‘I’ve been compared to Donald Trump’: how neighbour turned on neighbour over Scotland’s new national park | Scotland

by ewenmax

3 comments

  1. Hmm grassroots or astroturf?

    *But it’s the question of how this scrappy campaign won friends in high places that has raised eyebrows. An investigation published by the Ferret in December found that the NGNP website listed the email address of James Pringle Jack – a landowner and businessman who is the brother of Alister Jack, a former Scottish Conservative MP and ex-secretary of state for Scotland – as the contact on its privacy policy page. (This was changed once the Ferret began making inquiries.) The website itself was made by Corona IT Solutions, a company owned by Alister Jack’s daughter, Emily Ann, and her husband, Baron Sweerts De Landas Wyborgh. The campaign is also backed by Media House International, a public affairs firm run by Jack Irvine, the launch editor of the Scottish Sun and a former director of campaign communications for the Brexit party. (Other high-profile PR campaigns led by Irvine include businessman Brian Souter’s campaign against the repeal of section 28, the 1988 law that banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools as a “normal family relationship”, and the campaign against the introduction of low emissions zones in Scotland.)*

  2. Regardless of the merits of the park, it seems like there is a nearly uniform opposition to it. I dont see how it can go ahead. In general the NFUS being opposed to all new parks is going to make creating them impossible. All future national parks will be in rural, famr dominated areas. They need to be brought on board.

  3. I commented on this the other day

    The “brand” of he campaign, the many many online voices…

    All fake and paid for, so many of us were calling out the fake accounts and brand new bot accounts, they didn’t even bother to pretend with it all. Such a total fucking scam of a no campaign.

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