UPDATE: Livestream from Independence Live added.
I am heading out now to Glasgow for today’s demonstration for Scottish Independence. I am hoping to speak at the rally, but am not quite sure at the moment if I will get to do that. If not, I shall just be one of the crowd, tramping along. If you recognise me, do say hello.
Over 20,000 people have indicated on Facebook that they are going, but I fully expect the BBC to ignore the event. They will be far too busy wandering around Glasgow, desperately searching for Tory voters they can vox pop.
Use of vox pops in this election has been deeply disturbing. They are a device under which the broadcasters can slip in views of the “ordinary man” which they might otherwise need to challenge. Just this morning Radio 4 Today had somebody calling Jeremy Corbyn a “communist” without contradiction. Last night Channel 4 News did a vox pop in Mansfield in which seven out of nine people interviewed were switching their vote from Labour to Tory. When I was in Merthyr Tydfil last week I was given an eye witness account of a Sky News team going around the town centre literally for an entire working day and finding only two people who were switching from Labour to Tory. Those two people were broadcast as the entire Merthyr Tydfil vox pop.
It is not only the broadcast media. The mainstream media do it too. Rabid unionist propagandist Severin Carrell of the Guardian managed to do a vox pop around Glasgow East constituency which did not find a single SNP voter (the SNP will probably get over 50% in Glasgow East) but did find Tories (they will definitely get under 15%).
The point of such vox pops is of course to convince voters that people like themselves are thinking a certain way, and perhaps they ought to follow. It also introduces further pro-Tory slant which does not count against one party’s equal time selection. What we know already from the opinion polls is that the vox pops the media have given us are massively unrepresentative of the population.
I have never yet spoken at any demonstration or event for Independence without some well-meaning people contacting me to warn me against the group organising the march. My view is that I will turn up pretty well anywhere and speak to anyone in support of Independence. I am not sure if I will get to speak today, and I have seen no indication of who the other speakers are. But I shall be there. I am getting so overweight lately I can bulk out the crowd quite a bit!
Go for it! And have a great day!
Good luck, You might meet Brian and should really have him with you for protection. Please bulk out some more and represent me as well, please…..;)
What would an Indyref2 campaign look like if a Lab/SNP alliance is formed? What if access to the EEA is a prospect of success? and what if the EU agrees to moderate free movement with a few doors one has to pass through?
I have realised that as long as we will watch what is presented to us on a screen, rather than see and hear with our own eyes what is happening, we will be manipulated by those who want to be in power.
The BBC and Sky have shown themselves up for what they really are during this elections, lick spittle and cap duffers to the establishment status quo. They will drag out any old caper to present us with another construct, make it grow in our heads and then, when it comes to the final few moments release some culminating messages.
Thanks to the internet this has been greatly reduced, but old habits die hard.
enjoy the march and I hope that you will get a word in edgeways, good luck and watch out.
Brian from the People’s Front of Judea?
Have a good day. I hope you get a chance to speak.
Don’t forget; Once Scotland gets its independence, please arrange to move the border south.
About 100mls would do me nicely.
Fallon will get the Scottish border vaporised and circulating round the planet before you can say Chernobyl.
Nice one Craig,
Can’t beat a good protest!
The Vox Pops ruse is nasty and underhanded. I don’t suppose they have any requirements to document the full sample of people they stop? Perhaps this needs addressing.
I also noticed the BBC ran a prominent front page feature about the ‘rise of the tory attack ads’ in the last few days. In it they neither praised nor criticised the campaign, (Which I suppose they will present as evidence of neutrality) but they curiously felt the need to show each and every example of the adverts, thus giving the tories free publicity and reaching a wider audience for free that their facebook campaign will have failed to reach. Perhaps because the tory ads featured lots of pictures of Corbyn looking sad or confused (wasn’t sure which it was supposed to be) then that will count towards their Labour representation tally..
Geoff,
Right from the start of this before electing JC the leadship the first time we knew if we got anywhere it wouldn’t be with the help of the media, tbh every stage of the way has been fraught with immense resistance – but it became clear from very early on that there was a real thirst for a genuine non-personality driven political movement.
