BBC & Scottish Independence Debate

There are many things I could focus on this week, such as what is happening in Socchi, or the flooding of parts of the UK but what I really want to discuss at the moment is what is happening at the BBC with regard to the 'Independence debate'. Over the past year or more I have slowly but surely become more disgusted at the blatant lack of objectivity that the BBC has shown in this debate and in everything surrounding it.

My partner asks me why I am surprised, given how much of a voice-box they have become for the government but I genuinely felt that, as an allegedly independent broadcasting corporation, they would remain impartial. No such luck. The programmes produced over the past few months about Scotland and the Scottish debate have all been from a vote no point of view, nostalgic for 'best of british' and generally negative on anything remotely regarded as being in the yes campaign. There is no proper discussion, merely politician after politician being strutted out in front of thee camera to make comments on why we are safer to stay in the UK.

They do not mention the fact that it is looking more and more likely that the folks south of the border will vote the Tory party in yet again, further rippling those in need and killing off the NHS - something that, yet again, Scotland will have zero say in. If we are to be free of the Conservative party we need to vote yes. If we are to ever decide for ourselves who we want to govern us, we have to vote yes. All the scaremongering in the world from the BBC and the PM cannot change these facts.

I think its about time that the BBC pulled back from the debate completely if they cannot be impartial they should not report anything regarding this topic. It has put me off the BBC to the extent that I have stopped watching anything on the BBC and have switched to other channels.

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Scotland's Referendum and the BBC

Firstly, yesterday saw the announcement of the date for the Scottish Referendum. It will be held on the 18th of September in 2014. They now have 18 months to get everything in order and have answers to all the questions people are likely to have prior to that time.

I have to note that the BBC have blocked comments on their political website from Scottish people. No one in Scotland can comment on this page - the Scottish political page which features the clearly biased Brian Taylor. This is the story on the issue in full Link

Hopefully the time has finally come to stop talking about process and to start debating the facts. This comes immediately after the Scottish government have been shafted by Westminster on the Budget - we will receive £50 million less than was expected, in a terrible bid by Westminster to maintain power over the northern part of the UK.

Mainstream coverage at the moment seems to be lacking in facts, especially with regard to the independent point of view. There is clearly too much propaganda and unionist bias within major media outlets. The only views in the news coverage at the moment state that Scotland will be worse off without the union when in fact there is far more information in support of a profitable independent Scotland, between oil and gas, renewable energy technology, tourism, exports etc.

On another note, I have written 3 books. 2 are part of a series set in Scoltand about the Sidhe, fairy folk. Available on kindle and in paperback:

The Island of the Mist is book 2

The Stone in the Sword is book 1

The 3rd book is an adult, sexy witchy werewolf/vampire story set in New York and featuring a strong female lead character, again available in kindle and paperback formats:

The Wolf, the Witch and the Coffin