Quote Originally Posted by Returnofrros View Post
Bcram....the quality of news presenters especially in Scotland is appalling.....they are just Govt mouthpieces.

Remember it's almost illegal not to be "kind" in Scotland

The toughest question Herr furious faces on a daily basis is de quel cote du lit veux-tu cherie
Worse than that.
The news presenters particularly on BBC Scotland are told what to say by researchers who put forward their own political point of view which the BBC news presenter then tells us.
Sarah Smith the BBC Scotland political editor in early 2016 admitted that to me when I complained to her that a report that she made on the BBC Scotland news about the upgraded Port Askaig pier which was partly paid for with EU money was a lot of nonsense and factually incorrect.
Sarah Smith replied telling me that she knew nothing about the upgraded Port Askaig pier and she was told what to say by a researcher.
This researcher who was obviously pro EU did not do their homework as the report was full of mistakes including the final cost of the upgraded pier.
The researcher told Sarah Smith that the EU contributed £2.5 million out of the original total cost of the upgraded Port Askaig pier of £5.5 million.
However the final bill for the upgraded Port Askaig pier cost over £17 million and the EU contributed £2.5 million.
Port Askaig pier is owned by Argyll and Bute Council with their own civil engineering staff designing the new pier which was one disaster after another.
The link span for the Calmac ferries was put on the wrong place and even after it being moved to the supposedly correct place it is still a tight fit for the MV Finlaggan ferry.