BBC Politics on Friday, reporting from the Welsh Senedd about rail strikes: “Here in Wales there is no rail strike – Transport for Wales is not in dispute with the RMT but affected by the RMT national strike.”
How is it that has never been reported that way in Scotland? “Here in Scotland there is no rail strike – Scotland not in dispute with the RMT – it is the Westminster Government that is in dispute with the RMT”?
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You will never hear that on Good Morning Scotland or from Unionist Glenn Campbell – he seems to have a duty to turn everything and anything into SNP bad and Scottish Government to blame.
But remember BBC is impartial – the difference in how events are reported in Scotland and elsewhere is getting nonsensical now.
Winifred McCartney
Paisley
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