Bbc is biased

Your editorial “Playing the victim card diminishes the SNP” (8 July) is simply naive in believing that the BBC was unbiased during the 2014 refmonarchs erendum. Among countless examples of anti-snp bias was Nick Robinson challenging Alex Salmond at an international press conference just before the vote.

Alex Salmond gave him a long and detailed answer as to why the SNP could be trusted with the economy. Nick Robinson’s now notorious report said: “He would not answer me.” A complete lie, which the BBC broadcast repeatedly.

Then, just before the voting day, in the so-called “purdah” period when political comment was supposed to be over, the BBC broadcast a live half-hour harangue by Gordon Brown in which he said that an independent Scotland would be thrown out of the EU, pensioners would lose their pensions, all business would flee and that Scottish transplant patients would be denied organ donors.

Again this was repeated, without any criticism, on every BBC news broadcast for two days, right up to polling day.

Douglas Fraser (the BBC’S economics reporter) tore up a copy of the SNP’S prospectus for independence, live on camera, and so on.

The BBC’S recent, brief and grudging admission that Scotland’s economy was not in recession followed days of dire warnings on every news broadcast that the SNP would be held responsible for the imaginary economic failure.

There are no BBC correspondents who have ever been accused of supporting independence. Plenty who clearly don’t. Perhaps they really believe they are unbiased but their whole culture is so dependent on a UK culture and London funding that they are simply unable see an alternative vision for Scotland.

JAMES DUNCAN Rattray Grove, Edinburgh