The new GB-wide poll from Find Out Now has Labour at just 16% of the vote - lower than they ever fell at any time under Jeremy Corbyn's five years as leader. In this video I also bring you the Scottish subsample numbers, plus the full results from the latest GB-wide Techne poll. And before anyone screams at me about my shocking lack of knowledge, since recording the video I've looked up the word "techne" and now know what it means, although I'm still a bit hazy about its pronunciation. St Maurice's High School in Cumbernauld was, needless to say, pretty hot on Ancient Greek, so I must have been off sick that day.
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As always i find your blog interesting and have donated to the fundraiser. But, i maybe a luddite but i far prefer your written commentary to the videos
ReplyDeleteI'm not switching to video out of preference or to annoy anyone. I stuck to text content for seventeen years precisely because that *is* my preference, but the simple fact is that conventional blogging is no longer sustainable as a funding model. Prior to 2021, the annual fundraisers always hit their targets without any great fuss or difficulty, whereas since 2021 it's been an almighty struggle and I've had to keep plugging the fundraisers for months on end, while lurching from mini-crisis to mini-crisis. I can't keep doing that forever - if I'm going to continue in some form I need a more reliable funding model. The video idea may not work, in which case I'll try Substack or something similar.
DeleteSad to see the United Imperial Party at 34% then the wackos from RefUK on top of them. There's an awful lot of kooks around.
ReplyDeleteThis might be a bit left-field but I'm just thinking aloud on how to kick start the independence movement. The referendum thing is never going to happen. Watching the snooker gave me an idea on how to get the people of England to support Scottish independence. At major important events like snooker, darts, theatre shows, Wimbledon, the London parliament, opera house and so on we should form groups of activists to maskerade as members of the public and get into these events. At important points in the event when there is silence and tension one of the group should scream like the woman in the shower in Psycho. When that activist is removed, another one waits for the next dramatic moment and does the same. And so on, time after time. The English will become so pissed off they will demand their MPs to support independence. Its a moment in time.
ReplyDeleteCivil disobedience and generally pissing the public off worked brilliantly for Just Stop Oil if you define brilliantly as converting undecideds to actively oppose your views.
DeleteThanks. It would be great to draw up a list of events to scrwamcat.
DeleteI take it you are a really thick unionist trying to persuade Indy supporters to behave in ways that would alienate potential yes voters? There is no other explanation than that you are the most stupid person on the planet.
DeleteIn another tiny fragment of good news our "worse than useless" candidate for '26 has chosen to commit political suicide with the assistance of the loathsome Daily Mail. Nothing actually illegal but a complete inability to grasp the nature of political reality in our flawed world.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can replace him with someone for whom it is worth making the effort.
Hanging on to wee glimmers of light is important these days. Big push at SNP conference then into the '26 campaign - fingers crossed.
Alt Clut ... for those of us who wouldn't look at the Daily Mail even if we were paid to, who are you talking about?
DeleteAny idea who we're talking about here?
DeleteI guess it's Math Campbell-Sturgess being on a swingers' website. I'm genuinely baffled as to why that makes him unsuitable as a candidate, though admittedly he shouldn't have initially lied that it wasn't him.
DeleteRachael Hamilton says it's "urgent" that the SNP explain how this could have happened lmao
I'd say it's fairly urgent that hotelier Rachael 'Carve Her Name With Pride' Hamilton talk about the motivations behind her tax and employer NI behaviours.
DeletePolitical assassination through smear is sadly the landscape of our rotten political.system.
ReplyDeleteBut you do have to question the wisdom of some seeking election and today's article in the Mail is testimony to that.
But as the Mail points out the selection of candidates with a colourful sexual orientation and behaviours is not exactly a universal vote winner and raises questions about a party's selection process.
Maybe a good thing that this candidate has stood down now rather than during the campaign.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15118157/Swingers-profile-linked-SNP-Holyrood-hopeful-sparks-major-concerns-Nationalists-vetting-processes.html#
Rotten business or a reflection of the complexion of candidate qualities