Scottish taxpayers are contributing to UK unionist "sp

wisnaeme · Scottish taxpayers are contributing to UK unionist "sp

It is beyond doubt that much of the Scottish media has a biased unionist view of reporting, though there are some encouraging signs that it may not necessarily always continue to be so. I realize that one of the best ways to combat this insidious propaganda, particularily if it is the new Labour brand of unionism, as in the case of the Daily Retard is not to buy it.( Don't feed the beast or it will grow up, become huge and devour you syndrome ). But what if the Scottish taxpayer was compulsory contributing to the well being of the unionist new Labour media spin machine? Would you not be very angry if new Labour extorts money from yourself to fund it's spin? Money that should be funding our public services. This, if it is true, whatever the dubious legality of it is a blatant malfeasance of public funds. I don't need to be a political opponent of New Labour' unionist doctrine to be outraged at this abuse of the public purse, just being a UK taxpayer would give me sufficient cause to be upset. I wonder how many Monklands Hospital A and E's this amount of slush money would support and keep open? Nice to see New Labour has got it's priorities right in it's immoral pursuit of it's own self survival

Taxpayers are funding the wages of spin.

The government's addiction to "spin - the manipulation of information and publicity to achieve favourable press coverage - has become a distinguishing feature of Labour's tenure of office. One of the most profound sources of disillusionment with New Labour is the belief that it's entire approach to governing has been ruled by the priorities of public relations.
This obsession with appearance over reality - with what voters can be made to believe has happened, as opposed to what has actually occurred - has created a degree of distrust and cynicism in the electorate that is quite unprecedented in modern British political history.
While politicians have often been dishonest, especially in revelatory moments of personal scandal or professional incompetence, they have not previously been assumed to be systematically misleading as a matter of course. This is the first government in living memory that has made the capacity to deceive ( or at least to distort ) a measure of it's own professionalism: ministers are actually promoted on the basis of how successfully they have mastered the mysteries of illusion, diversion and concealment that constitutes the spin doctor's art.
In effect, the taxpaying voter, regardless of his own party allegiance, is subsidising the promotional activities of the party in power.
Amongst the Whitehall departments most heavily fortified with public relations spokesmen are those whose contentious policies might be thought to need assiduous handling: the Ministry of Defence ( 229 spin doctors ), the Department for Work and Pensions ( 181 ) and the Home Office ( 145 ). The distribution of press staff is, in other words, carefully calculated for political consequences.
this insidious culture of press manipulation has infiltrated virtually every institution in the public sector: museums, cultural institutions and community agencies have all learnt the formula. it will take a dedicated effort by any future government to avoid playing the same game.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/C...ble.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/08/30

I wonder what Mr brown's father, the right revernd would have thought of this State of Affairs and his dearly beloved son's part in it? Dare I suggest that if the revernd preached about such inequities from the pulpit would it not be a dereliction of his duty not to condemn this UK State of Affairs as " The wages of sin" instead of the wages of spin? Rolling Eyes

This very small article in the British persons rag may also compliment what has allready been published in the "Telewag".

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/p...cfm?id=1284742006&formatprint