Freedom Central » SNP http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:40:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The nationalists and the BBC http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2010/03/the-nationalists-and-the-bbc.html http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/2010/03/the-nationalists-and-the-bbc.html#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:11:54 +0000 Peter Black http://www.freedomcentral.org.uk/?p=3034
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    • ]]>     I missed this when it first came out but it seems that Plaid Cymru and the SNP are so upset at being excluded from the Prime Ministerial debates that they are threatening to take their toys home.

    The BBC report that each of the parties is to look again at their broadcasting policy and their support for the license fee in response to what they call a ‘stitch up’ over live Prime Ministerial TV debates:

    SNP Westminster Leader Angus Robertson MP argued that broadcasters, “in cahoots” with the three political parties who would be taking part in the debates, are attempting to exclude entire countries from them.

    He said: “A stitch up between the London based BBC management and the London parties has disenfranchised voters in three countries.

    “With the cavalier attitude of London establishment continuing, we must devolve broadcasting to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly – where the interests of Scottish and Welsh licence payers will be a priority, not an afterthought.”

    So the Nationalists want to take over the BBC so that they can dictate what they broadcast. How democratic. As for the withdrawal of support for the licence fee I bet the BBC Trust are shaking in their boots.

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