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**Hugh** · 17-03-2014, 10:48

The SNP are very unhappy with Andrew Marr daring to suggest on his programme there may be others with a different viewpoint to theirs.....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...ependence.html

Quote:

The row broke out during an increasingly testy interview on Sunday morning on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show during which Mr Salmond repeated his claim an independent Scotland would start life in the EU.

After the presenter suggested otherwise, the First Minister reacted with outrage and harangued the presenter as to whether this was the “Andrew Marr analysis” or the corporation’s point of view.

But Mr Marr referred to an interview he conducted last month with Jose Manuel Barroso in which the European Commission President said it would be “extremely difficult, if not impossible” for a separate Scotland to join the EU.

He told Mr Salmond that Mr Barroso had been “absolutely adamant in private and in public on the sofa” and that he claimed to be speaking for “many other” European leaders.....

.....Mr Wishart took to the social networking website Twitter to state the interview was “the worst” the BBC has done on independence and Mr Marr “should just get his Better Together T-shirt out”.
The SNP broadcasting spokesman praised Mr Salmond for being “very restrained” but added: “Think there’ll be consequences for Marr.”....

.....A BBC spokesman said: "Andrew himself made it clear on air that he had not been intending to express a personal opinion or that of the BBC, but was simply putting forward an argument from President Barroso who, as European Commission President, has an integral insight within the debate....