Opinium have consistently been the most Labour-friendly polling company since the general election, and would therefore have seemed the least likely to show an outright Reform lead, but it's happened anyway.
GB-wide voting intentions (Opinium, 30th April - 2nd May 2025):
Reform UK 27% (+1)
Labour 26% (-)
Conservatives 19% (-2)
Liberal Democrats 13% (+1)
Greens 9% (-)
Labour 26% (-)
Conservatives 19% (-2)
Liberal Democrats 13% (+1)
Greens 9% (-)
SNP 3% (-)
Plaid Cymru 1% (-)
Labour are merely on a joint post-election low with Opinium, but the Tories have moved into completely new territory. They haven't gone as low as 19% in any other Opinium poll since the general election, and in fact I can only find a couple of polls from other firms that have had them below 20%. That's consistent with them having dipped just in time for the local elections.
The fieldwork for the poll took place both before and after the local elections, but in practice given the way online polls work, it's likely that the vast majority of responses came in before the locals. A Survation poll from the same dates shows a similar trend, with Reform drawing level with Labour for the first time since the general election.
What will be eagerly awaited now is the first poll with fieldwork from entirely after the results of the locals and the Runcorn by-election were known. It would be surprising if it doesn't show some sort of snowball effect for Reform - but the question is just how big will that effect be.
Who will Alba expel next?
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) May 4, 2025
Betting odds:
Tommy Sheridan 5/2
Ash Regan 8/1
Robert Reid 12/1
Chris Cullen 14/1
Shannon Donoghue 18/1
Kenny MacAskill 25/1
Gareth Wardell 33/1
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh 50/1
Christina Hendry 66/1
No-one is safe...
Talking of Shannon Donoghue, she posted this incomprehensible gibberish this morning:
ReplyDelete"Some people make moves for the greater good.
Others make moves for themselves thinking it’s the best chance they have at being a candidate for the 2026 elections. Desperation is a funny old thing - puts instinct and intuition way off."
Anyone have a clue who she's prattling on about this time? Some of her feuds are so niche and obscure that there are probably only about six people who have a sodding clue what she's talking about.
She is really creepy
DeleteLet the music play
DeleteI dance in the dark for a better world. I am Gaza. I am George Brookes. I dance so that I can feel. I can't breathe. I dance so that can be. I can't breathe. Feed me.
ReplyDeleteWhat?
DeleteWho the hell's George Brookes?
DeleteIt's just Shannon seeking attention, using stupid fake names. Ignore her.
DeleteOK Cornholio,
DeleteThus Spake Zarathustra
DeleteSprach.
DeleteLabour and Tory voters in Scotland will move to Reform at next years Scottish elections make no mistake, because their obsession with preventing Scottish independence is even stronger than their party loyalty
ReplyDeleteVotes for various parties who say they support independence is pointless, pick the biggest party and vote for that
SNP is the only way to avoid Farage making his footprint in Scotland
I'm not even talking about independence because there can be no referendum offered, independence must be done another way
For now the mission is to keep Farage out of our country
I agree.
DeleteAny Scot voting for Reform next year is voting for a party who will target the very existence of our Scottish Parliament and decimate our much more humane social protections for the poorest, the handicapped and the most vulnerable, while making the elite even richer.
I can fully understand staunch unionists doing that, but any Indy Supporter even thinking about it needs their head examined.
Mind you there are those in Alba who would shut doon the Scottish Parliament.
DeleteTrue.
DeleteProbably less than 10
Delete3.14159265358979323846
DeleteRest assured Swinney will deliver with more Nutella and Bananas, get the kids on side and the Voters will follow.. Gary Glater (US Sentor) 1970's.
DeleteAnon at 8.02. Anyone voting reform in Scotland is a unionist.
Delete"For now the mission is to keep Farage out of our country"
ReplyDeleteWell to be blunt if Reform form the next UK gov, possibly with help from the small Conservative MP's and with support of the Liberals (Joe Swinson has not gone away.. she is just resting) they will likely introduce a new Scotland act.. and then it is really over for a generation and possibly a lot more.
