Clip from BBC's "The One Show"
A Supermarket Price War – Independence Style
by G.A. Ponsonby
So they've managed it again. The pro-Union media have promoted a bare faced lie and gotten away with it.
The claim that supermarkets would increase prices in an independent Scotland was a piece of very clumsy and very transparent propaganda and should have been left languishing in the pages of the Financial Times.
Unfortunately Scotland is at the mercy of what surely has to be the most journalistically corrupt media in any developed nation.
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Supermarket prices may fall after independence!
by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp (09/12/2013)
The London centric media are at it again – chasing business people to make completely innocuous comments on independence and then twisting them out of context to create a negative headline but the story has no real credibility!
The Financial Times claimed today: “Scottish consumers will pay more for food if they vote for independence in next year’s referendum because Britain’s big supermarket chains plan to raise their prices north of the border, senior executives have warned”.
Let’s be absolutely clear: no supermarket has said that prices will rise in an independent Scotland. The FT headline is entirely inaccurate. In fact, it has been reported on the BBC website that:
“Neither Asda nor Morrisons said they had any plans to raise prices in an independent Scotland”. Meantime, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have distanced themselves from the report.
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