Monday 15 September 2014

After an amazing week in Scotland, I have today had my Yes windaes egged,

Glasgow's Buchanan Street, Saturday 13th September 2014
I can't quite believe this week in Scotland.

On Saturday in the central belt we had a thousand strong Yes Flash Mob take over Buchanan Street. This was reported on the BBC but only in passing and with pictures of a few YES people with signs from another place. This is what passes for honest broadcasting at BBC Scotland these days.

Edinburgh's Meadows, Sunday 14th September 2014
Also on Saturday we had the Orange Order march to preserve the Union in Edinburgh. The BBC reported this as if it were part of the grassroots of the Better Together campaign and gave it much greater prominence missing the fact that the OO is a sectarian organisation. Come to think of it I have never seen any Better Together grassroots in real life apart from yobs or the Orange Order so perhaps it wasn't far from the truth.

'A Night For Scotland' concert in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh. Sunday 14th September 2014
On Sunday we had the massive Yes March and rally in the Meadows in Edinburgh. This was followed by the 'A Night for Scotland' Yes concert in the Usher Hall in Lothian Road. Afterwards there were a few examples of violence towards Yes supporters, but when it was mentioned on BBC News the removed the bit about them being from Yes.

George Square, BBC Bias Protest, Sunday 14th September 2014
On the other side of the country in Glasgow we had the fifth BBC bias march that was much better attended than had been expected because of BBC News' Nick Robinson's blatant example of bias last week as is shown in the photographs. The first march that they have had started in George Square and finished at the BBC Scotland headquarters on Pacific Quay by the River Clyde.

I also did an internet trawl and discovered pictures which showed someone had climbed the Edinburgh Castle rock to put a Yes sign on it. It transpired that the person who had done it is extremely ill and wanted to protest about Gordon Brown's lies regarding treatment in the NHS in England should Scotland become independent, and therefore was wanting to encourage people to vote YES.

The Wallace Monument with its 'Saor Alba' sign, Sunday 14th September 2014

I discovered that the Wallace Monument has gone YES. This towers over the countryside that surrounds the fair city of Stirling.

I discovered Sannox Beach has gone YES.

And this evening I discovered that Glasgow's squinty Bridge has gone AYE! It becoming partisan follows the Duke of Wellington's statue in Royal Exchange Square going Yes in August.

Sannox Beach, Arran goes YES, Sunday 14th September 2014
However today I have had a second visit from the NO yobs. As I put a lock on my garden gate after the last visit, they would have had to climb over the fence to get in so didn't bother this time. My flat's front windows have become in one respect like Jim Murphy - they have been egged no doubt from the pavement outside the fence. But I don't think my windows will be like Jim Murphy and get blanket coverage from the BBC and other broadcasting media for days on end, do you?


Glasgow's Squinty Bridge over the Clyde goes AYE! Monday 15th September 2014

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