The SNP was supposed to be broad church run by sensible, educated people with life experience outwith politics. It's not now. So unfortunately that broad church includes people with moderate conservative views.
In Scotland the higher tax banding is starting to hurt, we can see the wastage and feel that the additional tax burden is not delivering any tangible benefit.
This is caused by inexperienced SNP representation at Holyrood and by them pandering to the Greens. It's a plane as day they have made strategic mistakes in terms of oil and gas not least. Why on earth are we importing gas and oil at high cost when we have it just off our own shores?
So far we have not yet experience the the worst impact of illegal immigration in Scotland or Muslims voting as a block. But the Scottish voter can see the problems that are croppping up in the south and may well preempt by voting Reform in 2026 in quite large numbers.
I know you don't like this but there was a prominant article in the Daily Fail about how the Danes (very much left leaning) have clamped down on immigration and the banning the Burka.
Campbell from Wings has done his stint to in terms of what a woman is..looks like it all over bar the shouting for the radical trans movement. Recently he has just started to delve into immigration and Islam. Got to hand it to the lad.. he can see which way the wind is blowing.
A couple of years ago you would have to be brave to say you liked the Reform offering.. but now they are topping the polls folk are coming out and saying.. looks like it is now socially acceptable to at least talk about Reform.
The antidote may well be for the SNP to shift a bit to the right and smell the coffee. That at least could get some funds into their depleted bank account?
Do you have any views on British Summer Time? There's a golf club in Perth that's missing a bore.
DeleteI do actually. Many Scottish farmers run highly successful business' They are in tune with their markets.
DeleteYou comment just indicates how ignorant you are about modern farming practice. One of the SNP Representatives Jim Fairlie lives up the road from Dunning.. why don't you pop in for some advice to get you up to speed. Mind you he is a sensible chap so you may not like his response.
On the other hand there is Pete Wishart.. all the best in your search for knowledge.
Reform are an English Nationalist party and their is nothing remotely Scottish about them. Brexit screwed the farmers and the fishermen and Farage couldn't care less about the lies he told them.
DeleteIf he becomes PM we can look forward to eating hormone injected beef and chlorinated chicken.
Campbell support Reform? Well he is a right wing nut. Birds of a feather flock together and all that.
DeleteScots vote Reform in large numbers. You should do stand up comedy at the Fringe !
DeleteAnon Bam@8:57 Do you suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect?
DeleteYou mean Anon 8.21
DeleteAnon at 8.21 doesn’t live in Scotland, reads the Daily Mail and tells a lot of lies. Unionist troll.
DeleteVote SNP in both ballots - to build a better Scotland for all.
ReplyDeleteAgree. It is only by voting SNP that a better Scotland- more prosperous and more equal - can be obtained.
DeleteLOL
Delete🤣🤣🤣
But how?
ReplyDeleteThis is a good pole for the SNP.
ReplyDeleteFor some of the older contributers here. Remember when Labour we entrenched in Scotland. The bigotry, the nepotism, corruption.
ReplyDeleteScots wanted a change and voted for the SNP. My Mum, a lady labour voter from Perthshire (now 94) saw Sturgeon and thought she was the change needed. She ain't going to be voting SNP again.. hopefully she will last 2026!
"This is a good pole for the SNP." Just ask yourself.. how many people do you know that bother to register for the polling companies?
Most in Scotland are just not interested.. but they can see the pot holes, the ferries, Swinney trying to sex educate our kids, the added tax burden. The numerous failed and flawed SNP policies.. what happened to the computers for the kids?
Your average voter is starting to think.. the SNP can "FUCK OFF". Robin McAlpine from time to time has similar views so it not just the right that are realising the SNP are grifters. Labour have been a disaster. The only folk left standing are Reform and they have a clean skin and that advantage.
It's not a good pole result.. it's an establishment result your are looking at.
People are only paying attention to "the ferries" because it is never off the pages of the Unionist newspapers and the BBC and the best you can do is amplify it.
DeleteDo you actually support Independence?
I only ask because you definitely don't look as if you do when you have nothing better to do than attack the only party that can get us anywhere near becoming Independent.
Maybe that's another reason for not yet being Independent since first of all you need to convince people to want it and you don't do that by endlessly repeating the Unionist narrative about "the ferries".
