When the Government ...

... desperately trying to think of ways to promote social cohesion, comes up with the (IMHO idiotic) idea of a loyalty oath, what broad cross-section of Brits do the BBC canvass for their views ?

A union leader, a republican pressure group (which I've never previously heard of), and a left-wing Labour peer.

(Oh, and something called "the Scottish Government" - Alex Salmond's rebranding of the legal entity called the Scottish Executive. There is still only one government in the United Kingdom, but there's an iron BBC law. When an organisation of which you approve rebrands itself, accept its self-redefinition uncritically, repeating and reinforcing it. I'm thinking of the "crime reduction charity" formerly known as the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders).