Beeb's foray in Scotland

Alan Cochran is none too pleased about the BBC's foray into Scotland by way of the Politics show.


Writing in the Telegraph,he says that

It would be a gross exaggeration and wholly unfair to say that the BBC is a bigger threat to the maintenance of the United Kingdom in its present form than the Scottish National Party. However, the network part of yesterday's Politics Show had a pretty good stab at disproving those statements.

Adding that

In one of its rare forays north of the border, presumably to try and justify the "British" bit of its official title, the Beeb came up with two filmed reports which could only have served to mislead.

The report concerns the "myth" that the Scots are subsidized by the English tax payer

The report, designed we must assume primarily for English consumption, ignored totally the fact - explained at length in this and other newspapers some time ago - that if per capita spending in the English regions is examined, then Scotland comes out just ahead of both the North East and North West of England and actually below the total for London.