Five times Scottish Nationalists bullied the media

#3. Here’s to you Mr Robinson

‘The BBC’s political editor during the Indyref era, Nick Robinson, compared protests against his fair and balanced coverage of the independence referendum to the treatment of media in Vladimir Putin’s Russia’, reported The Guardian.

The crime Mr Robinson committed? — raising the Royal Bank of Scotland’s contingency plans to relocate its HQ to London in the event of a vote for separation and questioning Alex Salmond on what impact this would have on the economy if Scotland voted Yes. In a classic move, Salmond didn’t answer the question and turned focus onto Robinson’s reporting. Result, a mob of flag-wavers outside the BBC’s offices in Pacific Quay.

Robinson himself hit out at “intimidation and bullying” (there’s that word again – bullying). 

Is there any other country in the liberal, democratic, Western world where a journalist can be hounded by a baying mob outside their place of work because they don’t like you doing your job properly. Welcome to Nationalist Scotland.