In a longish reflection more about Iraq and Afghanistan, than Scottish politics, and tempting us with a lovely image where we cannot hear her because she is: ‘Kneeling on the sofa with a duvet over my head, curtains closed in the middle of the day‘, Britain’s appointed TV News Commissar in Scotland, Lady Sara Smith, without any apparent sense of irony, asks:
‘Will my reporting appear less credible?’
Breakfasts across the land are spluttered over table-tops, even sprayed onto TV screens, as millions shout:
‘You could not be less credible!’
This is the woman who loves to insert whenever she can, fibs such as those about school standards ‘slipping’, Tory ‘resurgences’ or drug legislation reserved to London being ‘convenient’ for the SNP.
Being able to write as she does only reveals that elitist, blinkered sense of entitlement we have come to expect from Scotland’s Labour aristocracy.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Hmph Sarah Smith.
I’m still reading through a twitter thread by David Allan Green regarding the emergency powers legislation – note that it is a statuatory instrument based on another act (so it is not a stand alone law) and is not indefinite and must be proportionate – but obviously we have to have our own version in Scotland and I’ve still to find it, though there is a tweet here commenting on the key difference:
Listening to police man on the radio ‘compliance so far has been brilliant’, well done folks.
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Scotland’s Liebour Broadcasting Arsistocracy . When she first started at Ch4 news Lady Sarah was a bonny lassie. Then when she came to Scotland as a propagandist for the Beeb, her mouth swelled up with the lieing.
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My response to her (imagined) question: “Could it?”1
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Well now that BBC Scotland are beginning to shut up shop maybe we won’t be hearing much more of her , OR horror of horrors she will be the ONLY voice we hear ! .
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Not even if she dressed up as Goebbels
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And with a club foot? Should I be moderating this pervy turn?
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Just took the opportunity to read Sarah’s piece on the BBC web site.
My take on what she said is:
Despite our self-isolation, nothing of our reporting will seem much different to you huddled masses out there. You see, we just make it up anyway.
Maybe the stress of all this is just getting through to me 😦
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I have self-isolated from the Hon Sarah. Such abstinence is a great trial, but……………………
I have toilet roll, baked beans and plenty of books. Oh, and lots of wine.
Life goes on at a breakneck snails pace. C’est la vie !
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