BBC Scotland has only one report on this:
Council leader charged over ‘domestic assault’
Even the National takes time to mention the party:
THE leader of Inverclyde Council has stepped down from his role after appearing in court earlier today.
Councillor Stephen McCabe pleaded not guilty to charges of assault and threatening and abusive behaviour at Greenock Sheriff Court.
The council has confirmed that McCabe’s Labour colleague, Natasha McGuire, will deputise until a new leader is appointed.
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Just this year:
Former council co-leader quits SNP over bus gates
Three Aberdeenshire SNP councillors to step down
an SNP councillor has been suspended
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BBC Scotland and its agenda is becoming so obvious and predictable these days.
C’mon Pacific Quay, time to up your game and start putting a couple of union flags behind your News Readers, that will shake up the natives.
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Everyone knows about it. It cannot be covered up. The internet. An embarrassment.
Abused women have to stay in abusive situations because do not have equal rights and cannot get legal aid. Legal Aid which has to be paid back in any case. The majority, of women, co habit. About time Gov sorted it out. They get legal aid elsewhere, so they do not lose the roof over their head. The Criminal Justice system struggles to solve it. Legal aid can help. More affective and less costly, overall.
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Everybody knows. The internet.
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O/T yet also on topic as it notes the BBC.
We know that there are certain tabloids who have a nasty habit in producing conflicting front page headlines.
Where today they say one thing then on a later date they say the exact opposite .
This is known as propaganda.
So in 2014 the BBC were those who peddled their version of propaganda and today, via an article on their Scottish pages of their website, they are now writing conflicting information to that which they promoted and wrote about back in 2014.
The subject being oil.
In 2014 they told us, via an ‘expert’ that “oil would run out in 2019“.
So today the BBC website has this headline in relation to environmental campaigners challenging the UK government’s approval of the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.
(BTW the article does not specify ‘UK government’s but just states “government’s” thus leaving readers to interpret which government this refers to).
The headline states:
“Billions at stake in court battle over North Sea oil”.
It was penned by James Cook :
“How much oil – and how much profit – remain beneath the waters that buffet the British Isles”?
“Going by the number of lawyers packed into the Court of Session in Edinburgh this week, it must be a decent amount”
Clever use of wording in it being referred to by him as waters that buffet the “British isles” just so that no Jock could then assume that it was Scottish waters thus it was Scottish oil.
He then contradicts what his employers stated in 2014 via their news output.
That is that formerly they said in 2014 that oil was running out but now he Cook, an employee of the BBC, has stated that both the profit and the amount of oil must be a “decent amount“.
Then with no sense of shame or embarrassment (as if) Cook proceeds to inform us that Rosebank Oil field (and Jackdaw Gas field) “ is believed to be the largest untapped field in UK waters and its oil is to be taken off by tanker and sold on the international market, with some gas being piped to Shetland”
Yet again he refers to this being the ” largest untapped field” in “UK waters” to once again confirm it is not Scottish waters thus it is then also not Scottish oil or Gas but British/UK’s.
Not so subtle by him but blatantly obvious the careful use of references that he uses in relation to whose oil he and his employers thinks it is (via ownership) and where that oil & Gas is to be found (that is in British or UK waters according to him an employee of a British media corporation).
Never connecting to anything Scottish but instead always referred to as British or the UK.
However it is also a careless (and insensitive) contradiction by him as a BBC employee from the former statement made on oil by his employer in 2014.
(Which we knew was said by the BBC only to try to bolster the NO side’s campaign).
Also in the Labour’s party’s 2024 GE Campaign they often referred to the “Windfall tax” from oil being the basis of redistributing funds to pay for specific policies they pledged in their manifesto. (the same oil that they too in 2014 assured us was not a reliable source of future income for our country, if independent, to gain any benefit from).
However James Cook and his employer, the BBC , must assume that their former statements on oil would now be forgotten as supposed statements of fact when they formerly assured us that it was running out. (or perhaps they just do not care what we remember or think).
Now we have renewable energy as the new asset for Scotland where it is acknowledged that we have an abundance in both potential and capacity.
Well now the UK circus is starting all over again where we, Scotland, will lose yet another beneficial and profitable resource as others (UK government) take ownership of it in the name of their Britain and their UK.
Currently Keir Starmer is going through the motions of patronising Scotland while making it abundantly clear that it is not our (Scotland’s) renewable energy for our (Scotland’s) benefit within Scotland but that is for his UK/Britain’s benefit and profit .
Once again we, Scotland, are being forced to share that which we have in abundance.
Where media such as the BBC will refer to it being a British resource and never ever acknowledging where the most abundant source of this renewable energy is mainly sourced from within their Britain. (in both the huge potential and capacity i.e. sourced mainly from Scotland).
Yet it seems we also have people, voters, within Scotland who seem content that our resources should only benefit the UK and not benefit a future independent Scotland as they seem to be able to somehow rationalise this as being a normal and logical position for them to take and also to maintain.
Perhaps one day they , as voters in Scotland, will be confronted by reality and truth so then their current position and opinion will no longer be tenable.
I do hope so , because like others on here I realise that “Now is the time” more than any time where we really really really need to do something, as in long before we have a coalition of right wing Scotland haters elected as the next UK government in 2029.
No names mentioned but we all know to whom I refer and this lot to whom I refer do all tend to see their UK/Britain through ‘English Rose tinted glasses’.
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