I just spotted this Freedom of Information request response published today. I wonder who was digging here?
Anyhow, 268 974 baby boxes issued and ‘9 messages directly, expressing dissatisfaction with the baby box as a matter of policy or otherwise.’
https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202300370081/
Did these 9 set it on fire and are now complaining that it was possible to do so or are they Labour voters angry about those lazy ones next door getting everything free?
Will Reporting Scotland ask their wee researchers to do a percentage? 9 out of 5 440 000?
0.00016544%! Lots of wee digits there.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Probably, all 9 who complained are BBC Scotland News and Current Affairs staff. I still remember with disgust the appalling phone-in at the time of the baby boxes were introduced chaired by Kaye Adams which was rabidly bilious, based on comments by someone from England, who clearly knew nothing of the Scottish policy but considered cardboard boxes unsuitable for babies.
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It’s the only reason Kaye Adams and her colleagues exist – to pick holes in whatever policies the Scottish government comes up with.
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John
Your indispensable blog gets funnier by the day. It used to be a tonic for the evidence based rebuttals alone but now we have stand up ( or sit down ) comedy. TupS is political satire at its best. ‘I Thank you, thank you’!
Apparently tests have also shown that if petrol is accidentally spilled in the box or lighter fuel carelessly sprayed near it the inevitable fire is accelerated – even when they are not standing on bricks. I think I picked this up from Damn Jakey.
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Thank you so much Daphne.
I will admit to being a frustrated comedian.
John
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Baby Boxes CAN’T be successful – they are an SNP innovation !
This relates to rule No.1 of the BBCScorchedland’s SNPbaaad book of propaganda .
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I believe ONE person complaining on anything generated/proposed via the SNP is enough for the BBC to produce an article via their website, Twitter a/c, GMS or via Reporting Scotland…
Failing THAT it only takes an opposing party to the SNP to complain…… for the BBC here to then TOUT for critics via the public ……to communicate their personal story/experience….a subjective one….and where there is no indication via the BBC as to whether, as a member of the public, they, as an individual, support another political party or indeed if they, as an individual, oppose independence…….
However we on here all DO know the ‘usual suspects’ via experts and those with a professional interest on specific issues who are given a platform, by the BBC, to publicly voice their opposition upon anything and everything via the SNP…….as in those that the BBC ALWAYS source for input who all have, via their (publicly) recorded history, a biased and partisan perspective based on them being ones who support an opposing political party to the SNP and too in 2014 their involvement with the NO side……
In Scotland it appears that you do not need a majority of people here to be against something the SNP have introduced or intending to introduce for the BBC here to then present it as if tis then an assumed public majority opposition ….and one that they, as a public broadcaster, are always only TOO willing to promote via their broadcasting….. time and time again…..however tis also a tactic used to sway public opinion to oppose something that is SNP generated and also to diminish confidence and support in the SNP……while similar scrutiny and negative public broadcasts upon opposing political parties have OMERTA applied via the BBC here in Scotland…..for reasons too obvious to note….hence why in SOME elections they as opposing parties see the benefit via SOME of the public voting for them and NOT voting FOR the SNP…..via what is the primary JOB (s) to be DONE by the BBC here in Scotland…..
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I had a conversation with someone about baby boxes when they were first introduced.
The person was talking about what a stupid idea it was,waste of money,fire risk etc etc but when I pointed out that Finland had been doing it for over 70 years,clammed up.
As far as supporters of the Anglo state are concerned,anything that Scotland does independently is automatically discounted as a bad idea.
Dependency is very hard to shake off.
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