MSM Monitor

Watching the watchers

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The BBC's assault on Glasgow should concern everyone in Scotland. The city is collateral damage just as everything in Scotland is when it comes to politics and the BritNats. The constant caricaturing of Scotland as inferior, a mess and in permanent crisis needs to be called out.

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It's happened again! Burnham opens his mouth and blurts something out without thinking and his Downing Street team have to issue 'clarification' statements within 24 hours to clean up his mess.
https://t.co/GdZMTKcdRr

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Reporting Scotland tonight claimed Michael Marra was "making a direct appeal" to the Labour Govt for Rosebank to be given the go ahead and an increase in bank levies. Labour revealed banks would face increased levies eleven days ago. Rosebank is hardly news either. Propaganda to make Marra appear influential.

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STV reporter Vanessa Taaffe tonight accused Stephen Flynn of paving over drains in Largs. Moronic doesn't begin to cover this so-called question. Victims of the storm deserve better than a cheap jibe designed to provoke a reaction from the transport minister. Do better STV.

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BBC Scotland has already turned yesterday's storm into an attack on the SNP Govt. Katie Hunter interviewed Stephen Flynn after some businesses were flooded and pressed him on what he was going to do about it. Whether the SNP Govt would now commit to bailing every business out.

This immediate politicisation of a natural event by the BBC only happens in Scotland.

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The GB Energy con was the cruellest trick played on Scottish voters. Labour promised lower energy bills and 53,000 new Scottish jobs. We got higher bills and no jobs. All over BBC Scotland during the 2024 general election. B4stards.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Household energy bills are forecast to surge by 27% to an average of £2,192 a year from January, according to a new forecast by EDF, one of Britain's biggest energy suppliers

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Andy Burnham's tactic of making scattergun announcements means this last seven days we've had 'Headphones on trains' ... 'Stockpile food' ... 'Olympics north' ... 'War is coming' ... 'Rejoin EU' ... 'Allow free movement' ... 'End rough sleeping'. He's got no actual plans.

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This is what 25 years of Labour rule did to the Welsh NHS.
https://t.co/SxHtrngh64

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Why is there a 'backlash' against Data Centres but no backlash against Labour's demands that new nuclear reactors be built in Scotland.

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A £350m super-hospital that was opened early has been described as "dangerous" and a "disgrace". The hospital has come under fire for long delays, overcrowding, staff shortages and poor quality of care.

Welcome to the Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran opened early by Labour.
https://t.co/aizHkO2UAP

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Your reminder that Labour's previous health secretary called doctors "reckless" for holding "unnecessary" strikes. Wes Streeting also threatened job cuts if strikes went ahead.

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Eleven days after John Healey signalled big banks would be targeted in Wednesday's budget up pops Michael Marra demanding he target big banks. Nothing says 'branch manager' more than demanding your masters announce something they've already decided to announce.

[Michael Marra MSP @michaeljmarra]

When people are struggling to turn up the heating, we should ask the biggest banks to do their bit.

https://t.co/MiWl0inbFv

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Patients with broken hips are dying unnecessarily at Nottingham hospitals trust after being left waiting too long for an operation. Surgeons found those waiting longer than 36 hours for emergency surgery had a 20 per cent higher mortality rate.
https://t.co/5f7EGN3DAy

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Now that the BBC has finally acknowledged that Andy Burnham *didn't* end rough sleeping in Manchester [it initially fell then rose again and is likely back at 2017 levels] we trust any Scottish Labour politicians claiming he ended rough sleeping will be corrected by journalists.

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Consultant doctors in England are to stage a two-day strike next month in a dispute over pay and pensions.
https://t.co/n4ZMbUGMk3

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Let's leave aside the lie that the EU debate hasn't been reopened by Burnham [it clearly has], if broken promises and lies made by the winning side in the EU referendum are a reason to revisit the issue then what about the broken promises and lies made by Better Together in 2014?

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The BBC treats the BMA differently either side of the border when threatening strike action. In England it's treated like a recalcitrant trade union and challenged. In Scotland it's the respected voice of doctors and indulged. Here's Nick Robinson demonstrating this difference.

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BritNat Breakfast lifted a junk story from The Times this morning about the civil service scrapping some roles. You're going to see much more of this from the BBC as *actual* journalism is replaced by sock-puppets reading out anti-SNP stories lifted from BritNat newspaper pages.

Note how Laura Maciver interrupts Shirley Anne Somerville eight seconds into her response. The original question was never meant to be answered, it was always just a set up for the interruption. The aim of the exercise was to persuade listeners that "the public purse" was being used in order to pay people to do nothing.

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Surely an open goal for the SNP to demand Andy Burnham allow a special EU deal for Scotland given he acknowledges Brexit has been a disaster *and* given NI has benefitted from its own special EU deal.

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As predictable as storm damage are the subsequent interviews of Scottish Govt ministers by BBC Scotland presenters. Laura Maciver was at it this morning when trying to antagonise Shirley Anne Somerville. The Scottish Govt didn't prepare enough apparently. Classic BritNat Breakfast.