The Scottish ferry scandal is the SNPs shame.
DeleteI think the High speed train fiasco is 100 times worse. At least the ferries will sail. No trains in England -sorry the north
DeleteThe reform scandal is Englands shame.
DeleteExactly.
DeletePole result ?
DeleteIce Pole, North Pole, who knows.
DeleteAnon at 8.21 back at 9.01. Unionist troll.
Delete"Reform are an English Nationalist party and their is nothing remotely Scottish about them. Brexit screwed the farmers and the fishermen and Farage couldn't care less about the lies he told them.
ReplyDeleteIf he becomes PM we can look forward to eating hormone injected beef and chlorinated chicken."
1/ Reform have a growing membership in Scotland.
2/ It was Boris that screwed the fishermen by pandering to Brexit.. by pandering to the wets.. but underlying that the big fishing licenses were held by EU fleets anyway. The SNP were about to give away the inshore licences that Islanders fought back against and the SNP caved in under duress from their own MP's.. but Nicola was droppping her drawers for the trans and greens at the time.
3/ But you eat farmed Salmon courtesy of the Danes and Norwegians already.
Pehaps you should take some time out to read more widely?
When I'm totally pished I think indy would be nice.. but when I wake up in the morning and look to see how our great leaders (Nicola, Humza, Swinney) are going to make the country a better place I say.. I'll vote Reform!
Aye OK thanks for conforming exactly where you stand and what you stand for.
DeleteTake a good look at yourself, In Scotland at least I think it is you that are "out of touch".
DeleteNo he or she isn't, they live here in the real Scotland not an echo chamber. Try getting out more.
DeleteYesindyref2: Are you talking about the Reform troll? If so, I have to inform you that you couldn't be more wrong if you tried. He doesn't live in any sort of Scotland, real or otherwise, he lives on the other side of the world and constantly boasts about it. That's why his most active times to post are around 1am or 2am.
DeleteAnd as for his notion that supporting genocide is some kind of mainstream position and that I'm out of touch for opposing it, well, all I can suggest is that he seeks help.
I'm looking at the post at at 8:21 PM, 9:01, 9:30, can't see the one I replied to because it's deleted. I don't agree with much of them, but there's a lot of people saying similar. Try the pub, the bus, the local Wetherspoons, in Morrisons or Tesco Aldi or Lidl. Or Poundland, Primark. Or just people in the street. And just listen.
DeleteActivists don't listen enough, they just talk AT people.
Well, if it's the deleted one, that was the Reform troll ranting in favour of genocide in Gaza as he does on an almost nightly basis. He's clearly an extremely wealthy individual who is lapping up the sun thousands of miles away. If you think he's typical of the man on the street, it's you who needs to get out more and listen.
DeleteYi2 can be very confused at times.
DeleteI do get out and listen. And it wasn't any rant about Gaza I was replying to, it was the post at 9:30 PM - and the dismissive reply to it.
DeleteYou don't have to agree with a posting to pay attention to it, and see if it represents a popular viewpoint. Clearly 1 in 7 people here in Scotland (NOT this forum) agree with some of it.
Anon at 11:09 PM
DeleteWhat you're fumbling at saying is that I post genuine opinions, whereas all you do is nibble at ankles because you're unable to form any opinions of your own.
Is anyone actually following this conversation? It's like two people have swapped identities.
DeleteThere are two Anons at 11:09. I'm the second one and forgot to click "Continue" after entering the name.
Deleteyesindyref2 often talks to himself
Delete" I'll vote Reform" Then visit your psychiatrist.
DeleteYIR2 caught out again posting anonymously and furiously trying to back track. It wisnae me oh wait it wis me. And owned lock stock and barrel yesterday by James and the day before by me. Oh dear. Just give up it will be so much easier on your mental health and well being. Wee soul.
DeleteEnough of this serious stuff. Has Dave Francis wanked himself to death? Hopefully not as he was a great advocate for INDY.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 9.38 pm ... do you often think about other men's private activities?
