More Comic Cuts from the Daily Record

More scaremongering drivel from the Daily Record today I am afraid. Today's edition of the paper carried an article "The Salmond Broadcasting Corportation" based around the ludicrous claims made by Tessa Jowell. You would think that given it was Ms Jowell who has presided over a balooning of the costs of the 2012 London Olympic Games would have meant that any of her claims might have been treated with caution. But let's remember that Tessa is Labour, and that means that even when she mumps her gums you can rely on the Record to print her claims as the truth.

Tessa Jowell's claim is that because the TV license costs around £250 in Iceland then somehow it will cost £250 in an independent Scotland. Eh? Where is the logic in this claim? In what way can anyone reasonably claim that because the license costs so much in one country it would somehow automatically cost that much in another? Do you realise that Iceland has glaciers too? Does Tessa Jowell argue that once we become independent Scotland will be afflicted with these as well? That is the extension of her warped logic. Such a claim is virtually as ludicrous as the one she has made.

This bizarre outburst was reputedly accompanied by Tessa's claim that "high quality Scottish dramas, such as Monarch of the Glen, would be left on the scrapheap" with independence. This will be the same programme that has been chucked onto the scrapheap by the BBC already will it?

She also went on to say that programmes such as Eastenders and Doctor Who would no longer be readily available in Scotland. Interesting that, given that in the Republic of Ireland you can actually watch the BBC as one of their main channels and watch Eastenders and Doctor Who as easily as someone in London can. Why would it be any different for Scotland?

The fact of the matter is in actual fact that of the £250million plus that Scots pay in license fees at the moment, only some £161million is provided to BBC Scotland. This almost £90million gap indicates that in reality a seperately run independent Scottish broadcaster would have more money to spend on programming than BBC Scotland has at present. Far from threatening the quality of programmes we can have in Scotland, independence means we can invest in improving them.

If you fancy a laugh then go to the following link to read the nonsense being spouted in today's Record:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=the-salmond-broadcasting-corporation&method=full&objectid=18623572&siteid=66633-name_page.html