The New Fat Scotland 'Thanks for all the Fish' Thread.

Moto2

Shakethedisease wrote: »

..... These memes weren't about bigotry, they were about up until now lax vetting procedures and perceived unbalanced audience selections on BBC Question Time. Nothing to do with sectarianism.

Total nonsense, it was bigotry, pure and simple

Shakethedisease

Moto2 wrote: »

Total nonsense, it was bigotry, pure and simple

In your opinion. Mine differs, the BetterTogether meme wasn't about flutes. It was about BBC audience selection, so was the flute one in my opinion. And I say that as someone christened a protestant, with many ardent Glasgow Rangers supporting family members and family splits in past generations because my aunt married a Catholic ( my gran didn't speak to her for many years afterwards ).

Thankfully all of it is dying out now, confined to the past and currently exists in a form which ties itself to belief in a Football team rather than any real religious beliefs. I certainly couldn't care less.

For me the memes were about the BBC... And amusing given previous participants of the show. Simple as that.

beecher2

The guy the meme was about was a UKIP candidate who is a member of the Livingston True Blues Flute Band and was previously on Question Time. There were also memes showing a hunt about to begin, and the Bullington Club. None of it was bigotry, and I don't know how you can be so certain when you didn't see them!

elantan

beecher2 wrote: »

The guy the meme was about was a UKIP candidate who is a member of the Livingston True Blues Flute Band and was previously on Question Time. There were also memes showing a hunt about to begin, and the Bullington Club. None of it was bigotry, and I don't know how you can be so certain when you didn't see them!

But remember you don't need to be certain when your trying to take down yes or snp supporters ... you just need to repeat it often enough

mollycat

Funny how there seems to be bias everywhere...

Any TV news programme that isn't STV

Any newspaper that isn't The National or The Herald

Any collection of random people on BBCQT that don't agree with the minority independence viewpoint .

The reality is that there is actually bias towards the pro indy argument in mainstream media evidenced by what seems a disproportionate exposure to that point of view considering it's level of support.

That doesn't alter the propaganda machine though; screaming disadvantage and unfairness in an effort to obtain even more bias!!

elantan

Oh look those frigates we were promised with a no vote have been cancelled ... shucks never expected that one

islandannie

elantan wrote: »

Oh look those frigates we were promised with a no vote have been cancelled ... shucks never expected that one

How many do you think we will need to build after independence?

Shaka_Zulu

With council elections coming up in May vote wisely.

Shakethedisease

Shaka_Zulu wrote: »

With council elections coming up in May vote wisely.

Vice versa in the opposite case. SNP only or SNP and Green, no other preferences given to any other candidates. However it's a council election, not a referendum rerun and people really should be voting for councilors they think will do the best for their local communities.

For those who follow Scottish media/live here ( elantan, beecher, Hamish and any others ) has it seemed to you that there's been a bit of a stark.. for want of a better phrase 'oh s**t this referendum is actually going to happen' type realisation from the usual media commentators such as David Clegg ( the Daily Record ), David Torrance, Paul Sinclair and even the Economist ? Over the last week or so ? Ok none of them are exactly hanging out the bunting, but they've been saying for months that Sturgeon doesn't really want to do it, holding out for more powers, the SNP are on tae plums blah blah. Almost as if they've just realised there actually IS a pro indy majority in Holyrood and that Sturgeon and Harvie might actually go through with it. Or is it just me ?

Oh and no Scottish Six. I see that's going down a treat... :cool:

baldelectrician

Shaka_Zulu wrote: »

NICOLA Sturgeon spent almost £140,000 of public money on a doomed intervention in the UK Supreme Court hearing on Article 50, it has emerged.

Shouldn't that money have come from SNP coffers? Or is there none left so they have to take it from the Scottish people to pay for their political grandstanding.

Mind you we wouldn't expect anything else.

Definitely money well spent.


The UK government won't reveal how much they spent and will in time


The point- the judgement points out the Sewel convention as worthless and that Scotland does not matter.


The bad news keeps flowing- now the 13 frigates are 8 and the £200m investment in a 'hub' of shipbuilding has bit the dust.


Ties in with the poll on Wings Over Scotland that indicates that people believe the better together promises have not been delivered