UNBELIEVABLE coverage of our FM’s first year in post! While accepting there have been good times and some not so good, I was as usual outraged at BBC and STV and their biased approach.
As usual their starting position was that Scotland is crap at everything, and so followed the opening comments about our FM: “opponents say he is useless”, “he’s a nice enough fellow but not up to the job” said the two branch-office leaders of the British parties. This was followed by a regurgitation of the “missing SNP money” followed by aerial footage of the tents, the vans and the spades!
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Comments from Kate Forbes, who didn’t say a lot, and Ash Regan, who had a few barbed comments about his predecessor. Nothing from his closest allies like Deputy First Minister Shona Robison or Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, both of whom would have brought some balance to the news item.
A poor standard of journalism contributing nothing but Unionist negativity, blatant Unionist propaganda and raw rudeness.
Jan Ferrie
Ayrshire
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