Deletehis prostate exploded from the pressure of the cucumber
Deletehe went as how he wanted
cucumber laced with calcium carbide can do that to you
DeleteHe's gone to buy more socks.
DeleteIf you ask any ordinary punter what they think of Reform UK, they won't be saying "Oooh, they're far right". And the chances are by now they know people who support Reform UK - people as ordinary as them or me. They might even know the candidate, just some normal punter. NOT far right, not a Nazi, not a Trump fan, just someone who lives in the town, area.
ReplyDeleteWhat you have is people who have lost trust in politicians - according some survey, half of women don't trust politicians. That's not about far right either, nor about Trump or whatever the echo chamber - any of them - throws out.
In 2011 Labour spent all their useless energy attacking the SNP and went from a comfortable lead in the polls to the SNP romping home with 67 seats - an overall majority that led to Indy Ref. The people of Scotland told Labour to stuff their negative campaign where the sun don't shine.
In 2024 the SNP were like "Throw out the Tories and send Starmer a message". Well, the electorate duly complied and told the SNP to stuff their negative campaign where - you guessed it. Just 30% voted SNP.
The SNP have already now set their campaign as "We must all gang up against Farage and Reform UK and the far right". Guess where the People of Scotland in 2026 will tell the SNP to stuff their negative campaign?
Do Reform support Independence for Scotland? If not they won't be getting my vote.
DeleteAnon at 10:59 PM
DeleteThat sort of thing would make people laugh "out there", though I'm sure it sounds good in an echo chamber somewhere.
And vote instead for Sarwar ?
DeleteIf the SNP don't make Independence front and centre, and in the campaign not just the manifesto in 2026, then 500,000 voters are likely not to bother voting at all.
DeleteThe 500,000 non voters can sit at hame and greet intae their porridge.
DeleteAnd the chances are by now they know people who support Reform UK - people as ordinary as them or me. They might even know the candidate, just some normal punter. NOT far right, not a Nazi, not a Trump fan, just someone who lives in the town, area
Delete"Far right" and "Nazi" are subjective to some extent, I guess, but I wonder what Reform candidates you're thinking of who are not fans of Trump
YIR2 at 10.17 ... maybe I'm atypical but I don't know a single person who supports Reform.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the polls around 1 in 7 people would vote Reform. I guess I know a lot of people "out there", I do business here in Scotland. Support for Reform UK could easily rise into the 20 percents or even more here - same as England. So many people are (fed up) with politics and politicians and want a change.
DeleteAlso worth keeping in mind: Reform haven't actually done much campaigning in Scotland, they don't even have a Scottish leader yet.
DeleteAre you in a care home? Start talking to some white Scottish teanagers "working class" or some trying to get a job to fund them to buy a first wee car and go to collage or uni without the help of the bank of MUm and Dad.
DeleteI shit you not Reform are all over social media, they are well funded. One of their policies is to give tax breaks to student nurses.. bloody appaling I say!
"tax breaks to student nurses"? How far right can you get!
DeleteSo 6 out of 7 won’t vote reform. That just leaves Yi2 to meet his pal in Largs wetherspoons!
DeleteAnon at 11:13PM
DeleteNot very good at this hero worship thing are you.
Student nurses don't earn enough to pay tax. They get a £5000 grant in England and £10000 in Scotland. Vote SNP.
DeleteWe know Reform UK are "well funded" who do you think is bankrolling them and giving them all they need?
DeleteClue - it's not the people struggling to pay the leccy or going to food banks.
YIR2 with his Daily Mail trope yet again. It’s daily now. Hand3d his arse by James and by me the day before. His lack of self awareness is staggering.
DeleteSpeak to tradies around Scotland, lot of them are up for Farage big time.
DeleteSince we all believe in democracy and the self determination of peoples under the UN charter :
ReplyDelete- should the midlands of england be allowed to secede from the UK and become an independent caliphate?
- and/or join with other nations, e.g. india/pakistan/bangladesh
if Bradford went to the Supreme Court looking for a section 30 to have a referendum, should it be allowed?
Will the mayors of these statelets become heads of state?