Social media has been amazing but it’s only been a tiny fraction of the whole story, the intention of JC and momentum is literally to have this conversation face to face with just about every person in the uk. That takes grass roots like I’ve never seen before, every like minded person has wanted to get onboard and continue the national conversation. This is about people power in its truest sense – you cannot rely on the press. Luckily for us what we have discovered is that most people are absolutely sick to the back teeth of the media establishment – sick of them, more sick of them than they are politicians surprisingly – and that’s because people aren’t stupid they know they are being treated like fools. People aren’t asleep infront of their TVs like we want to think they’re desperate of for a way of communicating their fears and frustrations – that is what the Corbyn movement is doing – and it’s working – winning this election is irrelevant having an informed an powerful citizenry is the goal. It isn’t about the Labour Party and the five year personality contest it’s about standing up to the banks and powermongers and say ‘No you dont’
Good points!
Good news about Myrthr! Seems like the mainstream media have turned a vote for Corbyn into the new protest vote! Fools! Fancy giving people good cause to vote for the major opposition party! These toffs really are a cretinous bunch.
The BBC and other TV stations should not be allowed to conduct vox pops without an Ofcom rep present to ensure impartiality. For one thing it would mean fewer vox pops, which would be no bad thing. If the Ofcom official kept tabs on how many people were questioned and what their answers were then they would know if the editor’s choice was representative of the whole sample. It would prevent an editor being highly biased with their selection.
A senior Ofcom lady is currently at the Bilderberg event, apparently?
BBC executive board member Marcus Agius is also one of the guests. The Bilderberg Group seem to be particularly interested in British broadcasting this year for some reason.
Ofcom is no more than a toothless sop to the public, pretty much like all other ‘regulators.
The Chairwoman: Patricia Hodgson joined the BBC as a producer and founder-member of the distance learning team for the Open University. Between 1970 and 2000 she worked in a variety of positions, moving from production onto the executive Board. She served as a part-time Member of the Mergers and Monopolies Commission between 1993–99 and returned as a non-executive Member of the Competition Commission (the successor body) between 2004–11. From September 2000 to the end of 2003, Hodgson was Chief Executive of the Independent Television Commission and led the organisation into the integrated telecoms regulator, Ofcom. From 2006-12 she was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Hodgson’s non-executive roles include Director of GCapMedia plc (2004–06), member of the BBC Trust (2006–11), Chair of the Higher Education Regulation Review Group (2004–06), Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2005–11), Member of The Wellcome Trust (2004–08), Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life (2004–08) and of the Statistics Commission (2000–06). Upon leaving Newnham in 2012, she became Deputy Chair of Ofcom and Chair of the School Teachers’ Review Body.
The CEO: Sharon White worked for a church in Birmingham before joining the British civil service in 1989. She worked first at the Treasury and later for the British embassy in Washington which was also where she met her husband Robert Chote. She also worked at the 10 Downing Street policy unit during the Blair government, at the World Bank, and as a director general at the Department for International Development in 2003-9 and then at the Ministry of Justice in 2009-11, and also at the Department for Work and Pensions.
At the Treasury, she supervised a review of the financial management of government and the Treasury’s management response to the international financial crisis of 2007-08. She was Director General for Public Spending at the Treasury from 2012–13 and then replaced Tom Scholar as Second Permanent Secretary in 2013. She was the first black person to become a Permanent Secretary at the Treasury, and the second woman after Dame Anne Mueller in the 1980s.
In December 2014, it was announced that White would be the new chief executive of Ofcom from March 2015,
Her husband Robert Chote: In September 2010, he was appointed as chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility,, succeeding Sir Alan Budd. This appointment was subject to Parliamentary approval which was received. He started as Chairman on 4 October 2010. As of 2015, Chote was paid a salary of between £150,000 and £154,999 by the department, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.
Together, they are known as Mr and Mrs Treasury.
URGENT
Theresa May has been having major physical and mental health problems in the past few days. They are being kept quiet.
In last night’s BBC Question Time appearance, she was clearly wearing a HEALTH MONITOR on her right wrist. It is visible here. She is known to be a type 1 diabetic but she has never worn a monitor like this before.
WHAT WAS THE DEVICE MONITORING?
On Friday in Plymouth she was close to going completely ga-ga during a portside interview in Plymouth. She clearly cannot relate to the questions. This was in a different league from the evasiveness one expects from politicians. You can watch it here.
Earlier it was decided that she could not attend the leaders’ debate in Cambridge, prompting many to ask “Where’s Theresa?”
She is fighting this election on a platform of readiness to fire strategic nuclear warheads at foreign countries.
She called the election saying she didn’t want the next one to be held around the time of the conclusion of Brexit negotiations. That is absolute bullshit, because the negotiations will take until 2019 and the next election would have been a year later.
Could the real reason be that a major war is in preparation?
Thank you for informing us that the Prime Minister is both seriously ill (perhaps both physically and mentally) and is preparing a major war. Those thoughts had not, I must confess, crossed my mind and I’m sure readers will consider them very carefully before casting their vote.
That “health monitor” looks remarkably similar to the ghastly clunky bracelet she’s wearing in this picture:-
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/18/22/3664975F00000578-3696438-Britain_s_new_Prime_Minister_Theresa_May-m-33_1468877803218.jpg
Your whole post also looks remarkably similar to the ones that were circulated during the US election predicting that Hilary Clinton was either near death or on the verge of a breakdown.
I was mistaken: she has worn it before. She may have been under a lot of stress shortly after she was appointed, too. Did you watch the two video clips? The cover story in Plymouth was going to be that she’d missed an insulin injection. Most of the stories about Hillary Clinton were crazy or lies. Theresa May really is suffering from mental and physical health problems.
The straw you’re clutching is so broken and bent, you may be in danger of drowning in your own conspiracy sea.
Kempe,
Yes it’s funny but we’ve never really cared much about the state of the health of the prime minister! We seem to want them to explode! The Tories and the Blairites have been wasting a lot of money paying American PR companies who clearly haven’t a clue about the British.
I typed “health monitor bracelet” into google and none of the images looks anything like May’s bracelet. Isn’t it just a piece of chunky jewelry?
That’s what I thought as well. Like her wide stance it was something to make her look more substantial on TV.
I’ve no time for May but I don’t see why there couldn’t have a been lectern last night. It should be about policies, not a fitness test for people in their 60s in a warm studio.
Anyone who implements a cruel interrogation system that attacks people with disablilities in order to save money is going to find themselves spiritually challenged. Judge not lest ye be judged. Mrs May has no grip whatsoever on the basic Christian principles that underpin UK society. As such she is a spiritual wraith compared to Gandalf Corbyn. What Craig calls lack of emotional intelligence, I call lack of spiritual intelligence, viz a complete inability to relate to the world others live in or to see herself as others see her, i.e.. as belonging to the highly-priveleged cream of society. Tory = Mordor so far as I’m concerned.
That’s not a wrist monitor. It’s junk jewellery. If control of type 1 diabetes is a problem, then a patient would normally have an insulin pump fitted. The fact the PM is type 1 is totally irrelevant and she seems to control it well. Casting aspersions based on tin foil hat stupidity doesn’t contribute to the debate, it detracts from it. Rather than address the many policy issues that she seems unable to, attacks like this just let her off the hook.
“WHAT WAS THE DEVICE MONITORING?”
Blood temperature.
They had sunlamps waiting JIC. 🙂
Wave to Nicola as she goes over, she’s touring food banks in her austeritycopter.
https://twitter.com/PeterMurrell/status/870924358402940929
Well obviously companies like Scottish power wouldn’t use them to inspect their power lines if it wasn’t the most economical and efficient way of operating in Scotland.
Talking of which the Tories keep shot-circuiting the supply by the lie that Brown’s New Labour borrowed more than the Tories to keep the country going. Gordon Brown established the bedrock of family security with the Family Credit system, and got rewarded by having to deal successfully with the collapse of the Thatcherite de-regulated financial system. I know, he should have foreseen the problem.
Watching the Tories, who only got in through the remarkable act of treachery by Nick Clegg, trying to pay for their poisonous financial decay by desolating the pride and joy of the UK, the welfare system, and blatant racism, is turning extremely sour in the eyes of the UK electorate.
In the words of Hillary. We came , we saw, they got kicked out of No 10.
It could be worse, such a Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling sending out 100,000 letters to voters to ask them not to vote for the SNP.
Two Blairites pretending to be socialists, trying to hold back Scotland’s progress.
The helicopter is the quickest way to travel between constituencies, to counter unionist lying propaganda.
Followed the AUOB along Sauchiehall street, a good turn out, rumbles of thunder and a bit of rain just now, not much rain yet.
I think the issue of health is a fair question when it comes to running the day to day affairs of a country. It is not feasible that a person suffering from a disorientating mental instability be put to be in charge of nuclear weapons and if you have two persons who are susceptible to bouts of depression or such, then its time to review the state of health and calibre of leaders we put up to lead us.
thanks for flagging it up wristi, we were mulling about her absence for some days here.
Got a bone to pick with you sometime, nevermind. But Yes, I agree with you the pockets of Boris Johnson’s blue sports jacket with gold buttons is not the best place to store nuclear weapons.
