Let joy be unbounded, because Scotland in Union's legendary propaganda poll is BACK - but it hasn't exactly produced the results they were banking on. Find out all the details in the video below.
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Celine Gottwald predicted this year's ago. And who listened? Or paid her the slightest scrap of valudation?
ReplyDeleteEnglebert Humpadinkle?
DeleteBut if Westminster refuses a referendum in any circumstances, what are the options left? Armed resistance like Ireland did to become Independent?
ReplyDeleteOf course not. You have to use scheduled elections to win an outright mandate for independence - that's the obvious option that the SNP leadership keep running away from (although in fairness Nicola Sturgeon did embrace it).
DeleteAnother excellent video analysis. The poll numbers are encouraging but it's a worry if they are interpreted as an affirmation of the Swinney plan.
ReplyDeleteSNP conference will support the amendments
DeleteThe so-called "Brit Card" would be a perfect opportunity for massive civil disobedience in Scotland. Thank you Starmer you complete dunce.
ReplyDeleteYou've just ruined IFS's weekend lol
ReplyDeleteThe unionists are content with the combination of labour, Lib Dem’s tories reform to keep Englands control so we should be content with pro independence parties giving us a mandate. It’s less complicated too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this. You've explained the strange leave/remain thing pretty well.
ReplyDeleteI agree WT. James does a good job here.
DeleteIt's got me thinking about clarity of referendum questions though. Presumably, if the question was Should Scotland be an independent country? you'd have to vote no if you wanted status similar to the Channel Islands.
Of course. Nobody I know of wants the status of the Channel Islands, so no probs.
DeleteI don't understand the Scottish Government objecting to digital ID. If the aim is to rejoin the EU after independence we will have to adopt it as it is now a requirement for member states. It won't help our case if we have a recent history of being against it.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who is very pro independence within the EU, I'm getting a bit fed up with John Swinney saying the opposite of what I hoped he would say.
Good luck with your "Brit cards for Indy" campaign, Iain.
DeletePersonally I think Swinney has got this one spot on, just for once.
If you google "is eu identity scheme voluntary" you get this with AI:
Delete"Yes, the European Digital Identity Wallet (EDIW) is voluntary for all citizens and residents, with robust protections against discrimination for those who choose not to use it. Under the new framework, Member States must make a digital identity wallet available by December 2026, but citizens and businesses are not required to use it. Access to public and private services will continue to be available through other means, ensuring no one is impeded from accessing opportunities if they opt out of the wallet."
I'm no lover of AI as it's only as clever as the humans who programmed it, but what I've seen elsewhere backs that up.
The EU ID Card scheme will be voluntary for its citizens, the UK one will be mandatory.
Swinney is right to oppose it.
Truth is, I don't really care what they call it if it helps prepare ourselves for EU membership.
DeleteThere's a very vocal part of the Indy movement who are quite childish about our association with the UK. Britnat, Butcher's apron, white settlers etc. It does us no favours when we are trying to forge a positive argument for independence which will very obviously need continued co operation with our biggest trading partner and hopefully a chance to join the EU.
I wish we would drop the rabid anti Brit thing. It's really cringe tbh.
If the aim is to rejoin the EU after independence we will have to adopt it as it is now a requirement for member states.
DeleteNews to me. Got a source?
I think you are mistaken on it being an entry requirement to join the EU. ID cards are national documents. You can access freedom of movement within the EU either with your passport or an appropriate ID card that contains the same metrics as a passport. However, there is no preference for one over the other.
DeleteCan't see how ID cards will prevent immigrants working. If the employer isn't asking for a NI number they aren't going to ask for an ID card.
Keaton. Do you have any authority to back up your claim, or is this another variation on the “currency” lie put out by unionists?
Delete"I wish we would drop the rabid anti Brit thing. It's really cringe tbh."
DeleteHi, KC. How's Nessie?
Keaton. Do you have any authority to back up your claim, or is this another variation on the “currency” lie put out by unionists?
DeleteI didn't make any claim. What are you on about?
