Britons - the name ‘British’ being derived from the Hebrew word ‘berith’ meaning ‘covenant’.

Also interesting piece here about the origin of Scot from the Hebrew 'Succoth' (Tabernacle)

Lots more too.

Quite a revelation Very interesting

[thehighlandrebel]

There's a lot more Teddy, some of it speculation and some of it historical fact but there can be no doubt about it that the majority of people in these isles are descendent from Israel.
What got me interested, as I said in a previous post, is when I found out the Hebrides where I live means the isles of the Hebrews and the main island, Lewis, was up until recently called Levis or the island of Levites.

It's all very interesting and a historical eye opener.

[cherenkov]

If we are aware of these things and the BBC has thousands of researchers and at least three historians making programmes for them then why is this matter not being covered by them? Oh, I know!

[Teddy Bear]

Cher - ;D

THR - I see too that Iberia (Spain) is derived from 'Hebrew' too. Danish from tribe of Dan, and many more.

[thehighlandrebel]

The Levites also carried the royal lineage of Israel with them. The Declaration of Arbroath mentions an unbroken line of 113 kings. Researching deeper you can trace that back to King David himself.
Our present Queen is a direct descendant of Robert Bruce (on the Queen Mother's side) which makes her a descendant of David and Solomon also.

No wonder followers of the Religion of Peace in this country call for her death.

[Teddy Bear]

A story I can imagine putting smiles on the faces of Cher and THR.
From how THR describes the mindset of Alex Salmond, this latest incident in which Salmond calls a BBC controller a Nazi, following his being pulled from a show he was supposed to appear in, that this can be taken as an expression of kinship.

The serious element to this story is how easily the BBC head of sports thought it would be perfectly okay for Salmond to have appeared on this programme to begin with. I suppose that seeing him appearing on the BBC so often must have given him that impression. No consideration or thought though about the balance and unbiased responsibility the BBC is supposed to have.

Everyone's against Poor Alex Salmond: now it's the BBC 'Nazis'
The first minister has made another poor judgment call, says Alan Cochrane

Another judgment call, another occasion when Scotland's First Minister is found wanting.

First things first; Alex Salmond is entitled to feel aggrieved that having been asked to appear as a guest in the pre-match chat before Saturday's Calcutta Cup match at Murrayfied, his invitation was pulled by the BBC's political advisor.

However, Mr Salmond then threw his toys out of the pram, as he is wont to do when things don't go his way, and made a fool of himself and lost what little sympathy that might have been coming his way by his use of wholly inappropriate and intemperate language.

We could be generous and suggest that calling the hapless BBC mandarin a "Gauleiter" displays either an imperfect knowledge of the English language or of 20th century history – or both.

But knowing our Dear Leader as we know, it is entirely possible that he thinks it is perfectly all right for him to liken those who dare to defy him as some kind of Nazi.

After all, he is not known for mincing his words about his opponents.
But all those who are demanding that he apologise shouldn't waste their breath. He won't; it's not in his DNA to say 'sorry'.
If we go back to the bare bones of this story it is plain that the real villain – twit might be a better word – of the piece is not Ric Bailey, the BBC's political advisor, but Carl Hicks, BBC TV's head of sport.

It was Mr Hicks who said that Mr Salmond could appear on the telly in the pre-match build up to the Scotland-England game on Saturday evening.
He apparently believed that it was appropriate, in the midst of a highly-charged political debate about the constitutional future of Scotland, to have the leader of one of the factions – and only one – burbling away in what would effectively be a free party broadcast.
As such he was naïve in the extreme and his action confirmed the view of many that sports people think the world extends only as far as the white lines of their playing surfaces.

And as for Mr Hicks accepting Mr Salmond's assurances that he wouldn't use the programme for politicking purposes; don't make me laugh. Maybe Mr Hicks thinks the earth is flat, too.
It was, as they say, a "stick-on" that the wiser counsels of Mr Bailey would prevail when the matter was raised with him.

As he rightly ruled, the "heightened tensions" in Scotland's political world at present should ensure that politicians of all parties shouldn't be given free rides. And that precisely's what Wee Eck would have got if he'd made it to that rugby studio.

So, full marks for Mr Bailey and a dunce's cap for Mr Hicks for being stupid enough to invite Mr Salmond onto the programme in the first place. In my experience, politicians are for ever angling to get onto TV programmes that have nothing to do with politics. Sitting around on squashy studio sofas, chewing the fat with presenters who wouldn't know a PSBR from an MLR makes them look almost human.

From what I can gather Mr Salmond's acolytes are no slouches at encouraging innocent and non-political TV presenters to have their man on their programmes.

It also helps if the TV executives in question are in London, as it seems to be the case that most there believe that Mr Salmond is the living embodiment of Scotland, rather than just another politician on the make.
Mr Salmond says he is going to complain about his treatment and about anti-SNP bias to Lord Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, when the latter visits Scotland this week.

Excellent news; I just hope that the noble lord is able to stay awhile to hear all of the complaints about pro-SNP bias on the BBC, too.

[Teddy Bear]

I happened to catch the following snippet on World at One on BBC Radio 4 today. I see the BBC have found another way to get the views they want aired without having to balance them with alternative views. They simply invite a group of young students to ask questions of the BBC 'chosen one', in this case Alex Salmond. This way they can make sure the questions they want to have answered will be, without any opposing views to complicate matters.

One of the questions was whether 16 year olds should be given a vote. Naturally the likes of the BBC and scum like Salmond would very much like to have young minds with no real experience of the world to have this power. They're so much easier to brainwash.

The particular section is about 30 minutes in, and is available to listen again for the next 7 days.

[thehighlandrebel]

Missed that one Teddy.
I've got to admit that I rarely watch/listen to b-bbc propaganda (news) as they just seem to roll and roll with the same stories which push their own agenda ie phone hacking, Americans in Afghanistan and of course their cuddly Islamic terrorists.

But as you yourself said in a previous post the b-bbc and Adolph sing from the same hymn sheet.

[Teddy Bear]

It's gotten to where I no longer hear the actual news reported by the BBC, I'm just conscious of their agenda. It doesn't only apply to news but a lot of their other output where they manage to imprint the message they want to be taken in.