...is the call we frequently hear from the SNP and Tories.... A lot of lefties cry our Conservative friends, wet liberals preparing for a Marxist state..... you often get the impression that many Tories would like to see the back of BBC News and Current affairs... they ask too many pointed question, dont'ye know...
...Scottish establishment Labour stooges, cry the Nats. They're out to do us down at every opportunity and puff up Labour. It'a cosy unionist cabal....
I wonder what the Tartan Tories and the real McCoy would have said if their spring conferences were barred from live broadcast by the BBC? Would Eck speak only to the faithful? Would he heck! Would Dave travel all the way from Kensington to speak to the yokels if Live TV wasn't on offer. Yoiks to the oiks! he would cry, I'm orff!
Seriously, this is a strange decision by the BBC in Scotland. The excuse (that Labour's autumn conference was covered live) is weak. There wasn't an election campaign on in the autumn but there is now.
I knw that the BBC is committed to "balance", but to cover all the conferernces live, except for Labour, is an extraordinary decision and hardly balanced by any sane definition.
I can just hear Annabel and Eck phoning in their protests to the Controller Scotland: "Not fair my man. Hardly balanced and democratic.. we insist that Labour gets equal treatment with us...".
Will your pension provide for your old age?
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"Would Eck speak only to the faithful? Would he heck!"
ReplyDeleteWhat on earth makes you say that? That's bizarre.
Indy, on reflection you're right of course.
ReplyDeleteYou could lock Salmond in a darkened cupboard for a week and he would still be declaiming at the top of his voice. "...we built 330 schools, ah tell ye, it's true, 330....and we abolished student debt...and we abolished council tax...and we blah blah blah..."
But what do you think of the main point: what would your average nat say if the BBC refused to cover the SNP's conference during an election cycle?
dark and deep conspiracy theories would abound...
Biased BBC has at last realised that Elmur is a disaster in waiting and wish to distance themselves from such a catastrophe if they wish to continue. I hear that Ed had to come up and hold his hand in case he got stage fright and tell the Scots that the Tories are..... Iain misquoted Alex in a deliberate manner which will come back to bite him from his oratory orifice.
ReplyDeleteI think they are saying that they covered two Labour conferences last year so you've had your allocation but I agree it's a rubbish excuse and it should have been broadcast.
ReplyDeleteWhether getting live coverage of any conference speech makes a tuppence worth of difference to how people vote is another question. I suspect it doesn't.
I can just hear Annabel and Eck phoning in their protests to the Controller Scotland: "Not fair my man. Hardly balanced and democratic.. we insist that Labour gets equal treatment with us...".
ReplyDeleteAs I look at the Scottish blogs, there does seem to be a fair amount of concern among SNP supporters that Gray's speech got so little coverage.
Having read it, they have a point. Protecting Gray from public exposure does seem to be going a bit too far. Even the Record has given him minimal coverage.