Pick away Giyane, it is after all the order of the day.
“Surrounded by sycophants in the Rose Garden at the White House, he didn’t just proclaim his withdrawal from the climate agreement, he sowed the seeds of international conflict. His speech was a break from centuries of Enlightenment and rationality. The president presented his political statement as a nationalist manifesto of the most imbecilic variety. It couldn’t have been any worse.”
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trump-pulls-out-of-climate-deal-western-rift-deepens-a-1150486.html
Trumps sermon on the mound closed many doors and its enforced inward focus could easily erupt into much opposition from inside the US, not just some of Europe’s leaders, destabilising it economically and opening it up to draconian measures against its own population. Such internal strife might be used to project war abroad, running away from its problems, not a great prospect.
In Europe, we are relying on NATO to hold a line against what? we barely are keeping the lid on the Balkan cauldron, simmering away, whilst our NATo partner Turkey is buying oil from ISIS and channelling millions of people through its borders, people who are leaving their Heimat, fleeing from a plethora of jihadi terror groups toiling away, it must be good pay….., and from Assad.
The Prime Minister does not actually have a button she can press to start Armageddon. The person with the button is deep under the Atlantic and the circumstances under which he would be authorised to press it are in a sealed envelope locked in a safe.
Diabetes is an awful illness but when properly controlled does not detract from anyone’s abilities to function normally. A diabetic can get a job as a commercial airline pilot so why not Prime Minister.
FFS get your weight down, Craig. Or you’ll be in dock again.
I agree Craig. Man was made to walk and you have that beautiful great big outdoor just adjacent to you.
Thought can be a dangerous thing as I have to discover myself, time and again.
Diet-wise, try one simple change: No carbs after breakfast, ie protein + veggies (as much as you want).
I won a bet over Sevvy’s drivel.
When the Tory MP got charged with electoral fraud yesterday I bet a liberal-left(ish) English friend that the Guardian would have some drivel up about the SNP/ScotGov & financial “irregularities” within 2 hours.
Dear Sevvy didn’t disappoint so I’m £50 to the good & he’s wondering what to make of the so-called “liberal-left” paper he’s bought for years.
Thanks Sevvy, you’re SO predictable 😀
Fallon takes time off from bombing brown skinned people in Middle Eastern countries to step up as pro tem Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hammond seems to be in purdah,
‘Sir Michael Fallon said in the Daily Telegraph that there would be no rise in income tax for higher earners.
However, in his Telegraph interview, Sir Michael appeared to go further than Mrs May.
Sir Michael Fallon said high earners had nothing to worry about Image
He said voting Conservative was “the only way” people could be sure income tax would not be hiked.
Asked if high earners could confidently vote Conservative next week, safe in the knowledge that their income tax would not go up, Sir Michael said: “Yes. You’ve seen our record. We’re not in the business of punishing people for getting on, on the contrary we want people to keep more of their earnings. The only way they can be sure their taxes won’t rise is to vote Conservative. We already know your tax will go up if you vote Labour on Thursday.”‘
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40141470
I wish these forum-sliding repeat pieces from Sky and BBC would stop.
Is it the content that bothers you?
It’s the confirmation that everything other than the theft and the racism of the right is a sham.
I’m enjoying your posts Sharp ears 🙂
And here’s another. Excellent work, and thanks for your considerable efforts and expertise.
First Michael Fallon being touted as Chancellor and then Boris Johnson being assured his job as Foreign Secretary is safe. Either the Tories are supremely confident or they want to lose this election.
I think they may have a case of extreme tunnel vision, Tom. Extremely rich people in power since 2010, and to an unknown extent, drunk on it. Either that, or some of them know something that the vast majority of us don’t.
Meanwhile Willie Rennie the branch manager of the Libdems in Scotland, has referred to a second indyref in Scotland as divisive, however Rennie a well known hypocrite, has reiterated his bosses pledge to hold a second Brexit vote, but of course that isn’t in anyway divisive.
Is it Willie? Because it’s not a Scottish indyref.
Ros
First we got Ruth Davidson’s Candidates.
Now it’s Willie Rennie’s Hypocrites.
As Corbyn tries to pull the Labour party out of the mire down South. His Scottish branch manager’s councillors across Scotland have been partnering up with the Tories across many councils to keep the SNP out.
Such as in Aberdeen and West Lothian a Labour NEC spokesman, when asked if Labour approve such deals with the Tories, reverted to the usual BS speel about protecting services.
