Having completely ignored the news that NO strikes by RMT or Aslef staff will take place IN Scotland, apparently unconcerned that vulnerable and disabled folk might fear problems with their travel and stay at home, BBC Scotland leap at the opportunity to connect us with a problem in England.
The headline is: Trains between Scotland and England disrupted by RMT strike but it’s only after three para and after the photo, do we see:
The strike does not involve ScotRail and the operator said its weekend timetable will operate as normal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66277725
In the report, Mick Hogg, the RMT’s organiser for Scotland, told BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland programme:
“We do still have public support. If you take the ticket offices, for example, if you speak to members of the public, what they want is to see staff at station, they want to see booking offices in order to help and assist people who are needing support.
“Particularly, vulnerable people and disabled people who actually want help and support when using Scotland’s trains and train services south of the border.”
From there on it’s an extended account of the trouble south of the border as if readers in Scotland, particularly vulnerable people and disabled people, need to know that but wouldn’t benefit from a report that actually detailed the situation they will find (no strikes, no disruption) at the stations they actually use, on a daily basis.
Tax-payer funded, public service provider with a royal charter to inform you? On a very different track, into the sidings.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
I was at Glasgow Central on Saturday morning and I saw the pickets. They were good humoured and engaging with the public. I was aware the ScotRail services were running.
The destination board was as full as usual, trains were being announced and passengers were boarding and alighting. As I departed I saw an Avanti cross border service waiting at the usual platform. When I returned, there was another waiting at the same platform.
The local services on which I had travelled seemed as busy as normal. There was friendly chat between train and station staff and passengers.
I guess so few people bother with BBC Scotland, that it’s ‘scare’ story had no impact.
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BBC are really going off the rails now in their desperation to deceive and deter people in Scotland from using the services that their government works hard to make sure they continue functioning, because that’s what governments are meant to do. Those tasked with making up the stories about Scotland, at the BBC, must be at their wits end, but it’s what they are trained to do.
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Ah but to be fair John, HMS James Cook would argue that the “vulnerable and disabled” are even less likely to read the BBC/Scotland/Business webpage where it still (ma ?) lingers…
Douglas Fraser’s world is highly focussed on providing Scots business people with an edge, particularly since there is absolutely nothing of rail disruption mentioned on BBC/UK/Business or BBC/UK/England web-pages.
The thousands now stranded in England having (as he sagely predicted) abandoned SG’s tax regime need to know…
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It’s called ”Putting Scotland in its place ! ”
Scots and Scotland don’t matter as much as the important people down south .
Time we got a campaign going called :
”Scottish Lives Matter ! ”
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BBC North Brits R Us.
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If you had a business using ebc Scotland as your advert outlet you would sack them.
Like others I used the train services yesterday and there were plenty of passengers. In fact very busy into Edinburgh.
A statistical analysis would suggest that ebc Scotland has a very poor reception profile and not worth using.
They are only in the business by having the Tax money to subsidise them.
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It’s a formula adopted by the BBC
When things are bad in England then they, the BBC here, must then present #SNPBad news that they hope will be perceived, by Scots, as an equivalence to all that is bad and that is wrong and that is happening in England via the Tory UK government.
They, the BBC, tout for #SNPBAD news on Twitter…asking the public to contact them, the BBC, with their (bad) experiences via public services thus they are looking to create their various #SNPBAD news based only on those members of the public with supposed bad experience(s) while ignoring others with more positive and good experiences….
They also source much of their ‘news’ via opposition political parties or anti independence/SNP critics and too via ‘selective’ FOI requests….with no investigation done by them, the BBC, to substantiate ,seek justification, clarification or to verify the accuracy and reliability of that criticism, opinion or information that is then presented as ‘news’ by them…..as if..
