Blogosphere exclusive: John Inverdale, the BBC presenter fronting the Scotland v England Six Nations Rugby today, said a few moments ago on BBC1 that Christine Bleakley successfully managed to water-ski ‘across the whole of the British Channel’ yesterday.
Inverdale is an excellent presenter and I know he was ad-libbing rather than reading from a script, but come on. He’s at an England rugby match for crying out loud!
Seeing as the comment was made live in Edinburgh, perhaps conspiracy theorists will discover dark Scottish forces at work and learn that this was really a subliminal part of Gordon Brown’s big ‘Britishness’ campaign…
Joking aside, England still suffers from a disgraceful and unacceptable democratic deficit. Laws that only apply to England are made and voted through by MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The other three countries have their own devolved assemblies and parliaments to legislate on their domestic issues. It is only right that England should have its own Parliament to determine matters that only concern the English.
Autonomous Mind 
Hello AM. Inverdale’s comment only shows me how much the BBC bow to the demands of No 10.
I posted on the English question last month. You may be interested in the comments.
Do hope you don’t mind me giving the link.
http://subrosa-blonde.blogspot.com/2010/02/england-and-independence.html
Doubt that this was an error on Inverdale’s part – more like BBC political correctness, ‘a la Brussels’!
Scotland 15 Britain 15
John Inverdale can’t be that badly educated surely? What’s his game?