Should Sarah Smith be taken off air

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Aibu to think this kind of biased opinion has no place on the BBC

“It has been obvious that Nicola Sturgeon has enjoyed the opportunity to set her own lockdown rules and not have to follow what's happening in England and other parts of the UK”.

Sarah Smith, BBC News at 10 (18/5/20)

She used the word 'outwith' on the main news last week.

One of my favourite words and now have my english colleagues using it as it is so bloody useful.

It's a devolution issue - of course NS is not enjoying managing corona virus, but equally it's fair to say that she is able to make her own decisions for Scotland, and that' the opportunity as I understand it.

Don't get the outrage.

Indeed, I'm not a Tory or a Boris fan, but the abuse he gets (no doubt some of it justified) is incredible. the SNP seem to have most of the media scared of them.

I remember seeing Joanna Cherry on QT time once in some English town - can't recall where. A question came in from the audience that had nothing to do with Scotland and Scottish Independendence yet when it came to Cherry she someone managed to turn it into another diatribe about Indy. The audience audibly sighed and a few started to titter - not laugh out loud - but just sort of a good natured 'here we go again' and her response was a stern finger wagging rebuke - 'be careful, I wouldn't be laughing if I were you, Scotland is watching ....' and honestly it was like a headteacher lecturing a bunch of school kids. The level of the SNP's self importance is off the scale.

I also watched a debate in the Scottish parliament about something or other once, and this SNP woman - not sure who it was - actually said 'the eyes of the world are watching this debate'. No they're not love. The rest of the world couldn't give a shiny shit what goes on in the Scottish Parliament. Like Scotland is the centre of the bloody universe.

Sorry Nicola et al, but you ain't.

She used the word 'outwith' on the main news last week. It is not a word used in England.
And...?

The BBC always sneaks opinions in among the facts. The idea of a non partisan news agency doesn't really work.

The majority of SNP supporters, at least on Mumsnet, ‘enjoy’ being professionally outraged all day every day, it seems.

"truly disgusting comment".

Hardly. Don't get your nationalist knickers in a knot.

No she shouldn't be taken off air, FFS. She was voicing her opinion, which she is or rather should be completely entitled to do so.
The world really has cracked its bleeding face. No one can say anything with out there being a witch hunt.

I can't stand NS but in no way do I think she's 'enjoying' anything right now. It was a shit way for Smith to put her opinion, which, she should keep to herself in her role with the BBC.

@Bibijayne, you're 100 % right, it absolutely is England who has gone it alone, I'm not sure anyone could argue otherwise tbh. Though sitting where I am you'd think that lockdown had been completely lifted in England with the amount of people out and about.

I think today's cancel/sack/inform employer/contact their clients/remove funding/ruin their whole lives culture, because someone said something that wasn't agreed with or liked is fucking terrifying. We have slept walked into an authoritarian regime where the general public are the ones repressing each other and we did it entirely by ourselves with the aid of social media.

Anyone actually read the very personal and insulting comments aimed at-predominantly female- journalists on Twitter? Not just today- all the time. In this instance, One word on air is called out, yet by using Twitter to respond (by the politician), Sarah Smith is subjected to personal and grotesque language directed at her. This could have been resolved quietly and behind doors and the politician could have used Twitter for a positive response about their conversation. I don’t think journalists and politicians should be using social media to respond or offer personal opinion.

We’re expected to believe that someone of her supposed intelligence didn’t notice at the time that she’d said “enjoying” instead of “embracing”?
Does she think we’re stupid?

'Enjoy' has two meanings: take pleasure from, and benefit from. I am sure NS would agree that Scotland has benefitted from being able to set its own policy - as would most Scots.

Sarah Smith's only mistake was in over-estimating the intelligence of her audience. Some of you clearly need a more dumbed-down approach.

YABU. Of course she shouldn’t be taken off air. She’s absolutely right!

Nicola Sturgeon is like a milk monitor at school that’s been given too much responsibility.

She apologised! So there must be something to apologise for.

Or she was terrified her whole life would be ground to dust and she'd lose her entire career and ability to support herself and her family over one comment.

She used the word 'outwith' on the main news last week. It is not a word used in England

Oh my! And what did the Police say?

Hardly. Don't get your nationalist knickers in a knot

It was a disgusting comment because she's a staunch Unionist. Hates the SNP and knew exactly whst she was saying. Even with her pathetic apology on twitter no doubt she will be "enjoying" the stooshie she has caused. And my knickers are perfectly fine thanks. I'm not outraged. Just so depressing and predictable.
But I will just thank my lucky stars I am in Scotland and the SNP are in charge, no matter how much this seems to annoy certain people.

'Enjoy' has two meanings: take pleasure from, and benefit from. I am sure NS would agree that Scotland has benefitted from being able to set its own policy - as would most Scots.

Sarah Smith's only mistake was in over-estimating the intelligence of her audience. Some of you clearly need a more dumbed-down approach.

Did she have the same approach when she said that The Scottish Government has always said that their policy was based on expert advice and not politics, but Nicola had embraced the opportunity to not follow England?

But I will just thank my lucky stars I am in Scotland and the SNP are in charge, no matter how much this seems to annoy certain people.

LagunaBubbles That doesn’t annoy me It does make me pity you though.

It's all moot anyway. They will be 'following England' before the month is out anyway - May 28th to be precise - so just over a week.

We're all going in the same direction, just that Scotland is a little slower in getting there

What frightens me is the fact hat some people can’t just express a differing opinion without resulting to insults.

She didn’t apologise she actually said she used the wrong word and meant embraced hardly that’s is the oldest excuse in the book. A proper apology would have been better.

She didn’t apologise she actually said she used the wrong word and meant embraced hardly that’s is the oldest excuse in the book. A proper apology would have been better.

She doesn’t need to apologise She hasn’t done anything wrong.

Lots of people here confusing Scotland and the SNP. If you think someone has said something bad about Nicola Sturgeon, you should talk about SNP-bashing (if you have to use that grievance-hunting, inferiority-complex suffering term) not Scotland-bashing.

What frightens me is the fact hat some people can’t just express a differing opinion without resulting to insults.

Which is what SS did, that NS found it insulting is not the same as it being insulting....

Anyone calling for journalists to be sacked because they say something they don't like needs to admit they are opposed to a free press.

who?