BBC Breakfast this morning revealing BBC Scotland‘s deep drive to undermine anything the SNP do in Scotland.
It’s a different culture in the BBC UK HQ. They’re not, I’m sure sympathisers with the SNP but, crucially, Scotland’s constitutional issues are not on their mind all the time and they still cling to some simple notions of journalistic honesty and accuracy so they just said the above without thinking.
How has BBC Scotland reported the same initiative in Scotland?
SNP leader John Swinney has denied his food prices policy is an attempt to force a fight with the UK government. Speaking on the BBC’s Today programme ahead of his anticipated re-election as first minister, Swinney said his plan to legally cap the price of some food items in supermarkets was a reaction to the cost of living crisis.
The food price policy has received criticism from some, including trade association the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC), which described it as a “gimmick”. The SRC’s Ewan MacDonald-Russell told the programme the policy risked forcing small shops – which are not covered by the proposed legislation – to be uncompetitive.
#Asked whether he was looking for a “punch-up” with Westminster in order to make the case for independence, the SNP leader said: “What I’m doing is trying to help people who are struggling with the cost of their shopping.
Did anyone in the wider public really think Swinney was so low, so uncaring, as to be only doing this to force a fight with Westmonster? James Cook.
Has the UK Labour Government’s same policy been presented as a cynically based ‘gimmick’, only thought up to force a fight with Reform UK? No.
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ITN reporter, Peter Smith, announced that the policy was “communist”.
I was quite flattered.
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BBC Scotland are an absolute disgrace, made even more so by their total disregard of the fact that we all know what they are up to!
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here’s the thing about BBC Bias Against Scotland.
they know they’re doing it.
we know they’re doing it.
they know that we know they’re doing it.
but they revel in knowing there’s nothing we can do about it.
John Lawson
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Yep, same as their masters in their government. they are following the line of the English guy, at the start of colonising Scotland, can’t remember his name thankfully but he said something like ha ha we have catched Scotland now and their MPs or whatever, can sit in our parliament, shut up and be quiet and be laughed at by us, ha ha!
Nothing has changed much since then, in that sense.
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lt was the Speaker of the House of Commons who said “We have catched Scotland and will hold her fast.” Daniel Defoe who who was sent to Scotland as a spy before the Union made the comment about the Scots members being laughed at as is still the case…
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I notice that the English Govt proposal included a ‘sweetener’ for the big supermarkets that they would ‘ease regulations‘ including labelling. If this is the case then we should worry about what the supermarkets would get up to with regards to food safety. I simply do not trust any of these dolts in the English Govt or big business these days.
The supermarket I tend to use for grocery deliveries (I live many miles from the main supermarkets) recently provided grapes from India. My first thought is always water quality, but in this case a little bit of research revealed that India uses pesticide levels as much as 200 times those permitted by the EU according to a watchdog body. This may not have affected my grapes, but who knows? High levels of pesticides in the food chain are known to be dangerous to human health and child development.
So there are questions there which should be addressed, but hey, we have an English Govt which is ‘proudly’ doing trade deals with just about anybody anywhere on the planet, regardless of consequences. I’m certainly not against international trade in foodstuffs, for obvious reasons, but it requires great care for the sake of the future health of all citizens and ‘easing regulations’ should be worrying. Could it become permanent? It smacks of Thatcher’s ‘self regulation’ and we all know where that took us.
J & J
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It would appear that the UKGov are now denying they have any plans to cap food prices.
https://www.channel4.com/news/minister-denies-government-asked-supermarkets-to-cap-food-prices
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