I'd say that rather than being balanced, it was heavily weighted with an anti barclay stance. There were no interviews with any 'normal' locals. Just the same old nimbys, who also -coincidentally?- run sark via chief pleas. All the interviewed have a history of being a, fiercely anti barclay and b, wanting 'their' island to stay the way 'they' want it. I do not for one minute condone the recent behaviour of SEM's, regards vineyards etc, and i feel that tearing up the fields behind the mill is just too much. However, as a balanced fair programme, Panorama failed. It did come across as if a personal issue was being explored. For those of us that know, the impeccable politeness of the 'head through the office door' bit was laughable. Also the fact that it is well known that mr sweeney and crew were noted using the street as a toilet and the man himself was spotted rather worse for wear, in charge of a bicycle. An expose on Sark and its government could easily be edited to make monsters of chief pleas. Very easily. But that wont happen. Before i sign of, to the inevitable calls of ' sem troll etc' , a big hand to the unwitting star of the programme. Kevin Delaneys bush stalker number one, Mr. Samuel Steenson! Take a bow sir :-)
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