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By Liz S
For any “normal rational being” then “Glen Sannox ferry needs £3.2m repairs after one year in service” , as an article, would not be their top story today on the BBC Scotland page , as there is a much bigger story that should overshadow it in significance.
A story that is far more significant for the whole of Scotland and so that far bigger story should have remained as the top story today on the BBC’s main Scotland page.
But it seems that yet again , Ferries in Scotland and the BBC , just seem to be an obsession that will not go away…….for the BBC that is…..due to it being so heavily politicised by the BBC against the SNP.
So then we in Scotland are deluged with what seems like a tsunami of various articles on Scottish Ferries, as a favourite subject matter , for the BBC.
So what is this far more significant story that I refer to?
Well on the BBC website the top story on the Wales Politics page is:
“Starmer said ministers can go against wishes of Welsh and Scottish governments in leaked memo”.
(It is on the Wales main page and currently it is the 3rd article)
Same story is on Scotland main page but it is now the 11th article.
Same story is also on the Scottish politics page but it is now the second story. (may descend even further ,far too quickly than it deserves to).
However the Ferry story is the, checks bloody notes, top article on the Scottish politics page.
This Keir Starmer story is an absolute scandal of a political story and is one that hugely impacts Scotland politically.
However for the BBC in Scotland it appears to be that it, as a hugely significant political story , is one that they , the BBC, think pales in significance when another Ferry story comes along.
Agenda much BBC ?
This hugely scandalous political story is one where:
“Sir Keir Starmer told senior UK ministers they should be prepared to go against the wishes of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s governments when taking decisions, a leaked memo has revealed”.
“The prime minister warned against showing too much respect to the administrations, telling his cabinet to feel confident spending money in each of the countries “even when devolved governments may oppose this”.
All we have had with Labour since they became the new UK government in 2024 is a succession of betrayals and now this scandalous betrayal of devolution itself, which the previous Tory UK government also was committed to doing as well.
Riding roughshod over devolution while during the 2024 UK GE campaign Sir Keir Starmer spewed out a slogan in him saying that:
“Scotland would be at the heart of his government” .
A heart that is clearly not beating for Scotland, that’s for sure.
This latest Labour scandal, if nothing else, clearly shows the people in Scotland that with Labour in charge of the UK there has been no change from the Tories .
Instead all we have had, yet again, is just another UK government acting like a control freak with all of the devolved governments.
A UK government and their contemptuous manner towards all of the nations that have devolved governments.
This is the reality of WM politics, be it in any chamber within the Houses of parliament in London.
That is , both within the HOC’s and the HOL’s , where we clearly have hostile forces within both houses acting against our best interests in Scotland , Wales and NI , while ensuring that their own individual and also their respective party’s best interests are always met.
#PowerAndMoney
They debate, criticise and so then they get to decide what they say is best for all of us within the devolved nations, all in the assumption that they assume that only they can determine what we all need and want .
In Scotland what we actually need is our independence and that is what any “normal rational being” would want to have, especially having suffered for far too many years under a UK State that fails to represent us as a people and as a Nation.
Have the BBC in Scotland doorstepped Anas Sarwar yet , upon this latest Labour scandal ?
Liz S
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This story is not being given the publicity it deserves as UK political news.
Even though it involves a UK PM.
Problem is though , all we have are English TV Stations masquerading as UK TV Stations , who then always prioritise English Politics, English Sport and English news.
Whenever they do decide to mention any other nation , outwith England, it is often then news that involves some form of negativity.
This story is getting lost , soon to be forgotten, what with all of the other stories aka political scandals going on in English politics, so they, the English TV Stations all decide what they think is more important than it is as a , checks notes, UK political story.
But more important to whom ?
English viewers ?
As in not giving it he same status as other UK political stories , they then make it obvious that they do not want to defend any of the devolved nations or indeed defend Scotland itself.
So they do not seek to serve viewers anywhere else within the UK other than those viewers within England.
Got it (always did know that based on their usual content ,dismissive and negative tone and their neglect of any positive Scottish news, political or otherwise, on their…..UK news programmes).
Liz S
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