SCOTS have reacted with fury after BBC presenter Kaye Adams claimed that Nicola Sturgeon is “not a human being” during her morning show on Wednesday.
During a discussion about the UK Covid Inquiry, the host was talking to National columnist Kelly Given about the former first minister’s WhatsApp messages.
During the discussion, Given said: “Why are we holding these people to account as if they’re not human beings? Nicola Sturgeon got a new phone or deleted her messages or whatever…”
Adams then cut in to say: “Because in this instance they’re not human beings, they’re politicians.”
A number of people have taken to social media to react to the comments, with SNP MP Pete Wishart saying: “Absolutely shocking. I hope @BBCScotland think about an apology, or at least some sort of correction, for this.”
Elsewhere, SNP councillor Math Campbell-Sturgess added: “This kind of dehumanising language is bad enough from callers – for a host to say this is beyond the pale.
“MPs have been murdered. I have to carry a security device when working due to the threat to all parliamentary staff. She needs to resign.”
A number of other social media users called on Ofcom to investigate the comments while another described the phrasing as “utterly bizarre”.
Meanwhile, the popular pro-independence account MSM Monitor echoed the thoughts of Campbell-Sturgess, saying: “This remark is not just offensive but dangerous for all too obvious reasons.”
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Others meanwhile pointed out the uproar when Gary Lineker compared the UK Government’s immigration policies to 1930s Germany and suggested that Adams’s comments should be taken just as seriously.
We also told on Thursday how Màiri McAllan had been critical of Good Morning Scotland for its “flippant” coverage of conscription.
Head of the British Army General Patrick Sanders had warned in a speech on Wednesday that the UK’s army was so depleted that the country would need to “mobilise the nation” in the event the country went to war.
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