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Well said. The fact IMO that BBC Scotland produces such tripe doesn't help either. If you want to argue further, BBC Scotland like the SNP again IMO, doesn't represent the whole country, but mainly the central belt, with the exception of BBC Alba which again only caters for a minority of the country.
The SNP want it every which way that is possible with the BBC. If the BBC pledged to spend 9% of the license fee on Scottish only programming for Scotland made in Scotland, then they'd say that the quality was pish. They are supposedly part of this understanding, progressive, pro-public sector alliance - yet are putting forward proposals that would cost the BBC a fortune at a time that it's being f*cked from every angle by the government. BBC Scotland don't have the facilities to make more programming for Scotland or network as it stands - the SNP have pledged multiple times for a Media City in Pacific Quay but these plans have never been completed. It's not like they've been in government for eight years.
Other than the nationalism, I'm ideologically very similar to the SNP and Plaid but what the SNP are doing here is similar to the UKIP stance on the EU. They are propping up the BBC as some kind of establishment, anti-Scottish organisation, (which it isn't) throwing bias allegations (which apart from one Nick Robinson incident that he has apologised for are baseless) at them and trying to put the Beeb in the 'them' category. It's classic nationalism and no different from other nationalist parties from the left and the right. You create an insider 'us' grouping and an outsider 'them' grouping. They are stirring up the sh*t left behind from one poorly worded question from the former Political Editor. Alex Salmond will happily go on the pile-of-sh*te RT and slag of the BBC, but I doubt he's refusing to cash those cheques from his numerous appearances on This Week and probably HIGNFY which I'll expect him to return to. The SNP are trying for a fight with the BBC, the BBC shouldn't rise to it. If the SNP were serious about this Scottish culture village then they would have started on it by now, they haven't, they're just using it as a stick to beat the BBC with.
When they get independence and set up the SBS denying the BBC of money - I hope that BBC Worldwide charges them double for the rights to broadcast their shows. Why should the BBC give programmes for free to a foreign broadcaster that would, in that scanerio, be partially responsible for a gaping whole in funding.
Other than the nationalism, I'm ideologically very similar to the SNP and Plaid but what the SNP are doing here is similar to the UKIP stance on the EU. They are propping up the BBC as some kind of establishment, anti-Scottish organisation, (which it isn't) throwing bias allegations (which apart from one Nick Robinson incident that he has apologised for are baseless) at them and trying to put the Beeb in the 'them' category. It's classic nationalism and no different from other nationalist parties from the left and the right. You create an insider 'us' grouping and an outsider 'them' grouping. They are stirring up the sh*t left behind from one poorly worded question from the former Political Editor. Alex Salmond will happily go on the pile-of-sh*te RT and slag of the BBC, but I doubt he's refusing to cash those cheques from his numerous appearances on This Week and probably HIGNFY which I'll expect him to return to. The SNP are trying for a fight with the BBC, the BBC shouldn't rise to it. If the SNP were serious about this Scottish culture village then they would have started on it by now, they haven't, they're just using it as a stick to beat the BBC with.
When they get independence and set up the SBS denying the BBC of money - I hope that BBC Worldwide charges them double for the rights to broadcast their shows. Why should the BBC give programmes for free to a foreign broadcaster that would, in that scanerio, be partially responsible for a gaping whole in funding.
Well said. The fact IMO that BBC Scotland produces such tripe doesn't help either. If you want to argue further, BBC Scotland like the SNP again IMO, doesn't represent the whole country, but mainly the central belt, with the exception of BBC Alba which again only caters for a minority of the country.