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What is the great Scottish plan for this?
https://www.gov.uk/displaying-number-plates/flags-symbols-and-identifiers
Going to be expensive in printing all the new plates or do they plan to just continue calling themselves Great Britain?
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This has been bugging me:
Do you not find it troubling the way the BBC has been so biased in their coverage when it should be politically neutral?
This demonization of the BBC, of which the above is not an isolated example. You typically get it from governments with aggressive agendas, usually with attacks on specific journalists (Tebbit attacking Adie, Blair/Campbell attacking Gilligan), the Israelis try it all the time, the Russians are doing it ever more violently (see today’s news). It comes with the territory and for the BBC the territory is a serious attempt to tell the truth, something at which it quite often succeeds. This is so patently obvious that it is easy to miss, and easy to dismiss. Sure the BBC is badly managed, sure it sometimes betrays unexamined assumptions, and sometimes betrays its staff make-up which although politically very diverse is mainly middle class (ie, like the whole country). But the BBC remains a counterweight to propaganda that has no parallel anywhere in the world. Why else are politicians always trying to destroy it?
Where does Scotland stand on this if independent? If attacks on the BBC's integrity come with the territory, what's the problem?
If Scotland voted Yes then either BBC Scotland would close or it would continue but funded by the Scottish Government or some other source - there is no way the rUK licence-fee payer would fund Scotland. Is it seriously proposed that a BBC iScotland (the supposed 'Scottish Broadcasting Service') answering to a nationalist Scottish government, without the BBC’s unique global network and without the context of a century’s worth of history and experience in defending itself against government interference would be able to do the job BBC Scotland does? That’s deluded. You’d end up with an Irish-style gameshow broadcaster plus a Fox News for nationalists. I’m sure Salmond’s pal Murdoch has detailed plans for this on his desk right now.
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Love it!
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big businesses interfering in democratic process
How? I haven't seen any interference. If you think a company director speaking about politics is interference in the democratic process, then I hope you also think Alex Salmond should be silenced too - political parties and corporations are both just groups of private citizens who appoint representatives to act in the interest of the group members.
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I think they may have bigger fish to fry
If they succeed in joining the EU, and with it the Common Fisheries Policy, they probably won't have any fish to fry.
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This polling thing is a cnnch.
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Do you mean when they're planning to put the final count to the sword?
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