@Murchie Maybe they have advertised it as Newcastle Broon and the daft Geordies think its a free drink giveaway 🤔

Newcastle? Not sure talking to the folk on they Tyne is the answer, but okay 🙃

@Murchie Thats the BBC dirty tricks department at it again though !!

@Newburghgowfer What was the negative story? That it can't withstand flamethrowers on pallets? 😄😂 I remember The Sun (I think?) running with that story

@Murchie They said their was a 95% uptake BUT 5% didnt think it was a good idea by not taking them!! Why in hell would you even comment that 1 in 20 people didnt take them. Its always a snidey slant !!

+ScotGov I saw the article on shitscotlsnd news on the BBC. They rolled out this story and then came out with the most famous word on any good news in Scotland. And the magic word they always use is of course ' BUT' You can guarantee that they will always have a negative slant !!

Gee, you think? If only someone had said something before, eh readers?

@Newburghgowfer They don't get that being a socialist party subservient to a Tory government isn't really appealing to us

Worrying piece on Putin and his plans for the years ahead. Already protests in Belarus fearing relations between them and Russia are "too close". Russia's control of the flow of oil to Belarus may be squeezed, forcing them under Putin's control.

Shockingly not a word of this on the BBC. Which is bizarre given how anti-RT and Puting they are (although BBC Scotland is happy to mention them when painting SNP in a bad light)

Yesterday the Scottish Government published “Scotland’s Right to Choose“, its long heralded paper on the path to a new Independence referendum. It is a document riven by a basic intellectual flaw. It sets out in detail, and with helpful annexes, that Scotland is a historic nation with the absolute and inalienable right of self-determination, and […]The post London Will...

@Murchie Labour can't and won't change. The genetic make up of their members and followers are deluded. Their isn't 1socialist amongst them, full off people who are in it

New to this...bear with me!