tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post5629193362581651183..comments2023-10-10T13:31:24.972+00:00Comments on Waking Hereward: The LibDems - pedalling more lies and deception....Alfiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04135869751268396259noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7779136.post-73279445834390231292009-02-06T14:07:00.000+00:002009-02-06T14:07:00.000+00:00The media problem is simple.While the BBC and ITV ...The media problem is simple.<BR/><BR/>While the BBC and ITV provide a form of national news program for Scotland, Ireland and Wales, they only provide local news coverage for England.<BR/><BR/>For both ITV and the BBC, the main UK news also has to double as the English news in the same way as the UK Parliament also doubles as England's Parliament.<BR/><BR/>The problems occur when the news hacks and the news readers don't get the distinction between England and Britain though to be fair it can be difficult for them when politicians also mix up England and the UK either through ignorance or deliberately.<BR/><BR/>The question is why did Ming not acknowledge that education is a devolved matter in both NI and in Scotland?<BR/><BR/>I suspect it is deliberate. As a British nationalist the less he marks the differences between Scotland, NI and England the better.<BR/><BR/>Like his pal Brown he wants everyone to think of Britain as one unitary state not a collection of countries and provinces.<BR/><BR/>The same probably goes for the rest of them in the Lib-Dems who are hard line unionists especially in Scotland. Federalism is unionism, it just rearranges the internal government of the UK.DougtheDughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02952281599715356995noreply@blogger.com