A quick, one-day Twitterpoll of 306 suggests that just over 90% of Talking-up Scotland followers had not heard these words, from 2023, reported here two days ago :
To my mild embarrassment, I had been aware of him saying something positive about Scotland’s unique child payment, but had not thought to watch the whole comment until being reminded of it by a Freedom of Information report from the Scottish Government last week.
Dorling was quite emotional and enormously excited by the initiative. He too had noticed the bias by omission across the MSM.
The above poll, only a 100 times more reliable than a typical BBC Reporting Scotland Vox Pop in Sauchiehall Street, suggests 90% of followers of a pro-independence blogger, had been denied word of, especially, the two, oh-so-dramatic, ‘in 40 years‘ comments.
Just 90%. Could easily have been worse.
The popularity of the blog post on this story, adds to the finding that this information was effectively suppressed:
Our other most popular header, a mention of Jackie Baillie, cannot be applied to every topic.
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If BBC ‘Scotland’ had done a box pop on this, the question they would have asked a random member of the Labour Party, whom they had primed to walk past, would be ‘Do you agree that the Scottish Child Payment is another example of robbing hardworking families to support the workshy scroungers who are over-breeding and who use it for booze, fags and holidays in Torremolinos?’
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I’ll use that last bit in my pres to Pensioner for Indy next week!
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