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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
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Episode 748
Season 1
Bottling it?
The Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) seems to have replaced ferries as this week's SNP/Scottish Government "disaster" across the media.
Industry representatives plus erstwhile MSP Fergus Ewing were allowed free rein on the Sunday Show to attack it and with no government representative on hand to defend the proposals it was an open goal for opponents.
We look at the scheme and how similar ones operate across Europe, but Lesley asks if there are problems with its efficient implementation. Are these being used yet another Scotland "too wee, too poor, too stupid" line of attack?
Meanwhile Stewart McDonald has set yet another hare coursing in the de facto referendum debate with his paper calling for the next General Election to be used that but another mandate to request a Section 30 order. Suffice to say we're not overly impressed with this.
Sir John Curtice, the pollster of pollsters, has suggested that focusing on the process and problems of gaining independence rather than what the shape of an independent Scotland would look like is a failure in strategy. Lesley has long argued that fighting the war on that terrain is falling into a unionist trap and she explores this not just in the podcast but in her soon to be published new book Thrive.
Finally, we try and figure out why, in the light of a recent couple of polls, Scandinavians think they have more in common with England than Scotland. Surprisingly, part of the answer might be the fitba.
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Industry representatives plus erstwhile MSP Fergus Ewing were allowed free rein on the Sunday Show to attack it and with no government representative on hand to defend the proposals it was an open goal for opponents.
We look at the scheme and how similar ones operate across Europe, but Lesley asks if there are problems with its efficient implementation. Are these being used yet another Scotland "too wee, too poor, too stupid" line of attack?
Meanwhile Stewart McDonald has set yet another hare coursing in the de facto referendum debate with his paper calling for the next General Election to be used that but another mandate to request a Section 30 order. Suffice to say we're not overly impressed with this.
Sir John Curtice, the pollster of pollsters, has suggested that focusing on the process and problems of gaining independence rather than what the shape of an independent Scotland would look like is a failure in strategy. Lesley has long argued that fighting the war on that terrain is falling into a unionist trap and she explores this not just in the podcast but in her soon to be published new book Thrive.
Finally, we try and figure out why, in the light of a recent couple of polls, Scandinavians think they have more in common with England than Scotland. Surprisingly, part of the answer might be the fitba.