Interesting Links for 11-04-2021

[andrewducker]

Prince Philip death: BBC and ITV viewing figures plummet amid wall-to-wall royal coverage

(tags:UK TV monarchy death )

Three Lessons from the First Scottish Campaign Polls

(tags:Scotland politics viaDanielDWilliam )

Here's the Alex Salmond Party spreading homophobic propaganda

(tags:LGBT OhForFucksSake Scotland politics )

Downing Street rewrote 'independent' report on race

(tags:racism UK fraud conservatives )

Comments

Alba

[danieldwilliam]

The Alba Party's attitude to aspects of gender and sexuality is a really interesting case study into planned vs emergent strategy.

But however it is arising it's putting me right off.

Re: Alba

[andrewducker]

You do not seem to be alone in this!

Re: Alba

[alithea]

Yeah, I expected the transphobia, I was most unpleasantly surprised by the branding of LGBT campaigners as pedophiles trying to lower the age of consent to 10. I shouldn't have been because folks who campaigned against section 28 have been saying it's all homophobia rebranded all along, but still, to witness people actually thinking that's true was something else.

[rangifer]

Well, the Alba Party is clearly discovering its niche. And that niche appears to be tragic and frustrating, if depressingly predictable. Since there's a Scottish Parliament election just around the corner, I'm assuming Salmond's people have recruited pretty much whoever they can to fill their ranks, and that a good number of them are now being completely insufferable in public as a consequence of being really eager but also really inexperienced?

I mean, I've got a distinct impression it's one of these parties again, so it'd be par for the course.

Re: Alba

[danieldwilliam]

Aye, it's a surprisingly regressive approach.

And unlikely to be popular.

It's a curious tactic.

[andrewducker]

They recruited multiple people who left the SNP because of their support for trans rights. They don't seem to have considered what frequently goes along with that...