4 thoughts on “Early release of prisoners in Scotland can cause anxiety but only 5% will re-offend on release from prisons with twice as many staff per capita than in England”

1. “BBC Scotland, today, has the above choice as the headline”

   Indeed.

   Also BBC HQ had the “choice” on Newsnight of not inviting an ex Tory MP and GB News presenter onto their programme last night to discuss the Trump V BBC editing incident aka scandal.

   Last night Jacob Rees Mogg was invited onto Newsnight to give his right wing biased opinion upon this matter………..I mean does the BBC never learn from it’s mistakes.……..or is this Robbie Gibb, the now BBC Board member, yet again pushing the right wing message against the corporation that he is supposed to both support and work for as a BBC Board member.

   How much influence does he, Robbie Gibb, have within the BBC.

   This would be laughable if it were not so serious……..as to the BBC having an obvious enemy within it’s ranks (Robbie Gibbs) who Emily Maitlis once said  “Put this in the context of the BBC board, where another active agent of the Conservative party – former (Tory) Downing Street spin doctor and former adviser to BBC rival GB News – now sits, acting as the arbiter of BBC impartiality.”

   I mean what with Robbie Gibb and in Scotland we also have a 2014 No Thanks individual, Muriel Gray , sitting as a “non-executive directors of the BBC Board” where she receives “a base fee of £33,000 per annum” and where she also receives “£5,000 p.a. as chair of the Scotland Committee” which takes her up to £38,000 per annum.

   So is it any wonder the kind of biased political news that comes out via BBC Scotland that constantly attacks and over critiques the SNP as a party and as a Scottish government…….

   Richard Sharp, the now ex resigned Chairman of the BBC, said at the time of her, Gray’s, appointment to the BBC Board:

   “I warmly welcome the appointment of Muriel Gray as the member for Scotland. Muriel’s experience of overseeing major cultural institutions, and as a broadcaster in her own right, will make her an asset to the BBC Board.”

   Subsequently Sharp , in the future, had to resign amidst a scandal that he was involved in that was linked to Boris Johnson, and also he, Sharp, was once a former Tory donor and a former director of a Think Tank created by Margaret Thatcher in the 1970’s.

   The scandal was when he, Sharp,  just weeks before he was announced as the new BBC chairman, it was then reported that he had helped the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, secure an £800,000 loan.

   Sharp allegedly helped connect Johnson with Sam Blyth, a multimillionaire Canadian businessman and one of Johnson’s distant cousins, who acted as a guarantor. Sharp did not disclose any involvement with Johnson’s financial arrangements during the (BBC) interview process, nor at a hearing before a select committee. He, Sharp, acknowledged that he “connected” Johnson and Blyth but denied that this was a conflict of interest.

   Honestly to those currently defending the BBC just now , all because those who are currently attacking them are just as bad AND just as right wing as the BBC has clearly become……….

   Well perhaps they , who are defending the BBC just now, should really scrutinise the BBC more as to who it employs, who is on it’s BBC Board and also who they, the BBC as a corporation, regularly invite onto and so promote on their various political programme’s as guests and panel members ………..

   And that would be far too many invites for right wing politicians and also invites fopr the regular guests and presenters from GB News (as in their, the BBC’s, supposed rival but who are treated by the BBC as if an accomplice).

   So the BBC in Scotland and also the BBC at HQ have many “Choices”, but as per usual , when it comes Scotland they , the BBC, always both makes and takes the wrong “Choices” in what and who they, the BBC, choose to promote. (while also actively trying to hinder and discourage support and votes for the SNP as a party and as a Scottish government).

   No need to try to correct , clarify or indeed verify that as a fact.

   Liz S

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   1. The media narrative following Farage/Reform is ‘Lawless Britain’ and, of course, Labour under alleged civil libertarian and prison reformer, Keir Starmer, apes it has been falling for several decades, as, indeed, it has been across the UK and most of the affluent nations (except the US).

      However, because sentencing guidelines set by successive governments give sheriffs and judges less leeway the numbers in prisons have been rising because of longer sentences and delays in coming to trial. Prisons have become overcrowded. But, many who are in prison are in an inappropriate place. Many present no real threat to public safety and would be far more effectively dealt with by other rehabilitative, supportive provision.

      These are, in most cases, the ones who are being released early to relieve overcrowding in prisons, because they present little threat and are less likely to be recidivist.

      But, the media narrative is that it is hardened criminals – murderers and sex offenders – who are released early, with most, it is hinted, mendaciously, being ‘immigrants’ and ‘asylum seekers’. These are the kinds of things Labour is failing to challenge, despite, laudably, having set up a group under Lord Timpson, shortly after being elected in 2024, to look at prison reform. Instead, it under the current Home Secretary it talks tough, brutal language.

      Alasdair Macdonald.

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