From TuS Senior Westminster Correspondent: Contrary
It’s an outrage, chaos on the roads, poor drivers have to drive an extra 35mile diversion etc from the radio,,, someone on Twitter mentioned that BBC online report on that terrible bridge was in the politics section – is that true? I’m not looking.
(Corona virus, polo lounge vandalism, White House stuff, Aberdeen Provost CONVICTED of sexual assault not stepping down, people are going for cheaper energy suppliers. These are the headlines on the radio. Oh and the bridge!)
What they are NOT mentioning is the battle that SNP Westminster are doing in HoC to get the Scotvisa idea past any kind of reading:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Dr_PhilippaW/status/1227350954741239809
A few politicians are tweeting like mad on this. I think the time of selling outrage at how badly we are treated is past, they are on to a hiding to nothing – with it being their main strategy for changing minds (on independence) anyway – I’m still impressed that they are working hard to try and get us decent treatment. But if it’s not reported in the media, it’s just not going to create outrage, they are relying on a wholly unreliable medium to advertise something.
The radio also has not mentioned Independence at all. I’d prefer to at least hear them keep mentioning it. But, I don’t control the media. Bridges bridges bridges, I just didn’t realise it was such headline public interest news – they are discussing structural international engineering and promoting obscure specialist books on the subject!
What I can’t quite get my head around, is that we are all evil for driving cars and polluting the place, but then there is outrage at a road (car) bridge being closed.
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WE are almost certainly now facing a hard brexit and all the consequences so it must be clear to everyone by now (at least those with a working braincell) that the Tories have two choices. Firstly (and probably already discounted) they can throw money at Scotland like other ‘regions’ which of course they won’t do as they learned the painful lesson of the DUP £1bn gift with the prospect the SNP will get the credit and use the money wisely to boost the economy but for obvious reasons they won’t want that. Secondly they can take steps to ensure Scotland misses out in the unlikely event of any ‘Brexit Bonus’ (like the dismissal of a separate Visa, HS2 etc) and thus create economic armageddon which they can then attempt to blame (with the able assistance of a compliant media) on the unwashed not only Brussels but Holyrood and then take steps to repatriate economic powers back to Westminster. Tory world awaits or Independence becomes a no brainer which is perhaps in some sections of the SNP what Sturgeon is counting on. .
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