A lot of debate about what should go into the SNP resolution at the October conference to be voted on and adopted and taken through to May 2026.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely none at all about bringing the SNP into the 21st Century, with One Member One Vote, electronically and remotely. Making it far more democratic, and accountable but vastly more importantly, flexible and reactive.
A resolution passed in October might be totally unfit for purpose in February 2026, and perhaps even need changing drastically 2 weeks before the election itself. See 2011 for that, with Salmond pushed to say he'd have a referendum in the second half of the term if elected.
Meanwhile Labour has and is crashing and burning, but with a new leader might fly again like the phoenix; Reform UK so far steadily increasing could disintegrate into a puddle of Farages, not a pretty sight; and the Corbyn Your Party could disappear or resurrect and attract huge swathes of left-wing voters. Or not.
And it's all happening in weeks, not annual flaming conferences.
React, think, create, change. react, think, create, change ... win.
And the decisions should be made by all members AFTER the conference remotely, not AT the conference - which is where different viewpoints should be heard and weighed by the dedicated conference goers which may include a lot of thinkers and builders.
ReplyDeleteAdapt or die.
I think banff iain is really a fisherman sailing with a jolly rodger and brit flag
ReplyDeleteMega Multilevel Regression with Poststratification poll from YouGov.
ReplyDeleteSample population 13,000, field work 24 - 27 Sept.
UK headline; RefUK set to form Government.
Seats: RefUK 311, Labour 144, LibDem 78, Con 45, SNP 37, Green 7, Plaid Cymru 6, Others 3.
Biggest shock is RefUK predicted to take five seats in Scotland. The three, border seats plus Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock, and Central Ayrshire.
Is this possible?
When an election is called, RefUK will gain saturation bandwidth on UK media. Any SNP leader would be challenged to get their message across. Swinney is a gray man with the media presence of a particularly ineffective junior accountant. Anything is possible
can you clarify what does the amendment propose? Majority of pro Independence parties seats or majority of list votes ?
ReplyDeleteMajority of pro independence party votes (as long as they also believe a man in a dress is a woman).
DeleteIt wouldn't surprise me if Scotland in Union descend to supporting Reform.
ReplyDeleteI see “there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq” Blair is being muted as a governor general by the Americans for GAZA. From memory one of Blair’s sons worked in Israel while another got another job helped by daddy with a US Senator. Better than fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan I suppose. Do I smell !!!! from an ex labour PM. Will he need his britID card to be employed?
ReplyDeleteMorgan McSweeny must be crapping himself I case Police Scotland put up a blue murder tent outside his sumptuous home during their investigation of financial fol-de-rols. Oh no... I forgot he's London Labour. No tent. No investigation. No problem for the Labour gentlemen's elite.
ReplyDeleteThe YouGov, MRP poll makes grim reading. The SNP are polling dreadfully in a whole gamut of urban and semi-urban constituencies across Scotland where the emergence of RefUK should have further fragmented the unionist vote and let the SNP win by default.
ReplyDeleteMid Dumbartonshire; not even close, LibDem 41%, SNP 20%.
Central Ayrshire; RefUK 29%, SNP 23%.
Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock; RefUK 30%, SNP 22%.
Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy; SNP 25%.
Dunfermline & Dollar; SNP 24%.
East Renfrewshire; SNP 21%.
East Kilbride & Strathaven; SNP 24%.
Hamilton & Clyde Valley; SNP 25%.
Lothian East; SNP 17%.
Is Sarwar supporting the britcard ?
ReplyDeleteFrom the Herald, defending the SNP not having one single motion about defence on the agenda for the SNP conference:
ReplyDelete'Dave Doogan, SNP defence spokesperson ... "Defence is reserved to Westminster and there is nothing quite as reserved as defence."'
This is not the Scottish Parliament Conference you fool, nor is it even the Scottish Government Conference. It is the SNP Conference, the SNP is a political party, and absolutely NOTHING is reserved to the SNP, nothing. Not defence, not the constitution, not the monarchy, not macro-economics. Nothing, nada, nihil, zilch. Hence easy opportunist headlines like this from our new (mostly stupid) Governor General:
"Douglas Alexander: SNP ‘can’t be trusted’ on defence"
https://archive.is/T9gYH
Stupidity on stilts, with blinkers on.