During last night’s (29/10) 'Most Haunted Live ' programme - set in Lancashire where there had been reports of a haunting by a Jacobite soldier - at approximately 23.12hrs a viewer named Billy from Ulster sent in a message which was shown across the bottom of the screen. It read as follows:
“I feel a Jacobite soldier called Big Jock knew the team were coming, he says it’s over and why don’t they go home.”
I personally found this to be highly offensive for the following reasons:
In Scotland there is a vile campaign to stain the name of a footballing legend due to his allegiance to Celtic FC. This campaing aimed at stating he knew about child molestation but did nothing about is wholly unfounded with no evidence whatsoever. So how does this fit into the above text? Well the campaign is titled Big Jock Knew.
Secondly but even more offensive to me as a Scots Irish man the section of the text relating specific to 'it's over and why don't they go home' is another campaign by the same type of individual aimed at the Irish community in Scotland. So how does this fit into the text? Well the campaign is titled 'The famine (relating specifically to the potato famine in Ireland) is over so why don't you go home.' Courts in Scotland have already deemed this to be both sectarian and racist and I find it astonishing that Living TV would allow such a thing to be shown on national TV.
I am outraged.
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