Diomhair-Secret - Scottish indepence and North Sea oil (2008)

Dìomhair - Secret The story of how successive Labour and Conservative governments up until the 1970s worked behind the scenes to discredit the Home Rule movement and the SNP - as revealed through once secret papers now available from official archives. The greatest concern inside the British government was of course the revenues from North Sea oil which would have probably been lost forever in the event of Scottish secession. From the programme: "For the past fifty years, Labour and Conservative governments have shared a common agenda - stopping Home Rulers and Scottish Nationalists from breaking up Britain and making Scotland independent. This programme will show you how both parties have resorted to spying and underhand tactics to discredit the SNP, its members and supporters. We will show you how official documents which supported independence were kept hidden. How politicians and civil servants tried to obstruct independence and keep the country united. In this programme we reveal how, in the past, civil servants, MI5 and Special Branch were used by Westminster to obstruct and even sabotage the Scottish nationalist movement." Broadcast on BBC ALBA (Gaelic channel, BBC Scotland) December 2008 Languages: spoken Gaelic & English, English hard subtitles Duration: 59 minutes XviD (25fps, 608x336), MP3 (LAME, 134kbs VBR)