Scottish Election coverage

smgboi - Anne has never been patronising and I doubt she'll start now. Perhaps, her other colleagues are though?
I am just surprised that such a big circus comes from a council election. I bet that most people in England do not care what we do up here. It is just not a big issue for many people down south!!

Watched Scotland Debates the other night, and it looks as though Jack is gonnae be given a real run for his money come the elections. The other party leaders made our First Minister look a right jester, however in saying that is there anyone who wonders if Alex will fulfull his promises or is he just and only interested in breaking up Britain?

3rd May is also the date of Welsh Assembly elections; presumably the programme will cover these and the English local elections too.

Anne MacKenzie has presented the 'meet the leaders' debates for a couple of elections now - these have usually taken place in the Kelvin Gallery at Glasgow University, sometimes with studio audiences.

on BBC right : The Big Debates The Environment:

Anne Mackenzie is doing this

Bernie is giving our First Minister a good grilling right now on STV. Jack is not faring well at all. It is a pity that STV election programmes have all been central belt based, unlike the BBC.
Was that a mobile phone ringing at the start of the show?

The ABC's Foreign Correspondent had a story on Scottish nationalism last week - I thought it was quite a good one.

For some reason there isn't any video up, but you can read the transcript here or the synopsis here.

nyyrrrrrPING.

Do you know what that was? That was the sound of a very old joke wearing so thin that it snapped. now STOP IT, it's tiresome.



More importantly, why is the BBC Scotland bus so knacky and battered?
http://www.hymagumba.com/uploads/bbc-election-bus.jpg

Surely something slightly better could have been found for housing fabulous Jackie? (her coat in real life was even more fabulous than it looks there btw)

It's like that becuase 2 years ago it was dragged across the UK for Election 2005.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/images/bank/election05/300election_bus.jpg

Look closely and it's the same number plate

also the bus is "MCW metrobus Mk1" made aroudn 1986-7 tmaily english companys brought them

what A disgrece!

STV has nothing on thurdasy instead we HAVE S***BALL!
at least the bbc has all night coveage

Its also seem ITN can't be arsed showing English result niether!

To be pendantic, at the time that bus was new, the MCW Metrobus Mk1 was being built solely for London Transport. Most other operators in the UK had by then switched to the Mk2 model which was lauched a few years earlier. London Transport, however, wouldn't buy the Mk2 Metrobus and insisted on still buying the earlier version.

The Metrobus was also available for other builders to body. It was built between 1978 and 1989, when MCW closed down.

Now, back to the main topic.....

I know this thread is about the Scottish Elections, but seeing as the Welsh Assembly Election is also held on Thursday - in case anyone's interested, the coverage down here is as follows :

BBC One Wales 2235-0600 with Huw Edwards and BBC Wales Political Editor Betsan Powys
ITV Wales 2330-0530 with Wales Tonight presenter Jonathan Hill
S4C 2200- 2205 preview, then 2230-0530* with Dewi Llwyd and BBC Welsh Affairs Editor Vaughan Roderick
BBC Radio Wales 2200-0600 with Richard Evans and Bethan Rhys-Roberts
BBC Radio Cymru 2200-0600 with Garry Owen

*BTW the 0530 ending might be a bit optimistic from what I hear a number of results could be later - especially the regional list seats which are counted by a devilish-ly complicated form of PR