I think we all believe in democracy and so why should minorities of racist white english in these areas frustrate the democratic will of the people?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/maps/choropleth/identity/ethnic-group/ethnic-group-tb-6a/white
they might not quite have the numbers yet, but there will be another 10M by 2030 and their birthrates are superior, it is only right that this should happen.
white english will be allowed to live in these new countries, but they will have to pay the jizyah, naturally.
If not full independence, then semi autonomy, with dual systems for the courts, schools and multilingualism.
- seems fair to me and anything else would just be racist.
Now that england has gone the full-enoch, embracing the far right tism of national faragism, the creation of ethnic safe spaces and zones of peace, is the only way forward.
Silly boy.
DeleteNo, he's a sensible boy.
DeleteThe Highlands and Borders will eventually become regions of England by that same process. We Scots will seek refuge in the dirty, overcrowded central belt strip as a final place to plant our flag.
DeleteHe's a lonely boy.
DeleteCould I once again appeal to people not to use racist language, even in an ironic or satirical way. It leaves me no choice but to delete.
ReplyDeleteEnoch Powell was right.
ReplyDeleteNo, he was wrong on most things : economics, Northern Ireland, oh and the streets didn't flow with blood.
DeleteI agree and you only have to look at the evidence. But the question is how to we adapt and move forward.
DeleteTake yourself back.. remember when Mr Salmond was an MP fighting for INDY. Long before James Kelly poped up! He made economic evidenced based arguments.. in Westminster he made fools of them.
Jumping forward, Sturgeon came along and fucked it up and took everyone for a ride. Bloggers jumped on the band waggon.. one even got indy supporters to pay for a house!
The reality is that the SNP are not going to turn this around before 2026.. yes they may get a majority in Holyrood parliament.. but they will keep grifting off the back of indy supporter.s. James apparently left the SNP because he felt they were not doing enough.
Look closely.. the SNP have just turned into the old Labour party in Scotalnd, nepotism, political corruption. I have seen this in business.. you don't get certain jobs unless you are "a good SNP guy"
It's time to wake up and realise that the SNP as known are not fit for purpose. Remember when Ruth Davidson said " we are past the point of peak NAT".. harsh but she was right.
The hay days are over. It's time to grow up. Reform are offering an attractive alternative.. that is politics.. James has effectively killed off ALBA.. the SNP may be shitting their pants in case James shines his torch back on them which is why he left in the first place.
You are Nigel Farage and I claim my £5.
DeleteI am but you Jakey you went double or quites so it a tenner or a 1.0L botle of bucky your due ya NAT FUD. Or.. you could make a donation to charity..Try for Women Scotland..
DeleteOK Rev.
DeleteVery polite. “ oh quites”
DeleteKein Aufgeben!
ReplyDeleteBigotry here, 'biggotry' there, bigotry bloody everywhere..na na nana...
ReplyDeleteWe've gained notoriety and caused much anxiety.
DeleteI have no idea who you are or where you're from but you look extremist to me. I doubt you even know the meaning of the word "respect" why not start your own blog?
ReplyDeleteOh, and by the way, you are not "ripping the pish" you are behaving like a child without its dummy.
Reform Troll: You're too wordy, that's your problem, if you hadn't gone off on your little side-rant about Ms Donoghue, I might just possibly have left your comment up.
ReplyDeleteBut I will say that you need to brush up on your reading skills, on two counts. Firstly, no I do not claim to be the third most-read "Indy" blogger. The claim is broader than that - according to SimilarWeb, Scot Goes Pop is the third most-read political blog in Scotland of all types, regardless of views on independence. Secondly, I've directly answered your question on Gaza umpteen times, but it doesn't seem to compute with you because you dislike the answer. No, a small number of hostages does not justify the genocidal mass murder of tens of thousands of people. You think it does, and for that I'd suggest you do need psychiatric help.
Are you saying you're better informed than Tobias Elwood and Douglas Murray?
ReplyDeleteAnyone with an ounce of sanity is better informed than Douglas Murray.
DeleteYou really at not very good at this are you?
ReplyDeleteOnly by voting both votes SNP can a better and fairer Scotland be brought into fruition. Better on child poverty, better on LGBTQ, better on net zero, better on equality and justice for the marginalised.