On the same point, I yesterday submitted a formal complaint about the use of a staggeringly one-sided vox pop following on from the QT leader’s debate broadcast on BBC news shortly after the debate itself. This is what I wrote:
The vox pop at the end of this show was overwhelmingly and brazenly biased. There were just four people selected. One declared himself a Tory activist. Another said she was a Ukip member. Two others were “undecided”. Those of undeclared political allegience had contributed to the studio debate as follows: one had charged Corbyn with not acting firmly enough in the case of alleged anti-semitism by Ken Livingstone; and the other challenged Corbyn on whether he would be prepared to “press the button”. Entirely absent were ANY members of the audience leaning towards Lib Dems, Greens, SNP, etc or, most glaringly of all, Labour. Likewise, no one was asked for their opinions on how either candidate answered questions on the NHS, social care, education, social inequality, or the elderly.
Looks like the GMP will announce on election eve that it has finally busted the LIIFfG’s 9/11 plot, triggered in the city for the whole UK
Plan to put May well over the top..
The bit I love is the Nissan Micra. Can you imagine James Bond reporting in to work in one of them? Desperate subliminal messaging by MI6’s BBC
Yet another Micra, if memory serves me well.
Just witnessed two older gentlemen arguing very loudly at the Ian Murray stand at the Meadows Festival in Edinburgh. Both said they supported Corbyn but only one was voting for Murray. The other is voting SNP because they will give Corbyn more support than “that bastard!” Good entertainment but not as good as the shinty match that has just started, also at the Meadows.
Good luck in Glasgow, Craig. Hope there is a good turnout.
“I fully expect the BBC to ignore the event.”
Why even say it, you know this so well. I sense ineptitude. You stop watching em. And moaning about em.
The SNP could do a lot it doesn’t. Why don’t you fight these policies?
I was just thinking ill go and have a look how long the SNP have been going. That long. Do I imagine they are not about themselves? That by now they haven’t got there finders in many pies? That should Scotland get the fabled “independence” they would somehow transform things?
I certainly would not bee a stroll….I think they acutely help divert energy from issues that could be worked on now. It’s like an ideologically classless battle in a class based society. Don’t politicians love those.
No, it’s never the politicians who do stuff for people, They exist within the system that IS….It’s the people. And I wonder how much the potential people see in it is do-able. And under the circumstance of an actual more comprehensive independence, your own currency? etc etc etc. Who’s going to do all that work? technocrats. And these people are going to do stuff that directly affects business they won etc?
Why should they? They have the power to do what they want. So why not force these issue on government whatever the state construction.
Whatever, my two cents. And I feel iv spent enough here as far as that goes. Laters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40143671
Sorry put my response to this post on wrong thread
Vox pops should be removed permanently from the broadcasters’ pallette of dishonest broad-brush painting. It’s not just the searching for confirmation bias, but the remarkably (and deliberately chosen) ignorant people routinely called upon to comment on the state of the nation.
While we are on the subject of bias, every single election I have voted in has a clipboard-bearing Tory posing as an election officer in the polling station and often right inside the area where people vote. They routinely ask voters who they voted for and put a tick by their name on a list, and in some cases ask this BEFORE people have voted. At the last local election someone actually said he was an “official”. I went back into the voting room and complained to the election officer who then ejected the man from the building. But when I went back with my partner so she could vote he was still there.
I will be a Presiding Officer during the General Election. The people you’re talking about are probably polling agents. Polling agents act on behalf of the candidates and have the right to enter and remain in the polling station and to observe voting. They can have a copy of the register of electors and note on it who has voted. They can wear a badge displaying the name of a candidate if they want. They should not be in a position that compromises the secrecy of the ballot, and they must not interfere with the voting process or campaign or canvass voters in the polling station. I think they are entitled to ask you how you voted – it’s a free country – but you are entitled to tell them to go to hell. I would regard asking you how you intend to vote inside the polling station as an interference with the voting process. If you are not satisfied with the way a Presiding Officer is dealing with the matter you can complain to the Returning Officer. J
Thanks for that useful info.
How on earth have you met the usual requirement for a Presiding Officer not have carried out any duties or work on behalf of a political party during the election – your posts here would clearly fall into that category.
Good luck! Have a great day! Dell us how did it go!
It’s very strange how the higher Labour’s poll numbers rise the larger the number of people TV and radio crews happen upon who are switching from Labour to Conservative!
The BBC tech crews are absolutely cheesed off with the bias – hence little in gags such as this;
https://www.thecanary.co/2017/06/02/red-faces-bbc/
[Mod: Tweet embedded]
“Election rigging in process”, luv it..!