They invite guests onto their news programmes to defend and offer reasoning to (bad) Tory/Labour decision(s) and also to planned or existing (bad ) policies by them…..whereas with the SNP the guests invited on are there to criticise and oppose all and anything with the purpose of damaging the SNP…job done….that is…they think it is…..but alas for them an obvious pattern has developed in their reporting that many more here cannot ignore or fail to notice….hence why I, and many others, no longer can bear to watch news’ NOT where we are’ but instead dictated by ‘somewhere else’ for the benefit of ‘someone else’….as in Pro UK political parties….but also to the detriment of someone too…as in the SNP…and ultimately us here in Scotland……
No Thanks.
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I reckon Scotland can learn from South Africa on a few fronts. Firstly, buying any product with that odious union flag on it is akin to buying South African fruit during Apartheid. Doing so is endorsing a morally repugnant institution. Don’t do it.
Secondly, when Apartheid ended the South Africans adopted a policy of ‘truth and reconciliation’ to help heal the racist divisions.
F*ck that. We will have a truth and retribution era and it will start with our media.
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Good one John , of course that has to happen , those Scottish people who work for the likes of BBC and churn out lies and propaganda against their own people against their own country are in fact issuing the equivalent of hate mail , Scottish government should be doing more to highlight the lies and fight back against the propaganda but they appear to me to be weak willed , all too often I got angry at Nicola Sturgeon in the lead up to brexit when she spent all her time fighting on behalf of the people of U.K. who are mostly English people when what she was paid to do is fight on behalf of the Scottish people perhaps the fact that over two thirds of Scottish people were against brexit would have been recognised more widely if she had been doing her job properly for us because it wasn’t really until after the brexit result that it was publicised that most Scottish people were against brexit and yet we in Scotland all knew it long before the brexit vote.
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While I agree that all defence and support via the SNP should be isolated to just Scottish interests I also think that the collective MSM actively ignore and suppress many of the SNP’s messages/campaigns directed at Scots…indeed they attack and challenge their position on most things.(and omit any positives the SNP ,as a government, have both endorsed or implemented)….
Why I remember it was once promoted that the ‘Lib Dem’ party were THE most Remainer party in the UK….while the SNP’s position in support of Remain pre and post Brexit was largely disregarded or filed under not worth promoting/noting…..
I mean tell me who, via a public platform on **MSM, speaks for us, presents our cause as justified, honest and legitimate and also who , via the whole MSM, supports ** independence compared to all, within the MSM, who support the status quo of the UK….(** excluding The National)
Not all voters are like us indeed many are disinterested and disengaged from politics and thus accept what is on offer via the MSM in way of news and information….the SNP are not given a fair hearing or rather the same amount of time and exposure as Pro UK parties and their supporters…..and if and when they, the SNP, DO try to present their position it is met with a united hostile front via both the media and opposition parties thus it is then condemned and classified as bad….or rather #SNPBAD and #SNPWrong……and where speculation and opinion are given MORE consideration and promotion than the actual facts and truth….
The current promotion of New New Labour in Scotland by the BBC is obvious but Brexit is clearly the Achilles Heel of New New Labour in Scotland especially as you say many Scots “were against Brexit”. something reflected by our vote in 2016….and that may be ONE (of many) circles that neither New New Labour or the BBC (and other media outlets) just cannot square with Scottish voters….and tis very much one the SNP should focus upon and try to capitalise upon too….as well as all of the other OBVIOUS Toryish policies New New Labour intend to adopt as they TRY to gain power within the UK at the next GE….and in doing so also try to ‘win back’ Ha Ha Scotland….
I think that the SNP will never be given the same advantage, via the media, as the Pro UK political parties…. as they, the SNP, are often, as a party, only to be seen as those presented as the ones always having to defend their position, policies etc and too the cause of independence . While Pro UK politicians are never taken to task on their respective parties policies and position or indeed all of the damage their so called Union imposes upon Scotland….thus they are never the ones ‘door stepped’ by the media and challenged to defend their many wrong policies and positions….and neither is their Union (NON one) ever questioned in the context of all of the chaos , damage and mess it imposes upon Scotland….
Only once our side gets a fair and equal hearing with theirs will we then have a fair and equal chance to convince more uninformed voters here of our worthy position upon independence….currently that is NOT happening….so why blame everything on the SNP ?
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