BBC Commonwealth coverage

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Do any of you staunch unionists on here know what the first B stands for in BBC?

Reason I ask is that I've been watching the Commonwealth Games coverage, been some great performances by all nations with the home nations really excelling. But for some reason during one of events last week where Scotland took gold and NI took silver with England nowhere near it was announced as 'great for team GB' - ten minutes later a gold for England was declared as 'great for team England'.

This morning there was some mixed diving, Scotland won gold in one of the events with a cracking performance. While the medal presentation was ongoing and the Scottish National Anthem was being played two English divers who had just won gold in another event were being unterviewed - no attempt to show the live medal presentation and total disregard for the national anthem of a British nation by the BBC. Disclaimer - whether you recognise Flower Of Scotland as the Scottish National Anthem is irrelevant, it's recognised by the event committee and supposedly by the BBC as a National Anthem and should be respected as such - they should not have conducted an interview whilst this orv any other anthem was being played.

Five minutes on and there's live coverage of an English gold medal presentation with total respect shown to the tune chosen by the team as the English National Anthem - strangely also, and more traditionally, the anthem of the Women's Institute IMO another Kow Tow to female supremacy.

Scant coverage has been given to any Welsh or NI success, Guernsey got a few medals and received more coverage than either nation.

So, is the BBC a British institution or an English one? I'm saying English. Should they not therefore re-brand as the EBC?

I'm about to do an Islay and send a strongly worded email to my MP about the disrespect shown to the Scottish National Anthem - I doubt the stuck up arsehole will do anything about it but worth a go I suppose.

[BCram]

Some very fair comments. I think the BBC has no hope of actually being a British organisation within Britain. Scots who want independence appear not to want anything to do with the concept of being British and Scottish, while the independence idea is being promoted. No matter what they do they get pelters.

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Do any of you staunch unionists on here know what the first B stands for in BBC?

Reason I ask is that I've been watching the Commonwealth Games coverage, been some great performances by all nations with the home nations really excelling. But for some reason during one of events last week where Scotland took gold and NI took silver with England nowhere near it was announced as 'great for team GB' - ten minutes later a gold for England was declared as 'great for team England'.

This morning there was some mixed diving, Scotland won gold in one of the events with a cracking performance. While the medal presentation was ongoing and the Scottish National Anthem was being played two English divers who had just won gold in another event were being unterviewed - no attempt to show the live medal presentation and total disregard for the national anthem of a British nation by the BBC. Disclaimer - whether you recognise Flower Of Scotland as the Scottish National Anthem is irrelevant, it's recognised by the event committee and supposedly by the BBC as a National Anthem and should be respected as such - they should not have conducted an interview whilst this orv any other anthem was being played.

Five minutes on and there's live coverage of an English gold medal presentation with total respect shown to the tune chosen by the team as the English National Anthem - strangely also, and more traditionally, the anthem of the Women's Institute IMO another Kow Tow to female supremacy.

Scant coverage has been given to any Welsh or NI success, Guernsey got a few medals and received more coverage than either nation.

So, is the BBC a British institution or an English one? I'm saying English. Should they not therefore re-brand as the EBC?

I'm about to do an Islay and send a strongly worded email to my MP about the disrespect shown to the Scottish National Anthem - I doubt the stuck up arsehole will do anything about it but worth a go I suppose.

B stands for Broadcasting I think

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B stands for Broadcasting I think

I knew you were going to say that so stressed the first B.

Must be great to be so predictable. You're due me a pint for that or I'll read your mind again and tell people exactly what you're thinking...................oh wait.

[jdfc]

I thought it was the
Buggering Broadcasting Company

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I thought it was the
Buggering Broadcasting Company

C obviously stands for chip 😂

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And how anyone can think flower of Scotland is better than Jerusalem......God help them.

Last night at the proms versus random X factor contestant screeching at Hampden.

No contest

[BCram]

And how anyone can think flower of Scotland is better than Jerusalem......God help them.

Last night at the proms versus random X factor contestant screeching at Hampden.

No contest

Pat Kane doesn't think Flower of Scotland is appropriate.
Writer and singer Pat Kane also backs the work of Robert Burns. He said: 'I hate "Flower of Scotland" -*it's martial, mournful, aggressive and anti-English. I would much prefer that the Scottish national anthem was Burns's 'A Man's A Man For 'a That'.13 Apr 2003

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Pat Kane doesn't think Flower of Scotland is appropriate.
Writer and singer Pat Kane also backs the work of Robert Burns. He said: 'I hate "Flower of Scotland" -*it's martial, mournful, aggressive and anti-English. I would much prefer that the Scottish national anthem was Burns's 'A Man's A Man For 'a That'.13 Apr 2003

I hate Burns, his poetry, his songs, his history and the fact that we're all expected to laud his work.

Hated being told by primary school teachers that I had to talk 'properly' in the class all year then being told to put on this faux Scottish accent every year when Burns' night came around because it suited them. Then forced to stand in front of the class at high school and sing an absolutely awful song about some river that I'd never even heard of because they needed monkeys to perform at some singing contest in Caird Hall. Unfortunately I just couldn't make it on the day and got the belt from Fyffee for showing him up - by the way, Fyffee's belt was the only one at Kirkton that hurt.

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Pat Kane doesn't think Flower of Scotland is appropriate.
Writer and singer Pat Kane also backs the work of Robert Burns. He said: 'I hate "Flower of Scotland" -*it's martial, mournful, aggressive and anti-English. I would much prefer that the Scottish national anthem was Burns's 'A Man's A Man For 'a That'.13 Apr 2003

You’d never get with that now , a man’s a man would be classed as ***ist in todays world