Comment posted Film distributor makes VisitScotland seem responsible for heavy-handed Brave move on local cinemas by Andy.
“Another attempt to force the seperation issue down our throats.”
I hadn’t realised that the SNP controlled the film industry in Scotland. They’re getting about, aren’t they. Appalling 
Recent comments by Andy
- Rustle with Russell
This personal vendetta against the SNP and Mike Russell in particular is getting a bit out of hand. I prefer balance in my news and don’t read many of the UK and Scottish press for that reason. I know that you don’t do balance, I read the editorial policy, but what began as an excellent website for news in Argyll has now descended into a vile anti-SNP rant worthy of Alan Reid, Brian Wilson or the Daily Record. I have decided to bail out and make up my own mind about the news I read rather than having somebody else’s view of it streamed into my living room. There are plenty of choices. I am sure that the editor of “Cowal Courier” has his own political views, but he keeps them to himself and scatters his criticism in any direction where this is necessary, not just at one target. That is the difference between a news website and a personal blog. I’ll pop in from time to time to see if balance has been restored but I won’t hold my breath. Goodbye! - An independent Scotland and the pound
Oil companies will work where there is money to be made. If they are happy to go into a war zone then a change of government and status in a peaceful country will not bother them in the slightest. - An independent Scotland and the pound
If the revenue from the oil has been invested wisely for the future, then there is not a problem. It is an opportunity for us to invest in the Scotland we want for our children and grandchildren, not for building huge projects in the south east of England or funding unemployment as has happened in the past.
But as it does begin to run out over the world, the price will rise, also oilfields which were previously uneconomic to develop will become more viable.
It is very sad that there are many (Unionists) like Mr Black who see the oil as a problem. It is a fantastic opportunity which only a few countries are given and we should grasp it with both hands.
The arguments used by the Better Together campaign are becoming increasingly bizarre and tortuous. The one thing they all have in common is an assumption that we are all like chidren and need to be led by the hand, that we are incapable of making our own decisions about our future.
I am still waiting for a Labour contributor to tell me when that party decided to do the Tories’ dirty work by leading their Better Together campaign for them. When did this Unionism become Labour policy? I’ll keep asking but I won’t hold my breath while I wait for a truthful answer. Labour don’t do truth. - An independent Scotland and the pound
Poor Scotland. Still being dragged down by all this oil. Will we ever be rid of it? - An independent Scotland and the pound
Why not? Everybody expects the SNP to answer many questions NOW about what happens after Independence, even though they may not form the first Government of an independent Scotland. Sauce for the goose?
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Do they have a legal right to make this demand?
Another attempt to force the seperation issue down our throats. Appalling.
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We imagine that distributors might have less a legal right than a commercial influence.
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“Another attempt to force the seperation issue down our throats.”
I hadn’t realised that the SNP controlled the film industry in Scotland. They’re getting about, aren’t they. Appalling
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That’s just silly. Do you really think that those in power at Disney Pixar are likely to be Scottish?
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I think the Nats. are getting desperate.
When the film was first promoted, earlier this year, I thought I would go to see it to try to spot the various bits of Scottish scenary. However, with all the ‘independence’ hype I have gone off the idea.
One thought that has struck me: I understand that funding for the seperation campaign has strick rules. The Scotland Yes bunch are claiming not to receive money from outside Scotland. However, could it be possible for a rich person, who is sympathetic to the Scotland Yes campaign and living outside the UK, to invest heavily in such a film and also have a say in its marketing and commercial influence?
Perhaps there is foreign funding for the Scotland Yes campaign afterall.
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Gosh! What diabolical lengths these Nats will go to: secret international funding of childrens’ film which will rock the (oh so steady) foundations of the UK state.
There are, however, a few problems with this scenario:
1: The film is aimed primarily at children (who don’t get a vote)
2: The film is aimed largely at international markets (who don’t get a vote)
3: At least one of the voice actors is an an avowed unionist (Billy Connelly)
I think the silly season has well and truly started in the Lowry household.
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Dr D – now you mustn’t let the facts get in the way of a nice spot of paranoia. BBC Radio 4′s morning story this week, about life in Ceausescu’s Romania, should be prescribed listening for some of the more paranoid contributors to this website – perhaps they dream wistfully of that sort of society.
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Paranoid I may well be, but I wonder if Newroom can find out if the same or similar communication has been sent out across the wider UK.
Of course, it will be argued that they are just trying to promote Scotland as a tourist destination – without wind turbines, of course.
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Lowry.
Paranoid? After your comment about underhand international funding for the ‘Yes’ campaign i think you should be. I’ve got a funny feeling that after reading it, a few folk will now be talking about you. Do you know that if you play the last Proclaimers album backwards, you can clearly hear them say ‘vote yes’ 5 or 6 times.
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When I was involved in the tourist industry (most of my thirty odd years in Argyll) the Scottish Tourist Board was considered useless except amongst themselves. Renamed Visit Scotland it’s just the same. All my friends still involved in the industry do not have a good word to say for them. Disband the overblown quango, it’s a waste of money and space.
Quote: ‘Why do you mainly advertise in English journals rather than Scottish ones?’ Because there’s 5 million people in Scotland and 56 million in the rest of the UK. They’re just blithering idiots.
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You have to laugh…We have a B & B in Oban and received a visitscotland email yesterday with a ‘very special invitation to attend a free screening of Brave’ and meet the one and only David Adams McGip (who? VS regional business director somebody?) in……Lochgilphead!!!
No recognition that our very own Oban Pheonix cinema is opening after two years with Brave and needs all the local support it can get so trying to lure people away is at best misguided.
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