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By Liz S

As Jackie Baillie was interviewed by the BBC radio in Scotland in a softly softly interview that was mostly, as per, an opportunity for her to have yet another public platform to scream #SNPBAD via the BBC in Scotland.

Yet here is what I found online in the ‘Scottish’ Labour manifesto for the 2026 Scottish elections.

30 April 2026 “100 Days of Change”

This was on the ‘Scottish’ Labour website:

“If international instability continues, deliver £100 million of emergency support including help for struggling households, support for businesses, bulk buying fuel to bring down prices at the pumps, and action with supermarkets to keep down the cost of staple items”.

So “action with supermarkets to keep down the cost of staple items” ?

A Labour branch office pre 2026 Scottish election manifesto pledge.

One that we would assume that Jackie Baillie was aware of . (in her role as Deputy leader of the branch office of Labour in Scotland)

Yet now Labour in Scotland’s Jackie Baillie is apparently pretending that the above action point by her party in “100 days of change” did not exist as MSM Monitor posted this today on ‘X’:

“Jackie Baillie was on Radio BritNat Breakfast”

“She was asked three questions”

1. What do you welcome in the FM’s programme for Govt?

2. What’s your view of freezing the cost of essential items?

3. Is Scottish Labour nasty?

“That was it. Baillie gave the usual replies”.

“1. Attacked the SNP. 2. Policy won’t work. 3. No. The interview had no depth”.

“There was no evidence of any research. Lucy Whyte didn’t appear to know that freezing the cost of supermarket staples was a Scottish Labour manifesto pledge”

“There was zero exploration of the Marra v Fagan leadership contest and how Baillie’s party got there”

“No interest in exploring what new powers Scotland might benefit from from Westminster after Burnham’s speech yesterday. It was a token chat”.

Indeed MSM Monitor is correct in that the BBC have form in playing nice when it is any party but the SNP.

However in this instance the BBC presenter was either being (wilfully) neglectful , ignorant or acting as a co-conspirator ( or all three) in her not highlighting that if , as asserted by Ms Baillie, this Scottish government’s supermarket price policy “won’t work” then why did Labour also tout a very similar policy in their Scottish election manifesto in 2026 ?

That is in their “100 days of change” in a part that stated they would implement an “action with supermarkets to keep down the cost of staple items”.

Also did they , Labour in Scotland, first check with supermarkets if this was feasible and so then agreeable to the supermarkets before adding this “action” onto their Labour in Scotland manifesto for the 2026 Scottish elections ?

In this instance we have (yet again) the Devils and their lack of detail , as it’s always the detail that both the BBC and the Labour party always seeks to avoid/ignore , especially when the BBC and Labour can find a way to protect the Labour party and so then also damage the SNP.

I mean “playing politics” is Jackie Baillie’s forte and the BBC allow both her and her Labour colleagues to to do this time and time and time again.

The BBC – that’s their job in Scotland (It is a service that they provide to all opponents of the SNP– where they, the BBC, are also actually very much the opponents of the SNP as well).

Liz S

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