Salmond is getting desperate
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He's getting desperate now. I'll bet he will pay for them all as well to get there.
Up to 12,000 first time voters from across Scotland will fill Glasgow's SSE Hydro for a BBC One televised debate on independence.
The 11 September debate will give 16 and 17-year-olds the opportunity to air their views and question politicians.
Every secondary school in Scotland will be invited to take part.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27966132
Up to 12,000 first time voters from across Scotland will fill Glasgow's SSE Hydro for a BBC One televised debate on independence.
The 11 September debate will give 16 and 17-year-olds the opportunity to air their views and question politicians.
Every secondary school in Scotland will be invited to take part.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27966132
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Why is this a bad thing? Or even a desperate thing?
We should be crying out to get young people more involved in democracy. With the state of affairs we have now quite frankly we should be doing everything we can to engage 16 and 17 YO's, and even those younger still in secondary school.
After all, technically speaking they have longer left in this country than most people older than them, by the laws of life and death, so I don't understand why their views are discounted and ignored.
Good on the SNP wishing to reduce the voting age to 16, and for organising things like this.. for basically caring about and listening to the youth.. something the other parties haven't ever really done.
I am worried about the referendum because if independence happens my family will be feeling pretty desperate as the company my mum works for is most likely going to pull out of Scotland. She is 51 and finding another job won't be easy.
p.s Hi Woodbush hope you are well.
As there is no mention of involvement by Salmond, where do you get your hypothesis that Salmond is desperate? I would suggest it is not in fact Salmond that is desperate.....;-)
Unionists are absolutely obsessed with Salmond. They can't seem to understand that not every one supports the UK Government and so, rather than acknowledge that, they channel all their hatred and frustration into attacking the man they perceive as a threat. The fixation on Salmond would be amusing if it wasn't so creepy.
H'mmm.
As obsessed as Salmond himself is? ;-)
10/10 for denial.
What am I denying?
No idea, I've never met him.
There will be a lot of filtering for audience going by usual bbc practice too!
recent ones I'm aware of have been yes/no 46/54 & yes/no 48/52
--- that is once you eliminate the irrelevant don't know's which some pollsters are counting as no's!
And it's not a parliamentary/general/Scottish election so isn't about Salmond
I was looking at the YouGov poll from June 18. That appears to be the latest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/events/scotland-decides/poll-tracker
Why is it a bad thing, it certainly isn't a new thing? In the run up to the 1997 election Tony Blair attended a large Labour party rally at the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen attended by various party grandees and of course the media, I and about 20 other 6th year pupils from the city were given the opportunity to attend. I was sitting directly behind him and could be seen on the Nine O'Clock news.
What kind of filtering?
The thread title is rather odd btw. The initiative is coming from the BBC, not Salmond.
You are welcome to choose other measures if it makes you feel better. I was just looking at the latest.
Nothing to do with Salmond. What I'm beginning to find frightening in the extreme is this hatred that a certain section of society have to toward Salmond. It's almost sectarian. What role have the press and unionist politicians played in inflaming the hatred and bigotry towards an individual. How much responsibility do they have to take for the death threats received by Salmond? They are cultivating a climate of acceptable hatred towards one man. It's evil. I've yet to meet any of these people who hate Salmond who can actually articulate why they do without exposing themselves as completely uninformed and ignorant. It's sick.
I wonder if David Cameron is being pressed to distance himself from these trolls in the same way Salmond was when alleged "Cybernats" were attacking J. K. Rowling. After all, I've now seen comments reported that ranged from people claiming they wanted him to be thrown before a firing squad to one bizarre threat to rape him. As you say, this is sick stuff - and I do hope Police Scotland expend as much energy on tracking down these fools as they do tracking down Nationalist ones.
The response from the UK media is that abuse against Unionists is despicable while death threats against Salmond or Sturgeon aren't to be taken as seriously.
No you're not the one being dense.