ReplyDeleteLOL
DeleteCrap on Independence
DeleteAnon at 8.52 - Loyal Orange Lodge.
DeleteBoth votes SNP for a better Scotland.
ReplyDeleteLOL
DeleteThe best people to govern Scotland are the Scots themselves
DeleteOverseen by Farage, overseen by Trump. Without indy that is exactly where we are going.
DeleteBoth votes SNP for a continuing Union. Stronger for Starmer. Bracing for Farage.
ReplyDeleteZzzzzzzzzz
Deletethats the snp asleep on the job again
DeleteAlba will stop Reform, Ash will do a deal with them !
DeleteThe jocks will do as they're told. They always do. Slow but sure, they'll catch on.
ReplyDeleteIs it that all English-British nationalists are wankers, or that all wankers are English-British nationalists?
ReplyDeleteWhich is it?
racists like you are wankers
DeleteDinnae call oor Davey Francis a Brit!
DeleteThe current leadership of the SNP only want to win enough votes to stay in power in Holyrood but not enough to put them under any pressure to take action on independence. By any definition that is not an independence party.
ReplyDeleteSadly true.
DeleteI get that they like their ministerial lifestyles, and don’t give a toss about the party membership or the indy movement, that much makes sense to me. But what on earth is the draw to being saddled with Prime Minister Farage cutting, slashing, Section 35ing and ultimately abolishing them? Are they really so fixated on maintaining their position that they can’t see where it goes?
DeleteMind, you can say much the same for Starmer’s clique around him. What do they get out of it once Farage humps the lot of them, and us? What’s the hopeless game they’re all playing here?
Stark choice for us Scots next year.
ReplyDeleteEither we vote to empower English nationalist Reform, the biggest bunch of racist, fascist extreme right societal dregs event seen in one party outwith the nazis,
or we vote for a truly Scottish centre left party which is capable of defeating that bilge and is much more in tune with the vast majority of decent Scots.
And which is determined to take no action whatsoever to escape Farage’s grip on us as the UK prime minister.
Delete10.52 and a party, the SNP, that is determined to keep us jumping to the tune of politicians like Johnston Truss Sunak Starmer and probably Farage.
DeleteNever fear, Alba will stand up to them !
Delete10.56 and 11.23 ... total pish.
Delete@12:11 Swinney will UDI then? You think?
DeletePeter A Bell is the UDI man !
DeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteReform will very very quickly crash and burn in the 10 local authorities they now run and will be shown up as the useless bunch of chancers they really are.
Hopefully all level headed Scots will be able to see right through that rag tag collection of incompetents who are not even a genuine political party just a private company financed by extreme right American funds and who copy the actions of the most demented and fascist president ever to sit in the whitehouse..
A wheen ay Scots will play it safe and vote Reform as we aw see the mess socialists leave behind them.
ReplyDeleteA Daily Mail 'reader' supporter consults the Scots Dictionary.
DeleteDid you sweetie?
DeleteDid you Sourie ?
DeleteAnyways I'm almost getting to the point where, frankly my dear, I don't give a damn, and no wonder, but meantime Swinney is bringing forward his program for government to give a full year before the election, and even if there's nothing behind that in terms of Independence, I think it is a good strong move in itself:
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.is/Pca4K
There's still plenty of time till next January when he'd need to concentrate on Independence to win my vote, and that of the other 499,999 stay at home in anger, Independence voters who could give the SNP an overall majority like 2011.
But FFS John boy, drop the "far right" nonsense. The electorate will make its own mind up about Reform rUK - don't insult voters by treating them as thick as mince.
So voting Reform then yes? just your style
DeleteIfs -how depressing you are.
DeleteI see the thick flag troll unionists jump on any serious posting as usual.
DeleteWas there something about "stay at home in anger" you didn't understand, you feeble fake fools?
Anyone who votes Reform is thick as mince. They are cut from the same cloth as those who voted for Brexit and Boris Johnson. That worked out well for them !
DeleteYirf 2 thinks he's a serious poster, he's a pretentious big mouthed wnkr
Deletepretentious? moi?
