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Answering the call

  • Brian Taylor
  • 19 Mar 08, 05:11 PM

There is indeed to be a statement on the Foye case. As previously billed here, ministers weren’t hostile to the notion.

It was left to Bruce Crawford as Minister for Parliament to negotiate behind the scenes.

Pressed by the Tories, he announced a short time ago that the parliamentary business for next week will be changed to allow time for a statement by the justice secretary.

Good call. Parliament doesn’t just make the law. It ventilates popular concern about the application of the law and the penal system.

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  • 1.
  • At 05:47 PM on 19 Mar 2008,
  • djmac wrote:

Except of course, Brian, None of this applies to the Labour Party of Westminster in Scotland!!

'Good call. Parliament doesn’t just make the law. It ventilates popular concern about the application of the law and the penal system.'

Time is well overdue for BBC Scotland to ventilate the real frustration expressed on this board by ordinary voters completely fed-up with the Beeb Scotland's continuing pandering to the LPoWiS.

LPoWiS -
'Sic a parcel of rogues in a Nation'

  • 2.
  • At 08:14 PM on 19 Mar 2008,
  • L.Telfer wrote:

Its time we had a law to deal with those who allow early release or open prison access to people who are a danger to the public.Something on the lines of the laws that govern companies who operate unsafe working practices. Surely if a prisoner given early release kills again then those responsible for the early release should face a charge of corporate killing just as a commercial company would if it allowed an employee to die in it's employ through unsafe practice.

  • 3.
  • At 08:29 PM on 19 Mar 2008,
  • Tom wrote:

Do you people ever get a life?

Brian is blogging on an appalling, shocking crime that is rightly being talked about in parliament - if I was the girl's family, I'd want lawmakers to be learning lessons.

But do you cyber-nats really have to drag your paranoid obsession with the media hating the nats into every discussion? This is hardly the right story to be discussing your bizarre fixation on some kind of anti-nat conspiracy in the media.

You're ahead in the polls, salmond is riding high, and the media reports that. Get over it. Meanwhile, save this thread for discussion of what is a truly sickening crime, and the lessons that can be learnt, not your cyber-nat nonsense.

  • 4.
  • At 12:03 AM on 20 Mar 2008,
  • karin wrote:

To tom

tom what kind of life do you have that the irony of your comment escapes you. Yes rape is a terrible crime. So is burglary and murder. So are other crimes. Commenting on those or other matters does not detract from anyway that fact.

Its a political blog. So how is commenting on politcs of the scottish parliament rather than rape wrong or "paranoid" as you put it.

Rape is about one person forcing themselves on another because they fail to realise that other people are seperate from them and they do not have the right to force their selves on others.

Much like your veiws do. and brians. and the bbcs and the media.

  • 5.
  • At 06:08 AM on 20 Mar 2008,
  • Math Campbell wrote:

Djmac: please moderate your comments to the sensible and profound. You're giving us nationalists a bad name.

OK, sure, the BBC (although not, I would argue, the inestimable Brian Taylor) have a noticeable bias towards Labour on occasion, as well as a general bias towards London.
You know this.
We know this.
The BBC knows this.
Brian Taylor knows this.

Quit mentioning it every time Brian makes a post. Especially if said post has nothing in it to do with Labour (whether it be the Holyrood variety or their masters in London).
Particularly if said post is to do with a possible lapse in prison procedure (or a possibly dangerous procedure) that has resulted in the tragic and horrific rape of a wee girl. She doesn't need to hear your somewhat pathetic denunciations of Labour when we're talking about how the Prison Service screwed up.
Neither do we.

Or, perhaps I am taking the wrong approach in my chastisement of your comments. Perhaps instead I should take a leaf out of the renowned public speaker, Smeato.

"Ho! Big man! Gonnae shutit aye, or we'll set aboot ye?"

  • 6.
  • At 10:14 AM on 20 Mar 2008,
  • Stuart Leckie wrote:

Yes djmac, please self-moderate before people start looking at us Nats like we're all paranoid fringers rather than an established successful power.

Of course there was certainly a campaign by sections of the media against the SNP in May (as is their right barr the BBC), but this is no reason to hound on a man who has, as much as I have read and heard of him, never given me the dry boak of bias.

As for the post at hand, I cannot feel too much anger at the prison services for their convincing explanation, even if it did lack the political rhetoric that is appropriate after such a tragedy.

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