Wales: am I living in a parallel universe

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So seeing the Scottish debacle hasn't deterred Wales in any way www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64548844

This is one of the most useless bits of reporting I've seen in a while. No mention of the main issues in Scotland (just that big bad Westminster oppose it). No links to any of the massive row that has followed.

Just 'aren't we so progressive.....no other opinions exist', with a bit of nationalism thrown in for good luck.

I don't know whether to laugh of cry

Thanks for highlighting this. I am in despair at them! As if there aren’t more important topics to tackle in wales like poverty and huge health inequalities. I notice the BBC picked a very select representative sample to ask…

Wow, where is the balence in that article and those asked to comment?! Unbelievably biased.

Glad it's not just me. Think I might complain about this one.

I thought some progress had been made with balance but there's no evidence of it here.

I can't get my head round how they can watch Nicola tie herself in knots and knacker her popularity ratings and think 'yes, let's have a bit of that'.

It's utterly bizarre to go into this with no apparent understanding of the wider issues which have been so clearly raised.

I might be misremembering (I'm from Cardiff, but haven't lived there for forty years), but isn't that Park Place/Cardiff University behind those three student aged people who were approached for comment...?

So not one person who wasnt seemingly at university or had a vested interest?

The reporter didn't see any grumpy looking middle aged menopausal women passing by to ask?

Not insulting anyone, just describing myself above! Well, write what you know!

It's advertising isn't it, not journalism? I thought the BBC were retreating from their desperate celebrations of anti women / anti child safeguarding propaganda, no?

'The plan is ambitious but with hope at its heart"

hope?

So hope will deter all the abusers?

'An LGBTQ+ Eisteddfod' too.

What a steaming pile of shit.

As the SNP are demonstrating: yes it's currently terribly fashionable to engage in an ideology that's half religion and based in identifying your own personal reality being true, that evidence and facts that don't suit your reality are disappeared, and anyone who mentions them are subhuman monsters (known as 'haters') that you treat like aliens from planet Zog.

But it doesn't work for people in positions of responsibility, supposedly competent to run something larger than a lemonade stand.

Salmond is the voice of the next step. Which begins with 'wtaf are you on?' and moves on 'and now let's return the leaderships to someone capable of finding their bum with both hands'.

I was thinking about starting a thread on that too.

We should complain formally to the BBC. That is unacceptablly biased journalism. The BBC accept taxpayer funding on conditions and one of them is objectivity.

Transactivism vs women’s rights is one of the issues that will decide the next election, Nicola Sturgeon’s forceful personal views on it followed by her bullying of her Parliament and then the rapist being sent to a women’s jail, may end her career, and result in Scotland deciding against independence from the UK.

Yet the BBC recite this story giving none of the political context, and only quoting people who support the policy without even mentioning the fierce opposition to it. It reads like a Stonewall press release, not BBC journalism.

Perhaps that’s what it is.

I noticed this posted on another thread about Wales. I've just booked my ticket and I thought it would probably be okay to cut and paste onto this thread too. apologies if that's bad form.

This may be a good point to publicise an event being held here in Swansea on 8 March, International Women's Day. It's being held at the Taliesin Arts centre, part of Swansea University and it feels like a first for Wales.

Silencing Women: Academic Freedom and Unthinkable Thoughts
Jo Phoenix, Alice Sullivan and Judith Suissa, will be talking about their fight to maintain sex-based research and the loss of freedom of speech in academia.

Joan Smith, who's on the advisory panel of Sex Matters, will chair.

This has been organised by a small group of GC women in the area and will be a great opportunity for women in Wales to come and meet and network with like-minded people. If you're a GC woman within hitting distance of Swansea, do please come along.

The best way of booking a ticket is here:
taliesinartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873643473

I've been trying to post the flyer but it's either too big or not in the right format.

It would be good if some South Wales MNers could meet up.

@pattihews I've got a grumpy middle aged menopausal sister in Cardiff, I'll see if she's free to go along!

Just catching up on this now. BBC have updated the story:

“The original version of this story was amended to reflect a more editorially appropriate range of views”

And yet again the biased version went out first, reached most readers, programmed them in the biased way preferred, and then after it had been read by most was quietly updated in a way that prevents justified complaints. Bastards.

The licence fee days are so very, very over. This lot need to be paid for by the ones they're busy doing party political broadcasts for.

I see Starmer and other Labour politicians are doing the rounds claiming they will modernise the GRA too. FFs can none of them read the room?

It's going so well in Scotland's too.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/man-arrested-over-missing-scots-29159271

@NImumconfused Please do: every ticket helps. Lots of costs to cover. Tell your sister to take a friend or several!