DeleteIf independence voters stay at home - more fool them doing the huffy fluffy thing and putting us all at risk of losing Holyrood - and we NEED to hang onto Holyrood. Farage IS a big risk in Scotland. Swinney is right to warn about it. Farage has no scruples and don't imagine the Scottish unionist parties won't want to hide behind Farage if any of his lot get into Holyrood and put forward debates on whether Westminster should finally take over Holyrood. The other parties wouldn't have the guts to be seen to do that - but Farage will and they will gleefully fall in line behind him. He's a stalking horse for the takeover of Holyrood by hook or by crook.
DeleteIf independence voters can't be bothered to vote if independence doesn't seem to be coming fast enough for them - then their lack of logic and ignorance of the big picture could be the nail that blasts any potential for independence in the near future out the window.
But most Reform voters are as thick as f#cking mince.
ReplyDeleteAnybody that somehow thinks independence is a good idea isnae the sharpest tool in the box either.
DeleteSo, that would apply to our planet of almost entirely independent countries?
DeleteOr just to Scotland?
the english have been booted out of 65 countries
Deleteno one wanted them back
the EFTA countries, which are our peers and who should be our partners, are the richest and best countries on earth
look at what the little fucking english bastards anglo supremacist englanders took from you - ya moron
cuckolds like you should lose all you have for you deserve nothing
Anon@12:38pm,
DeleteWhat a sad , pathetic individual you are.
People like you are an embarrassment to Scotland.
People like 12:38pm are fakes and not very good ones
Delete12.03 you are a tool that has been thrown out the box for being as blunt as they come.
DeleteTo the poster who said Reform voters are thick as mince - you're not looking at the impact those voters are going to make. It doesn't matter WHO the voters are, it's the fact a disgruntled Yes movement turning full on anti-SNP has gifted him the opening he and Westminster has been waiting and praying for. Lucky lucky man. Timing is everything and he's in the door now. And as another poster says - it's not those who vote for him who are going to do the real damage to Scotland - it's the bucks people backing him and ready to move on business in Scotland as soon as any Reform UK enablers have a seat in Holyrood. It's the network opportunities to match up Holyrood with those already increasing their workforce in Queen Elizabeth House under the umbrella of your Secretary of State for Scotland and the furtherance of their 'Brand Scotland' global initiatives. Farage is the stalking horse enabler.
DeleteDid your “Big Nic” butt plug hurt you a bit? You know the one. It’s white with the face of some useless FM on the business end.
ReplyDeleteThe preoccupation of SNP Baaders and unionists with genitalia is noticeable. Sad wee pervos.
DeleteI blame Wings. They've got genitalia on the brain.
DeleteThe only 'good' aspect to come out of any Reform UK vote increasing in Scotland is that it will split the unionist vote.
ReplyDeleteInitially yes but long term? Look at how Farage came from a standing start in England. Why do you think Scots voters will be much different?
ReplyDeleteSame BBC, same oxygen for the fascist right.
DeleteReform will not have a long term.
DeleteThey are nothing more that an extreme right populist protest group with completely incoherent Trumpist so-called policies which would decimate the UK.
They will show this very clearly over the next year in their 10 local authories in England.
And the Scots will most definitely see it.
If Sturgeon had done what she was elected to do, promised to do, and had numerous opportunities to do we wouldn't have to be concerned with the rise of Reform in Scotland, frankly.
DeleteAnon at 1:04 - voters tend to be brighter in Scotland.
DeleteBlame Sturgeon, typical Alba
DeleteMc batty or just batty!
Delete4.52 well Sturgeon is to blame whether you like it or not.
DeleteSturgeon was stitched up from the minute those in the movement and those with personal grudges wanting to replace her with Cherry started their guerilla tactics against her. The movement ceased being a bona fide independence movement from that point on. There are always three sides to a story and its impressive, but not necessarily admirable, how so much desperate effort has been made to turn Sturgeon into a caricature in order to enable the many interests of others to platform themselves into favour with a deliberately targetted unbelievably malleable audience!
DeleteBut what if they make a good go of it? What then?
ReplyDeleteThey won't.
ReplyDeleteAnon at 3.18 You been hurt by the “Big Nic “ too? Could be a trading standards issue?
