I couldn't agree more re these comments and Matt I just wanna say that I am not anti-English and refute that insinuation as I have done previously when, oddly enough, you've come out with the same shit before!!! I previously lived in England with lotsa good contacts, my wife is from Kent and my father-in-law is originally from London and ex-navy - THEY ALL WANT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE NOW AS DO ALL MY FAMILY MEMBERS!!! The theme of my criticisms centres on the amazing transformation (for the worst!) of politics and attitudes IN CERTAIN REGIONS OF ENGLAND AND INSIDE WESTMINSTER since Cameron's PM time and possibly even before that during Blair's period of governance! The antics in England and in Westminster politics have been unacceptably poisonous for quite a long time. The Scot position north of Hadrian's Wall is different and that is a fact although lotsa people are as concerned re the outcome of this General Election and the destabilising effect it could have on the country - no different from Amelia's previous genuine concerns but she is resident in England and I can still empathise with her position and others with huge concerns that could affect the future prospects of them and others who wish to see progressive governance and a push towards a fair society - a huge challenge for any true prospective govt! Jim is "spot on" re a future government in Scotland possibly evolving beyond the SNP but at the current time IMO every unionist political party up here is absolutely obsessed with an affiliation to the Union and their mandatory obligation to align themselves with the diktat from said parent political party in England with a real "disconnect" from Scot public opinion to the point of being absolutely disrespectful with ridiculous misrepresentations and lies. The SNP hierarchy and govt don't do that and their mandate is absolutely clear to a Scottish electorate that knows what it is voting for and who best represents Scottish interests. Lastly, as Jim iterated in the previous thread, it is important to Scottish interests, and Europe for that matter, to see some kinda stabilisation finally prevail in English politics and the macro economic structure of the country but England (not being racist(????) about this at all btw) still seems to be inexorably polarised by all the shit of the day, the history of which has been debated often enough on this Sb board and others, and I won't bother with repetition on the subject of how David Cameron "let the genie out of the bottle" and the subsequent recriminations where IMO the "damage" will last for years.
Following on from such unscrupulous practise by the Tories, I notice the bbc is now "under fire" again in some intense debates on Twitter as it has been discovered that they "doctored" the bbc leaders' footage on later bbc news reports in order to miss out the laughing audience when Johnson mentioned how trustworthy he was. Their excuse was that they wanted to "shorten the footage" but, as pointed out by many critics of the bbc, they conveniently do this to favour one political group i.e. the Tories!!! So consistent and irritating and yet the bbc hierarchy occasionally refer to their "impartiality" being paramount- their impudence is breathtaking, what a joke, it is not objective and they should at least be reported to OFCOM!! Meanwhile I notice that on the day before the deadline date to register to vote, it has been confirmed that 70% of voters who are aged 18-24 years have not registered - just confirms what I said in a previous thread re the significance of the "oldie vote" and the extreme views that appear to predominate within that group of people!!! IMO as said in many a previous thread - we should have a mandatory vote like practised in the likes of Australia but it will never be introduced because the status quo suits political parties like the Tories in an electoral system that is not "fit for purpose" and is now only practised in three countries in Europe incl the UK!!
(21-11-2019, 19:17)spireitematt Wrote: This is getting really worrying now. The Tories have doctored an interview from 3rd October with Jess Phillips talking about manifestos and the Tories are trying to say that it was done today. They've also gone and created a website called https://www.labourmanifesto.co.uk/# and they have gone top of the search list on Google to sort of pretend that they are the Labour party and that's the website to read the Labour manifesto.
Following on from such unscrupulous practise by the Tories, I notice the bbc is now "under fire" again in some intense debates on Twitter as it has been discovered that they "doctored" the bbc leaders' footage on later bbc news reports in order to miss out the laughing audience when Johnson mentioned how trustworthy he was. Their excuse was that they wanted to "shorten the footage" but, as pointed out by many critics of the bbc, they conveniently do this to favour one political group i.e. the Tories!!! So consistent and irritating and yet the bbc hierarchy occasionally refer to their "impartiality" being paramount- their impudence is breathtaking, what a joke, it is not objective and they should at least be reported to OFCOM!! Meanwhile I notice that on the day before the deadline date to register to vote, it has been confirmed that 70% of voters who are aged 18-24 years have not registered - just confirms what I said in a previous thread re the significance of the "oldie vote" and the extreme views that appear to predominate within that group of people!!! IMO as said in many a previous thread - we should have a mandatory vote like practised in the likes of Australia but it will never be introduced because the status quo suits political parties like the Tories in an electoral system that is not "fit for purpose" and is now only practised in three countries in Europe incl the UK!!