Jo Swinson's strange accent

The wife watched The One Show on BBC1, which was followed by the Andrew Neil/Jo Swinson interview, so despite myself, I watched the first few minutes.

He asked the obvious question, "Would you agree to a second Indyref if the SNP demanded that in return for supporting a second referendum on Brexit?", which she resolutely refused to answer.

So far, so boring.

What was weird is that Ms Swindon has a Scottish accent most of the time, but she pronounced some words in proper Queen's English, in particular the word "vote".

Did anybody else notice this?
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UPDATE: prompted by Staffordshire Man's comment, I subjected myself to the first ten minutes again on BBC i-Player, and he's right. She pronounces words with long vowels (like 'campaign', 'time' or 'voting') not in Queen's English but in the Bristol/south west fashion, with the long vowels slightly too long. Short vowels are straight Scottish, using Andrew Neil as a comparison.

Yeah! Go Lib Dems!

Jo Swinson doesn't seem to grasp the logic behind LVT, she's mis-selling it, but good stuff nonetheless from The Daily Mail:

Ms Swinson told delegates:

"The Liberal Democrats are committed to supporting small businesses who are the engine of our economy. That's why the Liberal Democrats would scrap business rates and replace them with a commercial landowner levy. It will shift the burden from the tenant to the landlord so that we can breathe new life into our high streets... It is time for clear action that will give proper help to our small businesses."

Ripping up business rates was mooted by the party in August 2018 by the then leader Vince Cable in a report called Taxing Land, Not Investment. It made clear the levy would be paid by owners, not tenants, and that 'non-residential stamp duty should be scrapped to improve the efficiency of the commercial property market.

Ms Swinson added: "Let's remember what the issues are that we're trying to solve here - businesses on the high street have been struggling for many years now and they find the business rates can be a crippling cost and this is at a time when they're already having to deal with footfall falling, competition from online competitors where they aren't having to pay the same type of rates.

"So I think this is an important change, and clearly it being borne by landlords - some of that may well be passed on but we also recognise it will not all be - and this will provide a significant boost for businesses."

Well maybe Anna is right (see previous post for background)

From The Times

A Liberal Democrat minister needed emergency treatment in hospital after she suffered a severe allergic reaction to a biscuit.

Jo Swinson, the Equalities Minister and MP for East Dunbartonshire, was at a charity cake sale on Saturday when she unwittingly began eating a biscuit that contained nuts.

Her mouth began tingling and before long she went into anaphylactic shock...

I hate to be crude, but at the back of my mind I'm wondering, did she take the last biscuit and did all the males present suddenly stop giggling?

Please get all your ahem "interns" via approved methods like the Work Programme ...

as it has special rules to protect employers from visits by HMRC heavies acting on our instructions ...
  
Employment Minister Jo Swinson acts over 100 firms 'using unpaid interns' the Indie informs us, because Jo seeks to crack down on employers who are breaking the law by filling full-time positions, that would be subject to national minimum wage rules, with unpaid interns and the article ends with an especially wonderful quote from a BIS Departmental spokesperson ....

A spokesman for the Department of Business said: "The law on the National Minimum Wage is clear. If somebody on a work experience placement or internship is a worker under NMW legislation, then they are entitled to the minimum wage.     Internships can be a valuable way of helping young people get into work and realise their ambitions. Anyone who feels they are being exploited should contact the Pay and Work Rights Helpline. Their call will be fast-tracked to HMRC who actively investigate any claims of NMW abuse."

No doubt those manning the Pay and Work Rights Helpline have been given a handy crib sheet so they can weed out and send packing with a firm but friendly 

"it doesn't apply to you, **the organisation which is public spiritedly taking part in the Work Programme and giving you vital work experience at huge cost to themselves doesn't do that sort of thing, unless you are undertaking work experience with Homebase of course, seeing as they were stupid enough to let documents that admit that they do see work programme placements as a handy alternative to actually employing people and have reduced the number of full and part time staff working in some stores and substituted WP provided staff for them get into the public domain" 

to any misguided Work Programme participant, in particular those undertaking Mandatory Work Activity, who seeing the Indie article takes the BIS spokesperson's comment at face value before consulting the handy government web advice on the national-minimum-wage  where they will find workers on a government employment programme, eg the Work Programme aren't entitled to the national minimum wage.

** obviously everything after it doesn't apply to you wouldn't appear on the crib sheet, I was just idly referencing something that made its way into certain media outlets recently ....

Separated at birth?