By Liz S This below is still not anywhere on the BBC website as of 16.55pm on 12/11/26:

The National reported this morning that:

“Andy Burnham has been accused of getting “basic facts” wrong after he hailed English investment in response to a question about Scottish “deindustrialisation”

“The Prime Minister pointed to a £1 billion boost for wind farms off the coast of Norfolk in response to a question from SNP MP Graham Leadbitter in the Commons on Wednesday”

On Facebook the Grasp The Thistle account wrote:

“Andy Burnham has been accused of “telling fibs” after he claimed that £1 billion of investment had been announced for a Scottish wind farm site”.

“The Prime Minister made the claim in response to a question from SNP MP Graham Leadbitter in the Commons on Wednesday”.

“At Prime Minister’s Questions, Leadbitter asked: “The Chancellor has acknowledged that Scotland could have had a £1 trillion wealth fund from oil and gas, but instead we have seen no fund and 1000 jobs lost every month”.

“Before the Prime Minister jets off to COP31, will he commit to a Scottish wealth fund to ringfence revenues from Scotland’s waters for Scotland’s renewables future, or is he content to continue Labour’s deindustrialisation of Scotland, just like Thatcher in the ’80s?”

“Burnham replied: “That is a very unfair comment, if I may say so, on the very day that the National Wealth Fund has committed £1bn of funding to support offshore wind off the east coast of Scotland. I would have thought that [he] would stand up and welcome that announcement.”

“However, the £1bn figure is thought to refer to the Vanguard West and Vanguard East offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast which had been announced earlier in the day”.

“Leadbitter said Burnham had been caught “fibbing about investment that doesn’t exist”, and called on the Labour leader to correct the official parliamentary record”.

Today in the newspapers in Scotland it is only The National that has this story on it’s front page and also it is not mentioned anywhere on the BBC website as a political story.

Yet I remember the various recent headlines below in respect to John Swinney that were noted in various newspapers and that was also noted on the BBC website in relation to a comment made by Mr Swinney on Pensions .

Where also the UK Government Pensions Minister Torsten Bell accused the FM of lying about pensions in a bid to “scare pensioners” he, Torsten Bell , also accused the FM of “scaremongering for cheap politics and grievance.”

The various newspaper headlines stated:

“John Swinney accused of lying and scaremongering”

“John Swinney cleared over pension lie”

“Here’s proof that John Swinney lied to Scotland’s pensioners”

The BBC headlines on that story were:

“Swinney defends claims about Scots ‘losing’ pensions” .

They , the BBC, also wrote another article on it with a header that stated:

“No probe into claims Swinney misled Holyrood”.

Today all of these same newspapers have absolutely nothing on their front pages about Andy Burnham lying at yesterday’s PM Q’s in a response that he gave to a SNP MP , neither has the BBC anything upon this on their UK page, UK politics page or on any of their so called Scottish pages.

So then is this lie said by Burnham at PM Q’s to be classified by the British media as a non story ?

Proof that negative news in relation to UK PM and Scotland is suppressed by the media in Scotland while anything deemed as a “lie” that is spoken by a Scottish FM is then blown way out of proportion and so then promoted as being yet another #SNPBAD story.

The evidence on this is there, it just needs more people in Scotland to join the dots and so then see that as far as the UK media is concerned , well when it comes to Scotland , the UK and politics , it is very much case for the UK media of it being a ‘Us & Them’ situation against both Scotland and the SNP.

This is especially true when they as a UK media report the supposed political news where we are, where we see them being very careful , very selective and obviously very politically partisan whenever it comes to the politics of the UK interfering in Scottish matters and the SNP.

There is a reason many people refer to much of the UK media as being the client media of various pro UK political parties – while Scotland only has one pro independence newspaper (who are a sister paper of a pro UK paper The Herald) whose support for the SNP is at times most questionable.

Liz S