The BBC managed to shoot itself in both feet. It over-hyped the more powers that were being offered by the former prime minister Gordon Brown in his road map. Then, the BBCs Nick Robinson told the 10 OClock News on Thursday that the First Minister had refused to answer his question on the banks, unaware that fully 100,000 people on the internet had already watched a viral video of Salmond doing exactly that, to apparent applause from the international press corps.The level of ignorance about Scotland in the metropolitan media was a revelation, even to me. I spent much of last week appearing on UK BBC radio and TV programmes, repeatedly being told by interviewers that 11,000 jobs RBS jobs were to leave Scotland when the banks themselves had said there were no implications for jobs... The shock announcement in February that Westminster would rule out any currency union after independence - not even think about it, not even discuss it - was a key moment in the disintegration of the old Union. That was the moment many Scots realised that the Union they thought was a partnership of nations was not a partnership at all. London was claiming exclusive rights to the common currency of the UK. It was as if the whole history of the Union had suddenly been rewritten as an afterthought to the British imperialism. I never say how I will vote in elections. It is not my role as a journalists to tell people how to vote or promote the interests of any particular party. The only party Ive ever been involved with is Labour and that was an eternity ago. But this isnt an election; it is a referendum on the future of the country I live in, and I will be voting Yes.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 08:50:09 +0000
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