Boris Johnson

[Gronnuck]

"Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation

... Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was "a good sort of gap".":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-55521732

Boris Johnson and the BBC have lost all credibility over this last year; Boris with his flim-flam, U-turns and incoherent ramblings; the BBC with its avoidance of reporting anything like the truth as experienced by ordinary people in their communities.
As for the “once in a generation” quote it as no relevance what-so-ever. It was a rhetorical flourish to encourage the people of Scotland to come out and vote, it was incredibly successful in getting 85% of the electorate to exercise their franchise. The quote was never recorded as part of the Smith Commission post-referendum Report.
In fact, the Smith Commission did report that, “It was also agreed that nothing in the Commission’s report prevented Scotland becoming an independent country in the future should it so choose.”
Andrew Marr is just another mediocre BBC hack who muddles along doing whatever people tell him to do through his earpiece.
If we’re honest we are never going to get any positive reporting of Scotland, its people and their ambitions emanating from the London-centric main stream media.

[aqua]

Andrew Marr may be many things, but I’d never describe him as a mediocre BBC hack.

[Fulmar]

Well, it was on the BBC that I first heard a report that recent polls now show that 58% of Scottish population sample who were asked are in favour of independence.
However, I agree that Boris has lost all credibility (and there never was any so far as I was concerned) as have all the rest of 'em down there! I was pleased to hear (again on the BBC) that polls suggest that if there was a GA tomorrow, the best the Tories could hope for would be a hung parliament and they are fast losing those who swung to them in the north of England last time around.
I think that people hear what they want to hear, whatever media they happen to listen to or read or whatever. I continue to learn a lot of good stuff from the BBC and will keep on tuning in and am now enjoying the new Attenborough Planet series.