ReplyDeleteWere you born dumb or did you pay for lessons?
DeleteOnly by voting both votes SNP can a better Scotland be obtained.
ReplyDeleteOnly by voting for Kamala Harris can a better America be obtained.
DeleteAnon. 3.55 The Yanks didn't vote for Harris now they've ended up with a freakshow.
Delete3,50 only voting for independence can there be a better Scotland. Swinney is a devolutionist.
DeleteALBA Leader, KennyMac Askill, has today written to the leaders of the Scottish Greens, the SSP and the ISP, seeking their support for making the 2026 Holyrood Election Scotland's Independence Election.
ReplyDeleteThis follows a letter he sent to First Minister John Swinney on Saturday.
Regan will be livid. She’s in charge..
DeleteShe's in charge of her own house 😏
DeleteMacAskill sending letters - well that's good news, proves he can write - if he did it all by himself!
DeleteReform are riding in on the idea of 'change'.
ReplyDeleteLabour recently did that and already, if there was another GE tomorrow, Labour would be kicked out.
Reform will suffer exactly the same fate as Labour, in the ten English councils they now run.
Long before next year's Scottish election, all of Reform's stupidities and incompetence will be there for us Scots to see.
We won't vote for Farage's Freekshow after watching that.
A majority won’t vote for the SNP either.
DeleteLets be honest though: When was the last time you paid attention to how well a Council you didn't live in were doing? Never mind English Councils.
DeleteFarage's mob running 10 councils is big news and their performance will also be big news.
DeleteNo chance of it slipping under the radar when they f#vk up.
And they will.
Unless the councils ends up like Birmingham no one will give a shit. Hell most people don't even care about what's happening in Birmingham atm.
DeleteYIR2 called me a thick flag troll unionist, but I'm not thick. Please James tell him to stop being nasty to me.
ReplyDeleteGood grief, a funny fake. Folies Bergère Rodney!
DeleteHumour is good btl here though, maybe part of why it's number 3.
It's you YIR2 nobody likes you because you're a full of yourself big mouthed pratt
DeleteDr Jim at 10:13
DeleteYou do have a sad life
ReplyDeleteSturgeon did exactly what she was supposed to, she wasn't spending 24 hours per day working against independence like Salmond the devo max man
ReplyDeleteEggsactly. As soon as the numbers went up for Sturgeon, in came Salmond with Alba and the aim to replace Sturgeon with Cherry. The fear was that it looked as if Sturgeon was likely to take independence forward and Eck felt that was only his ballgame. One of his aides outlined the level of jealousy and said that Salmond would gobble up all of Scotland, ruin his SNP party and legacy and bring the independence house down in order to stop her.
DeleteWhere is that little pipsqueak David Francis. Is he still at his ballroom dancing.
DeleteWe remember Project Unicorn Dawn, Nicola Sturgeon rode a genetically engineered unicorn named “Mandatia” through a wormhole beneath Holyrood, emerging in a parallel Scotland where independence had already happened.
DeleteShe returned with a glowing haggis inscribed with a quantum referendum result, but it could only be read under moonlight and in Middle Scots. Westminster refused to acknowledge it, citing a lack of postal votes from Atlantis.
I mean if we're writing fiction we might as well get creative with it!
Shouldn’t have bothered.
DeleteI meant VE Day of course.
ReplyDeletewas the british empre worse than nazism?
ReplyDeleteby about a factor of 20
hitler loved the british empire, he was a fan - he saw the english as fellow germans
D Day celebrations?
ReplyDeleteV E Day commemorations.
ReplyDeleteHow about Gandhi?
ReplyDeleteOswald Mosley?
DeleteWhy? What did you do ? SFA. Tosser.
ReplyDeleteHow about the Irish, Poles, Czechs, Norwegian, Maltese, French, Danish Dutch and Belgian Resistance. Don't think they like being called Brits
ReplyDeleteold man couldn't care about VE celebrations as he was in the Pacific theatre of war.
ReplyDeleteBrave man.
DeleteAnon@10:27,
ReplyDeleteAn absolute cretin.
Is George Galloway bald?
ReplyDeleteWho ?
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