If a trick works once it's oftenwhiles worth repeating.

If a trick works once it's oftenwhiles worth repeating.

BBC Scotland as has been pointed out elsewhere are up to their usual shenanigans with misreporting the actual number of seats both the SNP and Labour have won since the last council election in 2007. The inference being that by lowering the additional SNP seats won and raising the number Labour  won, suggests they won the entire election. This would suggest that the State Broadcaster believe their consumers are too stupid to look at the overall seats won and the considerable victory for the SNP throughout Scotland.

However, what piqued my interest this morning is the front page of the Beebs Scotland website page. As you can see the headline below is factual. Then the article starts with the astonishing claim that both parties claim victory. Of more concern is the rolling imagery on the front page. There are 8 images that the user can scroll through. The many thumbed Labour victors in Glasgow have the first image.

Now contrast it with the second image in the slideshow. Does the image taken of Ms Sturgeon and her fellow SNP supporters suggest a victorious party that has just added 61 new councillors to their elected members bringing them up to a grand total of 424?   

++++++++++++++++++++++UPDATE+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

It's just been pointed out to me by the estimable Malcolm Osborne on Twitter that using the BBC figures, the pro independence parties are +63 and unionist parties are -40 councillors. A victory for the people then...


++++++++++++++++++YET ANOTHER UPDATE++++++++++++++++++

Ha ha, BBC Scotland's website has changed their SNP photo. The time amended suggests the page was altered a mere one hour after this blog was posted. Experience suggests otherwise. Oddly enough the photo has been labelled '_60053965_victorysnp' by their photo editor. Ooops.