Brian Taylor's Big Debate

21 October 2011

Brian Taylor’s weekly Big Debate programme took place in Inverness today.

Questions covered the capture and death of Colonel Gaddafi, renewable energy schemes, the proposed single Scottish police force and homosexual marriage.  One contributor from the audience pointed out that the SNP consultation document on the re-definition of marriage does not even mention children in it.

Straw poll
Brian Taylor took a straw poll of the audience.  Only three people supported it and the overwhelming majority were against homosexual marriage.  Brian put his own spin on it.  His exact words were: “Pretty clearly against, by about two to one.”  Later in the day, in his news report from the conference, he said that he did not think that this issue would have the same political impact as Clause 28 did.  This is the impartial reporting we have come to expect in our society.  People are so afraid of the truth that they must spin against it.

The arguments advanced for a single police force were mainly economic, but there was scepticism that centralisation would deliver savings, and at what cost to local policing?

As the SNP Conference is in Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, the Big Debate was held in the Chapel Room of the Bishop’s Palace, at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness on 21/10/2011 at 12:15 p.m.

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