BBC Anti-Scottish Row

[JennyPiccolo]

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Prepare to be offended, Scottish folk.

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Well, it was broadcast on the BBC, but the comments weren;t made by BBC staff, but by panellists on a discussion programme.

It does not surprise me one whit and I feel too jaded to be offended. It does, however, illuminate a certain BNP type ignorance but the two speakers are most welcome to share their views on Scottish Newsnight with Kirsty (SkullSplitter) Wark.

A former Governor of the BBC? I think that's more than just a panellist. Just shows how long this attitude's been around for, it doesn't make it any more excusable.

That's a bit different, TBE - Anne Ronbinson is a TV presenter, nothing more.

Baroness Deech is a member of the House of Lords (cross-bench peer) and therefore part of the the UK's national legislature. I find it rather more disturbing that she is exhibiting such appalling prejudice against a significant part of the population than some quiz show presenter.

And as for Murray, a director of a society "founded in 2007 to promote human rights, tolerance and greater cohesion among the UK?s ethnic and religious communities and within wider British society" - he's going about that well. His use of adjectives seems a little limited too - there are words other than horrible.

I'm not meaning to sound snippy at you, BTW - I am, as you might expect, a tad angry at this........

I'm not defending their comments. I'm saying that to turn this into a "BBC in anti-scottish broadcast" row is misleading.

It is shocking and there ought to be more of a fuss about it than there has been, but I'm not convinced that it's necessarily "BBC" anti-Scottish bias rather than just incompetent panellists' anti-Scottish bias (although it may well be I can't help suspecting that the BBC would have been in there with damage limitation sooner had it been another group who were being targeted I'd need to see more evidence around that).

From what I read on woad's link, it's not anti-Scottish, it's anti-Scottish Parliament. Not quite the same thing.

I also think that making insulting comments about Alex Salmond and Kenny MacAskill isn't the same as insulting scottish people generally.

"Deech suggested that Scottish politicians should be taken back by Scotland and that Scots relied on English subsidised benefits saying:
?We're all subsidising them I think, by way of benefits and all sorts of reasons, and if they want to show how independent they are, ok, thank you and goodbye.?"

Not just the parliament, Shaz. The suggestion (or perhaps inference) from her statement is that the Scottish population are being 'subsidised'.

In all fairness the Parliament building was never very popular to begin with (too expensive, odd design etc) but we are stuck with it now.
It's inhabitants are expendable - in certain spheres they have let the Scottish people down but it is up to us as a country to sort it out and I fail to see how it affects those panelists directly.

BBC Alba manage to give us some decent current affair/ news/ non Glasgowcentric views so I would just let this one wash over as it merely highlights the ignorant views of , frankly, unimportant bigots.