Another issue regarding vox pops, radio phone-ins and discussions of all kinds involving members of the public is that even if the BBC are not being intentionally biased, they are open to infiltration by party member posing as members of the public, and even the security services.
The ‘switching from Labour to Tory’ theme has been going on for years. We never seem to hear about people disgusted with May’s handling for Brexit who are planning to vote Labour for the first time. That’s because the media don’t seem to be allowed to suggest Brexit might not happen.
Don’t know if anyone’s posted this already, but this is shameless!
https://mobile.twitter.com/roaringnurse/status/870965692224425985
What a complete turd (the Tory plant not the nurse who posted it obviously ?).
I still don’t buy into Craig’s ideas about massive BBC bias though. Listened to a great hour or so of back and forth debate this afternoon on R4 from members of the public, with every shade of opinion. I couldn’t see any bias or editing at all, it was great public service broadcasting imo.
Listened to radio and couldn’t SEE any bias. Nuff said.
That’s a bit feeble Hmm. Ok, hear any bias then. There were impassioned voices from all sides as far as I could tell, and the debate was very well moderated.
‘Any answers’ , with Anita Anand R4 earlier today :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rp3f6
I thought it was good.
This blog is just about the only place you’ll read that the BBC is biased towards the right. It’s pure propaganda. The reality is that the soft left BBC isn’t far enough to the left for the hard left. And anything to the right of the far left is deemed right-wing by the hard left.
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The BBC are biased to support whomever is in power. (so long as they don’t deek too far from the Overton window Craig is fond of)
They don’t support the establishment. They are the effing establishment.
Wow! good work Jim!
Cheers Bill! ?
Heavily edited video, taken completely out of context, used by the Tories to turn voters off Corbyn.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-slammed-fake-news-video-10551687
I recall the same vile tactics used by the unionist media and Better Together during the 2014 Scottish indyref.
And needs to be very strict rules from Ofcom regarding the abuse of the “Vox pop” practice
Ofcom is just another arm of the state; toothless as far as the electorate are concerned.
They refused to act over outrageous overcharging by 111 telecommunications companies, saying they’d ‘come under pressure’ not to interfere.
What pressure I wonder, bribes from below or threats from above?
Well that turned into a Mission. Where I live it’s 20 mins on the fast train to Glasgow Central, But the train was stopped at Paisley. as there was technical faults somewhere up ahead. off we get and onto another Train, bit illogical I thought, and right enough that train wasn’t moving either, the station staff Knew nothing about busses showing up.. WE did not even Know where the Local bus bay. Taxi driver gave info, then a bus driver gave info.. What a journey.. So 20 mins became 1 hour and 40 mins.
Worth it in the end though..Amazing turnout 20,000 of us.The tourists were Loving it. Great patter and speeches at Glasgow Green. the Lightning came on as we sheltered under a tree, I know Bad Idea, but I did ask her to lean Off the tree.
A Socialist speaker from Dundee ( didn’t catch his name but great speech..
” And I can assure you of this, If the Tories get in, You Better Not Become unemployed
You Better Not Get Sick
You Better not become Disabled
And You Better Not Grow Old ”
Here are some Videos I took –
We were about Half way in the Marchers.. Forward and Back Flags as far as the eye could SEA –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrEiliuR3VQ
Chants of ” Are You Watching bbc.. ARE YOU COUNTING BBC ” –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOHlm4x6ESc
Not sure but I think This is Anne McLaughlin SNP MP –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8IrbqUJHY&t=5s
I didn’t Know Craig was Going, Didn’t see him around amid the Sea of Flags n People.
That good human John Pilger speaks truths on Going Underground. Second half of the episode.
https://twitter.com/Underground_RT/status/871102441604960258
It is refreshing to listen to him.
I wonder is this true?
“BBC Editor asks writer Jake Painter of protest song, ‘Liar, Liar’ “not to go too heavy on the Tories”, before going on air.”
https://twitter.com/AshBeechey/status/870587548904681472
The polls are tightening, right enough…
I’m terrified.
Are you?
Here’s something else I just read:
(What is this now? A new terror-related poll bounce for Conservatives? – said someone I follow in Twitter)
London Bridge: ‘Van hits pedestrians’ in ‘major police incident’
http://www.itv.com/news/london/2017-06-03/london-bridge-closed-due-to-police-incident/
If I’m terrified, it’s the fear that Jeremy won’t win. The folks who call her Maybot have it dead right.