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Written by Indy Richard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on 2025-01-11 at 12:42

Ask yourself why BBC Scotland constantly talk down the achievements of our country and our people and why they go to such lengths to portray us as less than we are. Ask why Scotland is never shown to be a modern, progressive and wealthy place well capable of being a successful independent state. Ask yourself why BBC Scotland never hint that we are being held back by London rule.

The BBC in Scotland. Far from balanced or fair.

[#]Scotland

[#]ScottishIndependence

[#]BBCScotlandBiasAndLies

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Written by Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ on 2025-01-11 at 12:54

@IndyRichard Why does BBC Scotland present a rotisserie of films about rural smallholders and ferries teetering on their last legs?

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-11 at 16:17

@christineburns @IndyRichard they can’t possibly present an image of Scotland as an advanced progressive nation. We might get ideas above our station.

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Written by Jimmy Havok on 2025-01-11 at 13:06

@IndyRichard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Scots_Invented_the_Modern_World

Fun read...

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-11 at 16:20

@jhavok @IndyRichard I would seriously dispute the label Europe’s poorest nation. After union the English were heard to say they have catched Scotland and would not let her go.

That certainly does not sit true with the epithet of a poor nation.

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Written by Jimmy Havok on 2025-01-11 at 18:35

@peterbrown @IndyRichard The book has accounts of several times where the Scottish almost caught the English. Being ruled by the English had a lot to do with the poverty. Saxons seem to be a bad lot.

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-12 at 00:19

@jhavok @IndyRichard the union was brought about by bribery and corruption along with a side serving of intimidation. England wanted Scotland’s commerce on which to raise taxes and they wanted Scotland to share England’s huge National Debt.

The union impoverished Scotland and full recovery took almost 100 years .

In fact, Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was written to try and understand why Scotland’s economy had collapsed so completely and so abruptly.

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Written by Jimmy Havok on 2025-01-12 at 00:28

@peterbrown @IndyRichard Disdain for the English is in my blood.

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-12 at 01:28

@jhavok @IndyRichard well here they are our neighbours 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Written by Jimmy Havok on 2025-01-12 at 02:05

@peterbrown @IndyRichard Not the best neighbors to have.

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-12 at 08:31

@jhavok @IndyRichard it will be fine when they’re just neighbours.

Not so good when we’re under their control.

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Written by AN/CRM-114 on 2025-01-12 at 02:12

@jhavok @IndyRichard

A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ENTERED THE RING

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-basque-history-of-the-world-by-mark-kurlansky-103328238/

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Written by Bodhipaksa on 2025-01-11 at 13:38

@IndyRichard They're "BBC North Britain."

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Written by Bodhipaksa on 2025-01-11 at 17:06

@IndyRichard For anyone who doesn't know, after the union of the crowns in 1603 and especially after the Act of Union in 1707, attempts were made to eradicate the very name "Scotland." The country was often officially called "North Britain. Army regiments officially changed their names from "Scots" to "North British." There was a North British Railway and a North British Hotel in Edinburgh. It was an attempt at cultural eradication and suppression, which BBC North Britain continues to this day.

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Written by David John Crook on 2025-01-12 at 08:46

@bodhipaksa @IndyRichard

So is that why the Teenage Fanclub record is called "Songs from Northern Britain"?

I am always very puzzled by BBC Scotland when I visit. The impression to me is that it is made in England with Scottish accents.

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Written by AllyPally on 2025-01-12 at 09:48

@bodhipaksa @IndyRichard An English relative always wrote our address as street, town, county, N.B. but got offended when my father addressed letters to her as S.B. “I live in England!”

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Written by Charlie Phillips/Dolphinchaz on 2025-01-11 at 14:01

@IndyRichard Although we Scots tend towards being modest and self deprecating, the BBC Scotland cabal do tend to be miserable, snarky, negative bastards.

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Written by Peter Brown on 2025-01-11 at 16:21

@Dolphinchaz @IndyRichard it’s their job. They have to present Scotland as a nation which can’t, not as a nation which can do.

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